When you live in a city that has two baseball teams, the question of which team is the best is always asked. No matter the championships they acquire, the records they set or the records they break – their die hard fans will not rest until one defeats the other. This year – New Yorkers will finally find out as The New York Yankees face the New York Mets in the first World Series of the new millennium.

When the last out was made and the Yankees clinched the American League Championship, I, of course, cheered for my favorite team. I then realized that this meant that the Yankees and Mets would finally go to the dance and duke it out to crown the true Kings of New York – how fitting that it should be at World Series 2000.

Whether you root for the Yankees or the Mets, you have to admit one thing – this is great for the City. No matter who wins, we will be treated to a parade down the Canyon of Heroes for the third year in a row. Whichever team takes the trophy – baseball fans will be treated to something they have never seen before. And whoever walks away the winning team – the fans of these two great baseball teams will walk away having borne witness to a true moment in history.

Personally – I am going for the Yankees. I don’t just say that because they are my favorite team. I say that because statistically – the Yankees have the edge. For one thing, the Yankees and Mets have faced each other in interleague play eighteen times – and the Yankees won eleven of those games. Second of all, the Yanks have made it to the World Series four times in the last five years and won the Series an average of every four years since the first time they came up to bat. In addition, they have won the last ten world series games they have played – because they won the last two games of the 1996 World Series and swept the last two World Series four games straight in 1998 and 1999.

The Mets on the other hand, have not exactly mirrored their New York counterparts. Having not made it to the Series since 1986 and barely scratching the surface of the top five teams in the National League – they are in for the fight of their lives against the Team of the Century – good luck.

My only concern regarding the Subway Series is those people who are always kind enough to ruin good things for everyone else. Let’s face it – when Game 1 of the Series hits the airwaves this Saturday – you’re going to have bars full of both Yankees and Mets fans and boatloads of alcohol. I just hope that whatever team wins – that people keep cool heads. Whether the Yanks or Mets win – the truth of the matter is that the real winners of the Subway Series is going to be the scalpers – who are asking ten thousand dollars a ticket for Game 1. The frightening part is – they’ll get it.

So here we are – the moment that New York baseball fans have always waited for. The moment when the #4 and #7 trains will collide in an effort to determine if the Bronx Bombers or the Amazins will wear the ring and get the bragging rights as the true baseball team of the Big Apple.

My opinion – the Yanks will drive for twenty-six – so bring on the Mets.