Multiple Grimaces, including the genuine one, plus Mr. and Mrs. Met, Candelita, Frank the Tank and other a sorted Mets-themed celebrities are living it up in Queens these days, luxuriating in baseballs best story and, for now, maybe its best team, too. The Mets are hot, maybe just hot enough to keep this blue and orange celebration alive. Theres , and the way things are going, it may last awhile. They may not yet be the hot ticket among the Big Apple glitterati (though superfan Frank is super popular today), but they are undeniably the hot team, the team that puts on the best show and, at least lately, the team that prevails. In this season of unparalleled parity, a rare year with no 100-game winner, where the Dodgers pitching looks decimated, the Yankees started October in underwhelming fashion and the Phillies seem le s than themselves since the All-Star break, the Mets po se s the most precious thing in sports. And that is a real chance. Mets fans are embracing the OMG of it all. Robert Sabo for NY Post Two years running, the No. 6 seed in the National League has somehow played its way into the World Series. A couple years ago it was this Phillies team, who had the misfortune to face the Astros, who were tough and clutch, and didnt need to cheat, it turned out. Then last year it was the Diamondbacks, who ran into a team even hotter than Connor Overton Jersey them, a Texas Rangers squad that didnt lose one game on the road. They, too, entered as a wild card, but rode the hot bats of Corey Seager and Adolis Garcia to their first-ever World Series title. More From Jon Heyman That Rangers team won only 90 games, the Diamondbacks 84. Theres no reason the Mets, winners of 89 games, cant go that way now. That po sibility seemed nutty even to me when I wrote on May 18 that they should make the playoffs. I was just figuring they were in the top 40 percent of teams, not that they could actually challenge the Yankees, Orioles, Dodgers or Phillies. I was just using common sense, which is out the window come October, it seems. We certainly are a long way from the beginning of the season, back when the Mets started 0-5 and stumbled to 22-33, back when folks were wondering if Francisco Lindor was worth his $341 million contract (he may be worth it just for this year alone!), back when Jorge Lopez was firing his glove into the crowd and the Mets were looking like clear deadline sellers. Mets fans with their rally towels when the New York Mets played the Philadelphia Phillies in their NLDS Game 3 matchup. Robert Sabo for NY Post Comedian Jerry Seinfeld cheers on with his fellow Mets fans. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post The Mets, not just their B-and-C-list celebs, are having fun now. There are ever-present OMG signs, the that star slugger Pete Alonso seems to treat like a pet and more. Weve got a lot going on. But weve got to keep the main thing the main thing, which is to go out and play baseball, manager Carlos Mendoza said. Things change in a hurry in baseball, and in this case, everything changed for the better. Mendoza, a revelation of a manager, made the key change, moving Lindor to leadoff, where he quickly turned into a legit MVP candidate (before Shohei Ohtani showed hes superhuman, anyway). Mark Vientos replaced Brett Baty at third base, and showed hes every bit as good as he thought, maybe even better. Jose Iglesias (stage name Candelita) came up, hit like Luis Arraez, solidified an excellent infield and shed a tough clubhouse reputation, , upbeat demeanor and clutch hits. The Mets, a team with a technical $341 million payroll (that includes the Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander and James McCann mistakes), got themselves quite a bargain in Iggy at $1.5 million. Fans celebrate after the New York Mets defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3of the NLDS. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con This team has a special thing going. Never before has any team played four straight postseason games where the club trailing into the eighth inning won the game, Sarah Langs reported. The Mets did that. Their 13 runs in the eighth and ninth innings through six playoff games is the second most ever, behind the 1936 Yankees, who had 16. Follow The Posts coverage of the Mets playoff run: The Phillies look like world-beaters on paper, and on the field, and they were inarguably better for a majority of the regular season, too. But the Mets now, whether they want to admit it or not. I asked Vientos and Brandon Nimmo if they believe in those things. Vientos said no, but Nimmo copped to momentum being real. A young fan waves his towel during the sixth inning of Game 3. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Its not about luck, its about a hot team getting hotter at the right time. Something specials going on when you keep winning games after trailing late while facing the games better closers. They throttled star Braves closer Raisel Iglesias, obliterated star Brewers closer Devin Williams and made the Phillies bullpen one of the better ones in the game look worse than their own. Oh, and at least one A-list celeb showed up in Queens, Keiths good friend Jerry Seinfeld, an honest-to-goodne s fan who must see the Mets are doing the opposite of whats historically expected of them. No reason to air any grievances now; this is an October thats most definitely not about nothing. Ross Detwiler Jersey