NEW YORK — Have you ever seen a city turn so fast on its Messiah?
Granted, America's favorite pastime is building up its heroes to obscene proportions and then tearing them down.
But have you ever seen sports fanatics and columnists summarily back flip so savagely on a sports divinity for prematurely ending a season fraught with majestic expectations with three straight losses and not "suitably" squirm or shrivel when interrogated by the outraged or "appropriately" accept full responsibility?