Sunday Caps A Weird Weekend For NY Baseball

You gotta forgive New York baseball fans if their allegiance was a bit off this weekend.

But you weren’t seeing things if you strolled by the local watering hole and saw Mets fans cheering for the Yankees and Yankee fans pulling for the Mets.

Such was the case during this rarest of weekends, when each New York team was playing the arch inter-divisional rival of the OTHER Big Apple club.

Yankees vs. Phillies. Mets at Red Sox. It was enough to make the most hardened Yankee/Met hater, if only for three games, root for the opposite shade of blue.

Interleague play is the only time the Mets and Yankees can directly affect the standing of their cross-city rival, and this weekend provided a perfect example of that.

The Mets won two of three against the Red Sox, softening the blow for the Yankees, who lost two against the Phillies.

Bad news for the Yankees, who lost their series, but the silver lining came courtesy of the Mets, who ensured the Bombers stayed even with Boston in the division.

Mets fans should be happy enough that they actually won their series, but knowing them, they’ll probably be bitter that the Yankees didn’t do their part and beat up on the Phils.

Either way it was a confusing weekend all around for New York baseball. Met fans rooting for the Yankees, Bombers fans pulling for the Amazin’s.

It’s enough to make you long for the day when these two keep it simple and play each other head-to-head. That’s June 12th, to be exact. The first game of this year’s Subway Series.

It’s then that all will be right with the world and we can revert to the blind hatred that we’re all used to.

Lookin’ forward to it.

Matt Estreich for The Huddle