October never felt so cold.

Despite a recently expanded postseason, New York did not field a playoff team for the first time in nine years. Since the Yankees’ most recent trip to the World Series, more than half of MLB teams (16) have been to the Fall Classic. Following the Yankees’ worst season in 31 years, the most successful franchise in American sports will establish its longest drought without a pennant in more than a century. The Mets finished with the fourth-worst record in the National League (75-87) after building the most expensive roster. It is now 37 years since the Mets traveled down the Canyon of Heroes.

New York has claimed more than 29 percent of all World Series titles — and produced 14 Subway Series — with four franchises combining to win 33 championships. Even dating back to the founding of the National League (1876), New York has endured only one drought without a champion longer than the current stretch. In two years, the Mets and Yankees may match it.

The present is unfulfilling. The future is uninspiring.