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Major League Baseball’s reasons for nixing Mets’ 9/11 tribute don’t add up

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Anthony J Causi

Major League Baseball keeps rejecting the Mets’ request to have players wear special caps for one game to mark the 9/11 anniversary — and its explanation doesn’t add up.

As The Post’s Rich Calder reported Sunday, an MLB source says teams may “honor tragedies” only “during warmups and other pregame activities,” because the central office doesn’t want to get stuck “judging which tragedies should and shouldn’t be recognized during a game.”

Huh? As City Councilman Justin Brannan notes, MLB just let the Astros don one-day caps to mark the anniversary of the moon landing.