Mike Lupica gushes poetically on July 2: "Jeter had gotten hurt making this amazing play at the corner of the left-field stands, where the stands meet the third-base line. ... Jeter like a wide receiver running over the middle in traffic, putting his glove up at the last second, catching the ball because he always does, and then disappearing into the Stadium.
He came up with a cut under his eye and a hurt shoulder. And the ball."
Mike Lupica is unimpressed on July 4: "I can't quite tell from reading the papers the last few days, did the captain of the Yankees make a superb, fearless play to win a ballgame, or get us out of Iraq? ... We still don't have to cover it like he carried people out of a burning building."
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Lupica also suspects that the Mets are about to take over the "town." He understands NY baseball history better than you. Except he doesn't seem to understand that Yankee fans aren't going anywhere when the team is winning 100 games and making the playoffs every season. Attendance of 4 million might be one clue.
In a way, I'm relieved the Yankees were swept by the Mets. That wasn't so bad, was it? The Impossible Most Awful Thing finally occurred and the Yankees are still 7 1/2 games up in the AL East, George won't panic, Yankee fans aren't going to suddenly turn into Met fans. In October, it will all be irrelevant and forgotten. That's not sour grapes or arrogance, it's just reality. Mets fans won bragging rights, I'd rather win the pennant. Next year, will anybody still think try to believe that the Mets vs. Yankees are "big games"? More important than any other 6 games out of 162?
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