Failing until you win
Morning Dose: Thursday, June 11
☀️ Good Morning:
I was 11 years old, or about the age my youngest daughter is now.
It was sunny outside. I distinctly remember that.
I was sitting in the living room with my uncle.
I was naive enough to believe in anything.
Down 3–1 in the series? A 15-point Game-7 deficit? This Knicks team was different. This Knicks team was finally going to be the one to get over the top.
The moment was coming.
Patrick Ewing from the elbow. Curl. Drive. An easy layup. And then:
Off the back rim and out.
I couldn’t help but think of that moment when OG Anunoby miraculously tipped in a Jalen Brunson miss to complete the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history.
It turned out to be the same ball. The one that spun out of an all-time great’s hands took thirty years to finally come down.
Ewing put it up. Anunoby brought it home.
All of the pain. All of the losing. All of the close finishes and failures that happened in between. None of it was wasted. They were all part of this arc. Because without them, you couldn’t possibly feel the way you did last night. The feeling that it was all worth it.
One more hill to climb, baby!
We can only hope this proves illustrious for the Mets one day.
📉 DEEP DIVE
GROUPING TALENT
We are in unprecedented times, with just ten companies representing roughly 40% of the entire S&P 500. Three companies are about to go public at a valuation expected to exceed $3 trillion, or enough to pay every player’s salary nearly 500 times over.
No, you didn’t accidentally open Morning Brew.
I was thinking about this in terms of how baseball teams concentrate talent, and how the Mets were supposed to be a club with elite star power augmented by role players and youth. David Stearns, the shrewd portfolio manager, taking advantage of the mega-cap rise while identifying hidden value in distressed assets and overlooked growth stocks.
That was the vision. Clearly, it hasn’t worked out that way.
On another morning we are forced to ignore the previous night’s ugliness, let’s unpack how the Mets’ roster compares to other teams in terms of WAR.
