Who will win the Subway Series in NYC? Fans have predictions

THE BRONX, NY (PIX11) — The Subway Series is so named for a reason: Not only are both teams’ stadiums located next to subway stations, but New York fans use the subway to get to games 400% more often than fans of the other three U.S. cities with rival stadiums on the other side of town combined. That means that unlike Los Angeles, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area, the Mets-Yankees rivalry is a true subway series, and no one knows that better than the people who ride the subway to games.

Zach Schmidt and Bill Danko are among the millions who fit that description. They have somehow managed to remain best friends despite the rivalry each of them openly displays. On Tuesday afternoon, they stood together on platform No. 4, Schmidt wearing his Mets jersey and Danko in his Yankees pinstripes.

In the hours leading up to Tuesday’s game, they taunted each other with their respective predictions about the outcome of the game.

“Yankees,” Danko said firmly, to which his best friend Schmidt replied, “The Mets. We’re going to blow them away 10-0.”

“We’re going to hit home runs,” Danko replied, mentioning the names of Yankee heavyweights Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. “That’s all we have to do.”

Also on the elevated subway platform was Mets fan Marshall – he did not want to give his last name. He admitted that he was in a compromising position because he commutes to work in the Bronx at the Yankee Stadium subway station almost every day.

“You try not to say too much when you’re in enemy territory,” he told PIX11 News. “Saying too much is like fighting words,” he continued.

“It’s simple,” he said. “We’ll take this one, we’ll take the next one here.”

He said that as a Mets fan in the Bronx, he is as New Yorker as it gets. Some other fans on the platform also showed their true New York fanatic spirit, even though they are not New Yorkers. Quite the opposite, in the truest sense of the word.

The Adams-Vasvinder family hails from Vancouver, Washington, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Dressed head to toe in Yankees regalia, they said that after taking the subway to the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium, they had tickets to the Mets game against Atlanta on Thursday at Citi Field.

They take the subway to all the games, but their emotions center around one team. And that team is not the Mets.

“As Jeter once said,” Hannajoy Vasvinder said of the former Bronx Bombers captain and Hall of Fame inductee, “They’re just the Mets. They exist.”

Her sister Ashley Adams expanded on this thought. “The Americans did it,” she said.

Two other baseball fans, Leticia Milla and Gabreo Meltaes, had just gotten off the train and were on their way to the official Yankee Stadium tour before Tuesday night’s Subway Series game. Milla was wearing her Yankees gear, Meltaes his Mets jersey. The two said they are a devoted, loving couple, at least for now.

“So it’s the first time we’re at a game together,” said Milla, “so let’s see how it goes.”