(Yankees / Mets) Goal for One Team Is Impossible Dream for the Other: NYT

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Goal for One Team Is Impossible Dream for the OtherBy GEORGE VECSEY
Everything is relative. In the very same city, Yankees fans are generally happy only if their team wins the World Series whereas Mets fans are conditioned to be happy with one magical season every generation or so — although not this year. Absolutely not this year.

The good season arrived just in time Saturday, with the Mets and the Yanks on the radio, doubling the temperature in New York just by their presence.

There is no likelihood of the Mets’ sprinkling fairy dust in the Queens ballpark and having another special season, now long overdue. But at least they may survive in the National League, given that there is no such thing as relegation to the minor leagues, the way there is in many world soccer leagues. (Imagine the Mets and the Pirates fighting it out to avoid the International League. It could be fun. Big games at the end of September, like the old days.)

Putting aside the Mets’ legal-financial situation — the Madoff Caper, in shorthand — they have enough problems on the field to make them candidates for relegation in a true dog-eat-dog world.



Full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/sports/baseball/27vecsey.html?_r=1&hp