February 13, 2012
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    new york yankees

    By Max J. Dickstein

    Column: This Subway Series comes right on time

    Photo credit: Game Face

    The Mets' David Wright and the Yankees' Derek Jeter, pictured last summer, are set for their first interleague game of 2009, this Friday at Yankee Stadium. (Getty Images)

    By Max. J. Dickstein

    Each team has had its streaks and skids, its bouts with injury and hard luck that draft the early narrative of a season and harden a team’s identity.

    One-third of the way through their 2009 campaigns, the Mets and Yankees now must measure up against each other — more for the New York fan’s benefit than for their own.

    Neither team’s supporters care particularly much for their crosstown rivals, but that is not to say the Mets and Yankees are nemeses. They are two grand, parallel stories that seldom converge except in the New York baseball fan’s subconscious, and, by force of scheduling, for six games in June.

    This year, the enigmatic Mets and the armor-chinked Yankees are already striving hard for the top of their divisions, but regular-season failures less than nine months old haunt them still.

    As our two clubs pause for a June clash in the Bronx, we revel as two new stories unfold together.

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