They say you can’t win the World Series in December, January or February. That’s what they say, anyway. 

I say: If the Dodgers don’t win it all this year — and they are historically heavy favorites — then the spend-heavy, hard-hitting Mets just might. 

If the Mets do become champs, they won it in Steve Cohen’s ultra-modern Beverly Hills abode, his West Boca retreat, and also Pete Alonso’s private hideaway club in Tampa. They won in a winter of private powwows bookended by two big signings, giving the Mets arguably baseball’s best lineup — and a helluva lot more than a random October chance. 

The early winter talks that culminated with Juan Soto’s decision to move 9 ³/₄ miles to the south and east resulted in the biggest sports contract ever, some very hard feelings among Yankee fans who never envisioned anyone of this exalted ilk leaving them (and certainly not for the Mets!), and a slight change in status among our two teams.