The Subway Series between the New York Mets and New York Yankees is consistently one of the most compelling matchups in all of baseball. But this year had significantly more buzz with the league's new highest-paid player,

With the Yankees and Mets considered championship contenders in the season’s early going, a repeat of 2000 is within the realm of possibility.

I felt a joy I had not known before. It was not love, and it was not comfort, nor was it mastery or beauty, but it was usefulness.” — “Isola,” Allegra Goodman And in its 29th iteration, the Subway Series managed to produce something novel.