NEW YORK -- Terry Collins met with his New York Mets Daniel Murphy Womens Jersey following their dispiriting Game 2 loss in Kansas City and did what any manager would do when confronted with circumstances as dire as his: He lied. Never a win-one-for-the-skipper type, Collins kept it short and semi-sweet. This is what he said Thursday that he told his team the night before: Only these Mets have never been down 0-2 in a World Series (or any postseason series for that matter), so they don't know if they can come back because, you know, they've never done it before. They can't remember what to do because they have no near-identical experience to draw from (Game 5 in Los Angeles was a dicey one, but the World Series it was not). That pretty much leaves the Mets with the "let's get after it" part of Collins' charge. Let's get after it? Yeah, that Tyler Thornburg Authentic Jersey the Mets can do. And here's the sunnier side of the monumental challenge they face starting Friday night in Game 3: The Mets still have a chance to prove they are not merely a good-to-very-good team touched by stardust that ultimately ran into superior hitters who make contact more often than your local tavern's high-arc softball team. These Mets can still prove they are special, and worthy of standing among the most memorable sports champions this city has ever known. There's no need to rewind your memories all the way back to 1986, when the Mets were down 0-2 to the Red Sox and yet swaggered into Fenway Park embracing two articles of unmitigated faith: 1. The Mets remained convinced they were the more talented team. 2. The Mets knew they were paired against a haunted franchise likely to encounter another ghost or three before the exorcism was complete. As the 2015 Mets have no such belief Kurt Suzuki Authentic Jersey after watching what Kansas City hitters did to Jacob deGrom, and as today's Kansas City Royals don't carry around the kind of heavy legacy luggage that weighed down yesterday's Red Sox, the better local story to rally around is the one authored by the 1996 Yankees, the last World Series team to lose the first two games before landing in a parade. The Yankees were crushed at home by a combined score of 16-1 in Games 1 and 2, and by an opponent more formidable than the Royals. The Atlanta Braves were defending champs, and as they headed back to Atlanta, one side of their plane was talking about a dynasty, and the other side was talking about a sweep. David Cone, the Yankees' Game 3 starter, was enraged upon hearing exaggerated reports from a clubhouse guy that the Braves were all but laughing at the Yanks. Joe Torre then looked a bit like Terry Collins now; he was a likable, thrice-fired lifer who was about to get plenty of pats on the back for finishing second in his first World Series. Only Torre had already made a private http://www.officialathleticsshop.com/authentic-9-reggie-jackson-jersey.html prediction that put Joe Namath's very public one to shame. After Game 1, Torre promised his employer, Boss Steinbrenner, that the Yanks would lose Game 2 to Greg Maddux (that's right, lose Game 2), before sweeping three in Atlanta and then beating Maddux in the Bronx in Game 6.