Brian Ler on WNYC. And to wrap up the show today on a lighter note, as we often do, we will take

your calls for our last few minutes on a certain kind of New York rivalry. Yankees fans versus Mets fans.

Tonight, as you know, if you're a baseball fan, it kicks off the second round of the

Subway Series for this year. Two games at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx tonight, tomorrow

night after the two earlier in the season at City Field in Queens. And so listeners, we want to know

what makes you a Mets or a Yankees fan? Or what makes you respect or loathe the other team?

212-433 W-N-YC, 212-433-9692. Is there a vibe to being a Mets fan that you can put

into words or a vibe to being a Yankee fan? 2112-433-9-6-9-2, call or text.

Now we know some of fandom is about the accident of where you grow up,

grow up, right?

Or what team your parents may have steeped you in.

Did your parents get you a Yankees or a Mets onesie as your first piece of clothing?

So if it's about where you live, where you grew up, your family history, you can say that.

But we're also looking for more than that at 212-433 WNYC.

We're looking for that Yankee fan vibe or that Mets fan vibe that you can put into words. For example, there are a lot of stereotypes

that inform our understanding of the Mets Yankees rivalry in the popular imagination here in New York.

The Mets are often seen as, you know, an underdog team kind of scrappy and enduring despite

the odds in their historical record.

The Yankees, on the other hand, definitely have more of a straight-edge vibe.

They've maintained a strict appearance policy, dating back to the 1970s,

where players aren't allowed to have long hair or any kind of beard.

I think they're the only team of the majors with that rule.

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