Jul
11
2012

Subway Series Scaled Down From Six Games To Four Beginning Next Season

An article by Hojo's Mojo

Yesterday in Kansas City, MLB Players Association chief Michael Weiner told reporters that the Mets and Yankees and other interleague rivals will play three or four games beginning in 2013, not six according to a Associated Press report.

“It wasn’t fair to have six games against an opponent that other teams in your division didn’t,” Weiner said at a Baseball Writers’ Association of America gathering.

“The Mets, for example, would say `Why do we have to play the Yankees six times every single year when some of our division opponents are playing teams that aren’t traditionally as strong? We understand we’ve got to play the Yankees every year. That’s OK. Why should we play six?’”

Most Mets fans have been questioning the fairness of the six-game series with the Yankees for years, so I’m glad to see them come to their senses.

It appears that in the case of the Mets and Yankees, that they will play a four-game series in 2013, with two games at Citi Field immediately followed by two games iat Yankee Stadium.

I still would prefer an annual alternating three game series at one venue, but this is certainly a big improvement.

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6 Comments + Add Comment

Fonzie13 July 11, 2012 at 9:18 am

I totally agree with this. I’d rather see more games against our old rivalries like the Cubs, Cards and Dodgers. I’d like to see more games at Wrigley only not this year the way the Cubs have manhandled us. 6 games with the Yanks got to be overkill for me. 4 is perfect. Besides it was an unfair disadvantage for the Mets to have to play the Skanks 6X a year when no other team in our division does.
gary s. July 11, 2012 at 10:32 am

Actually zero would be fine with me.Four is still too many.Losing series to the Yankees every year has become rather ho hum.Good chance the 5 losses to the Skanks this year will cost us a wild card spot..I am surprised the Wilonpzis signed off on 2 less games because of the revenues form their ripoff “platinum” ticket pricing shakedown for Yankee games at Chittifield.
- Gamegeezer July 11, 2012 at 10:46 am
  
  I agree, zero games would be perfect. I’m old enough to remember when the Cubs were our main rivals to stay out of the 10th place cellar and then that wonderful year of ’69 with Leo the Lip. I’d rather play more games against them or as Fonzie13 said the Cards, another old rival.
  
  Inter-league play is way over hyped in my opinion but maybe it’s just me being an old fart who remembers 8 team leagues and starting pitchers expected to go the full 9. Don’t get me started about the DH.
K Maxx July 11, 2012 at 11:53 am

I never was a fan of interleague and I wish it would go away altogether. I hate just about everything Selig has done as commissioner. I hope whoever replaces him undoes or repeals have the crap he did.
jessep July 11, 2012 at 12:02 pm

I’d personally prefer a balanced schedule across the board. I hate the division schedule, and I hate the small samples of interleague. If you’re gonna do interleague, have every team play each other for 3 games. Then alternate home/away the following year.

Then use a balanced league schedule for all other games.

The division heavy schedule gives favoritism to weak divisions. Teams LAD/SF get to feast on weak SD, COL teams while the Mets have absolutely no breaks in their division schedule.

If there are no wildcard then a division schedule would be fine.

A balanced schedule is more likely to get you the best 5 playoff teams per league.
Metsie July 11, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Well all I can say is great timing now that the yankees are about 2-3 years away from not being the Yankees anymore due to retirement and age! LOL

The number of games isn’t the issue it’s the way they do interleague that is the problem.

If everyone in the Division had to play the same number vs the Yankees as we do then it wouldn’t be a problem!

So change the formula for Interleague scheduling. make all the teams in a division play the same teams as the others.Do what the NFL does and let records decide which division you play against the following year. If the NL East and AL East are the strongest divisions then they play each other in interleague the next year!

The problem is as much as the Mets complain they have to play the tough Yankees they sure don’t complain much when they count the money from those games!

NL East Standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Braves	24	18	.571	-
Nationals	23	20	.535	1.5
Phillies	20	23	.465	4.5
Mets	16	24	.400	7.0
Marlins	11	32	.256	13.5

Last updated: 05/18/2013

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