Subway Series: Both Teams Seeking to Get Back on Track

From the desks of: 

HEAD-BUTTING MR. MET  and  BLAME CARLOS MAY

SUBWAY SERIES

New York Mets

vs.

New York Yankees

FROM

161 Street and River Avenue

Desperation is the name of the game come Tuesday at Yankee Stadium, each team for their own respective reasons.

The Mets enter Wednesday's double-header one game under the .500 mark.  Therefore in order to leave Bronx County above par they would need to sweep both games.  Easier said than done.  While their season teeters on the brink of near collapse, the seat under their manager's posterior continues heating up.  They've responded of late with series victories over the Giants and most recently the Rockies.  But for all their perceived troubles, real or imagined, they only trail the first place Philadelphia Phillies in the standings by 4.5 games.  So there's that.

The Yankees on the other hand should be applauded for all that the B-Squad has accomplished.  Faced with injury upon ruinous injury, they Yankees have somehow excelled in the absence of many of their premiere performers.  But for all their efforts, they still can't seem to shake the Tampa Rays.  Due to Monday's game one rain-out of the Subway Series, the Rays were able to put a licking on the Oakland A's and assume first place of the American League East.  When the Yankees open for business on Tuesday, they'll do so in second place, one-half game behind the Rays.  They're also coming two disappointing series losses against the Toronto Blue Jays and to a greater extent the Cleveland Indians by whom they were nearly swept courtesy of a rare bullpen meltdown on Sunday.  So there's that.

SUBWAY SERIES SPECIAL

35 minutes