It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Matt Katz, reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom and lifelong Mets fan sitting in for Brian today.

Now let's talk New York baseball. We're in the final month of the regular season and both

the Mets and Yankees are contending to play in October. If they both make it, it would be by my

calculations. Only the sixth time in history that's happened, both teams also have players in contention

for MVP.

Listeners, will both teams make the playoffs?

Can either team win the World Series?

Will we see a subway series for the first time in 24 years?

What's your prediction?

What's it based on?

And what storylines this year in baseball are you most intrigued by?

Give us a call or send us a text.

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That's 212-433-9692.

And to talk about all of this, we're going to hear from someone who's paid to follow baseball.

Amazing job.

I'm joined by Brendan

Cuddy, MLB staff writer for The Athletic, the Sports Unit of the New York Times. Welcome to WNYC.

Brendan, thanks for being on. Thank you for having me. You're right. It is an amazing job. I'm lucky to do what I do.

That's so great. So I checked the standings before I went to bed last night, and it looks like if the season

ends today, both teams would make the playoffs, but it looks like Yankees are in a stronger

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