Remember the Yankees?
The team that has won 27 World Series titles, and the franchise often billed as the most storied in sports, is impossible to forget.
Yet even their glorious past cannot rescue the Bombers from exile into unfamiliar territory. The Mets now control the media landscape the Yankees have owned for many moons. Commanding the spotlight is extremely beneficial to the bottom line, especially when it comes to selling tickets and producing TV ratings.
And that’s what this game is really about.
There’s more to this than momentum gained by a trip (albeit a losing one) to the World Series.