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Yankees win first battle in bid to take back the town from Mets

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Ben Zobrist (left) and Starlin Castro

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — You know what they say in the Big Apple:

If you can’t beat ’em, then indirectly sabotage ’em.

Here at the Gaylord Opryland, a biosphere-esque resort that many New Yorkers would regard as more over the top than the Naked Cowboy, the Mets and Yankees found themselves in the eye of Tuesday’s Winter Meetings storm. A storm that had to leave the Mets dazed and confused and that gave the Yankees a different look than many of us envisioned.

Ben Zobrist will be a Cub, once he passes his physical exam.