You have seen it a hundred times, often enough to write the dialogue yourself. Here, the doctor pauses.
Tension suffocates the moment.
And, well, here we are. The New York Mets delivered the first half of the bad news last night with all the subtlety of crosstown traffic in the late afternoon. The Mets made it back to the World Series for the first time since 1986 by throttling the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-0. And now we wait. The Yankees play tonight, one win away from fulfilling a New York baseball dream of another Subway Series, a local dream and a national sporting nightmare.