The Mets and the Yankees are rivals by geography, they have to be, Queens vs. the Bronx. And as the Subway series moves crosstown to Yankee Stadium, it's time to take a look at the backbone of each of these two teams.
Derek Jeter and David Wright, the faces of the Yankees and Mets, are two outstanding men on the field and off.
Despite the uniforms that they put on each day, Jeter and Wright don't share a heated rivalry, like Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza had going.
Sure, they want to beat each other, who doesn't want to win? But these guys do it classy, they don't show off or complain and whine, they play the game the way it should be played.
They don't put their personal agendas ahead of the team, and that's what makes them the great players that they are.
You always see these two pl ...
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Article written by Lucas Weick
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