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GEICO Week in New York: July 4-10

Mets: If you're a Mets fan, one imagines you watched Mariano Rivera enter Sunday afternoon's game with a mixture of fear and despair. Fear of the great Rivera, and despair at the spanking you were almost certain had just been applied in your team's home park. Your family barbecue had been ruined, and not only because you'd overcooked the kebabs. And then, suddenly, something good happened. The Mets rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth, only failing to win it outright because of a brilliant throw from Brett Gardner that cut down the lumbering Lucas Duda at home plate -- a play you were sure signaled nothing but impending doom. And yet, it all only served to make Jason Bay's walk-off hit an inning later just a little bit sweeter.

Because let's face it, it's hard to express how much that Mets win meant. In a week that began with two blowout victories in Detroit that had the Mets looking like world beaters, a three-game sweep by the Yankees that included an injury to Jose Reyes would have been almost unfair, sending fans into a rage not felt since the time their older brother ate the cupcake they'd been saving all day.

Instead, the injury news on Reyes is promising, the Mets are back at .500 and a sense of hope and optimism has been restored, no matter how long it is likely to last. The Mets did not win the Subway Series this weekend, but it was not a failure either. In a season that has been unexpectedly fun, it will certainly have to suffice. The Mets will next head west to take on San Francisco and Los Angeles -- the two teams they were created to replace -- before the All-Star break offers a few days to rest. The break is almost here and the Mets are still alive and interesting. Not bad.

Yankees: As an admitted Mets aficionado, I hope this is not the result of a rough weekend clouding my objectivity, nor do I wish to wander into unnecessary hyperbole, but let's face it, the Yankees are bad for America.

Yes, nowadays, the famed Bronx Bombers are somewhere between a meat lover's stuffed crust pizza, a KFC Double Down, or a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich served on pancakes instead of a roll. In other words, sure, they're delicious.

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There have been many great individual rivalries in sports through out the ages which have seen great players compete against each other in ways which brought out the best in each other. These being the kind of matches in which one was never really sure who would come out on top but one could always count on seeing great encounters as well as magnificent displays of talent and skill from both players. As examples of such rivalries one might refer to Connors VS. Borg (tennis), Russell VS. Chamberlain (basketball), Evert VS. Navratilova (tennis), Senna VS. Prost (formula one), Ali VS Frazier (boxing) and Bird VS. Johnson yet in a strange way though these last two were competitors; they almost never actually had to go directly against one another. It being a case of Larry Bird playing small forward while Johnson played guard which meant that unlike Chamberlain and Russell, who were on each other all the time; Johnson and Bird did not player against each other so directly yet by leading their teams did create a strong rivalry.

The year was 1980 and the truth was that basketball had lost a lot of its popularity since the 60s with players like Russell and Chamberlain having retired and the newer generations not having been able to capture the imagination of younger audiences. Of course there were great players like Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving (Doctor J) yet interest in the league and basketball in general were in decline. It perhaps being a case that Abdul-Jabbar though admired for his skills was not really one who was liked by the public. Abdul-Jabbar being a very shy man who was not very friendly with fans as he preferred to keep his solitude. It being at this time that two great players came out of college in the same year and in fact, it was their universities which met in the final with Johnson’s team beating Bird’s team; to win the national championship.

As for myself at the time, I was 13 years old and the truth is that I had never really been a basketball fan by any stretch of the imagination. Basketball being a game which I did not follow on television as I neither liked the game, nor disliked it and playing it was definitely something which I was and still am utterly incapable of doing. This not only due to my limited height but my lack of any talent which might allow me to either dribble the ball or shot it or even pass it. It being a case that when I did play the game in summer camp, I was the only one allowed to travel due to the fact that if this had been called against me; it would have been called all the time and would have really slowed down the game. I, in fact liked playing the game in spite of not having any ability for it yet it was in this year that I started really watching basketball.

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