Stupid Sexy Yankees

The Mets are enjoying a renaissance this season, leading the NL East as they approach the Subway Series to find... the other team in town, once again, somehow doing even better

Trivia question: Everyone remembers that Dave Mlicki pitched a shutout in the first Subway Series game, 25 years ago this summer at old Yankee Stadium. But who hit the first home run in interleague play between the Mets and Yankees?

By Roger Cormier

I watched the first chapter of The Captain, a docuseries about not David Wright somehow, but Derek Jeter. It's the only installment worth watching as far as I'm concerned. It covers The Good Old Days, before 1996, when the Yankees won the World Series, then won again in '98, and '99, and most painfully of all, in 2000.

Ever since, the Yankees have been the Gallant to the Mets' Goofus in New York. Mets fans like myself developed an inferiority complex. Yankees fans developed a hoity-toity complex. They claim they don't care about the Mets, yet somehow know every single "LolMets" moment that has happened over the last 15 years. (What will those poor bastards do now?)