the.com/subway series
the only rivalry where the trash talk commutes on the same train as the fans.
means an interleague baseball series between the new york yankees and new york mets, named for the subway lines that connect their stadiums.
from coined in the pre-interleague era for exhibition meetups, the term exploded in 2000 when the yankees and mets actually met in the world series, forcing manhattan and queens to share a subway car for a week.
first real series2000 world series, yankees won in five
stadium distanceciti field and yankee stadium, seven subway stops apart
pre-2000 originnamed after exhibition games decades before it mattered