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It can’t end like this, can it?
Can it?
Back in the spring, it sure felt like both the Yankees and the Mets were cooking up something special to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 2000 Subway Series. That five-game tour through the heart of baseball New York had been so long in coming, 44 years since the previous one. We knew in the moment how rare a treat that was.
We knew, even as it was happening, even as Luis Sojo’s 14-bounce dribbler up the middle clinched a 4-1 World Series win for the Yanks, that mathematics and probability conspired in equal measure against the likelihood that it could ever become as regular a rite of autumn as it used to be.
