There’s no getting around this. The 2025 baseball season in New York has been one of the most exasperating, confounding experiences that anyone can remember for both Yankees and Mets fans.

Maybe one of them has experienced such a roller coaster ride — think the Yankees in 2017 falling out of first place on Aug. 1, never to regain it after going 14-15 the rest of the month, or the Mets falling out of first place and contention by losing eight of nine in late September of 1999 — but never have both New York teams wreaked so much angst on their fans in the same season on their way to still making the playoffs.

While we maintain our doubts that either the Yankees or Mets have the chops to get to their mutual goal of a berth in the World Series, we are also seeing sufficient evidence that

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