Word: yorks
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...Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Julie Grace/Chicago, David Nordan/Atlanta and Alice Park and Andrea Sachs/New York...
...WOODSON MERRELL is executive director of the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing in New York City...
...exhausting, rain-sodden rumble the Atlanta Braves survived against the New York Mets for the National League championship last week consisted of six games decided by a total of seven runs, the last two games comprising 26 innings of struggle more nearly reminiscent of rugby union than of sunlit summer afternoons at the ball park. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox's lightning comeback against the Cleveland Indians in the first round was more histrionic than their testy five-game loss to the hated Yankees, but not remotely as dramatic. No script in baseball comes close...
...Mets-Red Sox would have been a replay of the Buckner series of '86; and Yankees-Mets, presumably, the mythic second coming of the famed Subway Series that marked the 1950s--mythic because, these days, people who ride subways don't often get tickets to Series games in New York City. After the corporate box-seat ticket holders and other big shooters are taken care of, it would only be accurate to call a Yankees-Mets engagement a Lincoln Town Car Series...
...epic encounter between fabled foes, we have a contest between the two best teams in baseball. And not merely the two best teams but two paradigms of the modern baseball-world order. The Yankees, with the game's highest payroll, are rich because they're in New York. The Braves, fifth highest, are rich because they're owned by a giant, jillion-dollar media company (the same one, Time Warner Inc., that owns this magazine...