Rare Choice for Opener: Yankees or Mets?

“I hate the Yankees — every time there's a home game, it totally messes up the parking in this neighborhood,” said Mark Kassof, an owner of Thriftland, at River Avenue and 153rd Street, just south of Yankee Stadium. And the fans were already streamingThe Yankee offense couldn't overcome shaky pitching performances to beat the Red Sox on Opening Day at Yankee Stadium.The lasting impression from the Yankees' recent spring training will surely be that of Brian Cashman, the general manager, sitting in a wheelchair, leaning on a scooter or trudging about on crutches while trying to reassemble and patch together the4 train platform, Yankees fans boarded their ride due north, for a date with the Boston Red Sox. And one level below, beneath the pinstriped faithful — in a cruel bit of transit symbolism not lost on the city's Mets fans — the No. 7 train to QueensMany

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