If the Mets want the back page of the New York Post, they can have it.

Met fans will continue to root for the Mets and Yankee fans will continue to root for the Yankees.  The self-absorbed media will tell you who you're supposed to root for:

"But we may also look back, someday very soon, and discover he was the line of delineation where our baseball market started making a market correction. There are a lot of Yankees fans who support A-Rod. There seem to be more, many more, who are disgusted, appalled and altogether disillusioned this is where the Yankees are with 49 games left in their season:

A bearded lady of a baseball team."

A what?


"Now it is right and it’s fair Yankees fans want to believe in the magic of the uniform and the length of the season, believe all it will take to get from where they are to where they want to be is two weeks of terrific baseball. Look at the Braves, look at the Tigers, look at the Dodgers, none of whom ever lose. Look at the Royals! A few weeks ago their (apparently) doomed general manager, Dayton Moore, said anything was possible even winning 15 out of 20. They’ve won 15 out of 19.

It can happen."

I don't think many fans believe the Yankees are going to make the playoffs this year.

The last two months of the season will therefore generate less excitement and less emotional and financial commitment from the fans.  Still doesn't mean the Yankee fans all going to Citi Field instead.


"It’s a Yankees town in 2013, yes. But it was a Yankees town in 1963, too, and then it wasn’t. It was a Yankees town in 1983, and then it wasn’t. Nothing is forever in our town except for this: we do love ourselves some winners. Neither side qualifies right now. Soon enough, one of them will.

Which one?"

I read somewhere how the Mets are catching up to the Yankees for 2013 bragging rights.  Which is an insult to the definition of the word "brag" when neither team looks like they're even going to finish the season with a .500 winning percentage.


Not to be perpetually optimistic, but I also wouldn't discount the Yankees' ability to get out of the 2013 death spiral in the near future. 

If you follow the beat writers, the Mets have supposedly been taking over New York City baseball for the past 15 years.  They're not writing, they're rooting.