{"id":289436,"date":"2021-07-02T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-would-have-happened-if-mets-won-2000-world-series\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:14:59","slug":"what-would-have-happened-if-mets-won-2000-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-would-have-happened-if-mets-won-2000-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"#What would have happened if Mets won 2000 World Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What would have happ<\/a>ened if Mets won 2000 World Series<\/a>?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The following is, of course, a fictitious account of the 2000 World Series that was, of course, not won by a New York team known as the Mets:<\/em><\/p>\n

Derek Jeter was slumped in his chair and staring blankly into his Yankee Stadium locker. Joe Torre was locked behind his office door, weeping softly at his desk. George Steinbrenner was pacing manically in the clubhouse, ready to say something that might inspire a week\u2019s worth of back pages.<\/p>\n

The Yankees had just lost Game<\/a> 7 of the 2000 World Series to the Mets, and the home team was dying a thousand deaths. The Yankees had won the previous two titles, and three of four, and Steinbrenner was hunting for a TV network to call his own, a platform to push new-age pinstrip<\/a>ed mythology to an insatiable fan base. He wouldn\u2019t sell his baseball team to Cablevision because its chairman, Charles Dolan, wouldn\u2019t let him keep running the Yankees or honor his request to also run the Cablevision-owned Knicks and Rangers.<\/p>\n

Steinbrenner wanted to impose his will on every relevant sports franchise in town \u2026 and especially on the Mets.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d better f\u2014ing win or else,\u201d the Boss had told general<\/a> manager Brian Cashman.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a company standpoint, the city was ours,\u201d Cashman said later. \u201cThe city was at stake, the television contract was at stake, the entire financial power of the business was at stake. I felt like if we lost to the Mets, it would\u2019ve diminished our three championships. It would\u2019ve been like they didn\u2019t count. \u2026 I\u2019d never before been scared of losing. But I was scared of losing to the Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Piazza hits a two-run homer off Denny Neagle in the 2000 World Series<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His worst fears were confirmed. Mike Piazza\u2019s three-run homer in Game 6 sent the Subway Series barreling into a Game 7 the Yankees played as their GM felt \u2014 scared of losing to the Mets. When Armando Benitez struck out Bernie Williams with two outs in the ninth, freezing for eternity the 7-2 final score, Bobby Valentine bear-hugged his coaches and summoned his father-in-law, Ralph Branca, down to the field. Branca had surrendered the most devastating home-run in the city\u2019s rich baseball history, and Valentine wanted the former Dodgers pitcher to feel on this night what Bobby Thomson and the pennant-winning Giants felt nearly a half century earlier.<\/p>\n