Last year, at this time.

Understand what's really happening when the weird pro-Mets media pushes this angle:

"When was the last time in the big bad city we could have a reasonable conversation about the following question:

Who’s going to win more games this season, the Yankees or the Mets?"

The 2014 Yankees won 84 games. The 2014 Mets won 79 games. The difference is only 5.

The 2014 Yankees were outscored by 11 runs. The 2014 Mets outscored their opponents by 11 runs. SABRE-metrically speaking, the Mets are already better.

The Yankees only scored 4 more runs than the Mets last season. The Yankees playing at Yankee Stadium instead of CitiField. The Yankees with a DH batting instead of a pitcher batting.

If you weren't having this "Mets vs. Yankees" Race to the Bottom conversation last year, you were behind the times.


The Mets almost made the World Series in 2006 following a 97-win season. So, while I don't have a distinct memory of Talk Radio pre-season 2007, I know that plenty of Mets fans thought their team was superior to the Yankees because  the Mets had just gotten further in the playoffs.

So that's eight years ago, at most. Which is not that long ago.


But the real answer is we go through this every single season. The Mets are always talking big, from Valentine to Randolph to Alderson's 90 wins. It looks like Lupica, the Daily News, and Frank from Forest Hills will finally be correct. In my opinion, the Yankees are a 4th-place, sub-.500 team this year.


The agenda is not to have a serious discussion about which mediocre baseball team is better. The agenda is to over-hype the Mets because the Mets are perceived as the Underdog team in NY. The Mets and their supportive media are allowed to talk trash in a way that would be unbecoming for the Empirical Yankees ... an Empire that's in name only at this point.

I'd say to the Mets the same thing I'd say to the Yankees: Shut up and play.