The Yankees and Mets are watching the same terrific World Series the rest of us are watching, it just cost them a combined $600 million or so for their own viewing rights. The Mets spent a little more on baseball players this year than the Dodgers. The Yankees spent a little less. The Mets weren’t good enough to even make the postseason. The Yankees couldn’t beat the Blue Jays after getting rolled in the first two games of their division series. No kidding, no teams ever paid more to watch a Series than them.

Brian Cashman, the architect of another Yankee team that fell short, says that he never called the postseason a crapshoot, but rather spoke of the “randomness” of it all, and what a relief it was to have that clarified. But you know what makes everything far less random? Having

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