Please spare America of Dodgers/Yankees World Series, Mets

The Dodgers and Yankees World Series may be great for Major League Baseball and Fox, but it won't be great for baseball fans.

In New York, the locals dream of a Subway Series with the Mets and Yankees facing off in the World Series.

In Los Angeles, the fine folks are salivating over a championship matchup between the Dodgers and Yankees.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Fox Sports executives know what a boon it would be if the Dodgers and Yankees met in the Fall Classic. Ratings and revenue would benefit baseball and the network.

Most baseball fans outside of New York and Los Angeles would be terrified to see a potential matchup of New York’s American League team playing the Dodgers. Count me as one of them. Whoever wins that matchup will not make anyone happy. It’s hard to celebrate either unlikable team winning a championship.

I have come to terms with the Yankees making the World Series. They should sweep an overmatched Cleveland Guardians team after being up 2-0 in the AL Championship Series with a 6-3 victory on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.

The Bronx Bombers received a gift from the baseball gods in playing two AL Central cupcakes (the Kansas City Royals were another one) during their playoff journey that would put St. John’s basketball nonconference schedule to shame. Was St. Mary’s not available for the Pinstripes to play? What about Don Bosco?

The Yankees might have as well received a bye on their trip to the World Series.

It’s up to the Mets to save us from this catastrophe.

I have zero use for the Dodgers. I never cared for them when they stunk, and I certainly don’t care for them now. I grew up hating them, and I will always hate them.

That team plays in Los Angeles, so that itself makes them unlikable. Anything associated with that city would make it hard to root for. LA sports fans are hard to deal with. They are smug and arrogant. You can’t have a conversation with them. They don’t relate well to the hardcore sports fan who lives on the East Coast and Midwest.

You see Los Angelenos doesn’t take sports as seriously as we do. They treat sporting events like social events. Like people who attend basketball games at Barclays Center, they come to be seen and heard at Dodgers, Lakers, Rams, Kings, USC and UCLA games.

It’s hard to take LA sports fans seriously as fans when they can’t tell a baseball from a beach ball.

Games 1 and 2 of the NL Championship Series at Dodger Stadium did not even sell out. There were plenty of seats available. Maybe Dodgers fans are saving up for the World Series since it’s a birthright for their team to play in one. Talk about a lack of disrespect for the Mets right there.

Dodgers fans figured it would be a four-game sweep, especially when their team handed a 9-0 beating to the Amazin’s in Game 1 of the NLCS. They have now learned the hard way that it’s going to be a grinding series after the Mets responded right back with a 7-3 Game 2 victory.

It’s hard to root for a team in the Dodgers that has a $300 million payroll and spent billions of dollars this offseason to get to the World Series.

Only that team can get away with having six starters (Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw, Gavin Stone, Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin) on the injured list. Most teams can’t do what the Dodgers do since they don’t have the payroll that the Dodgers and Yankees have. Just look at the Minnesota Twins relying on three rookies in David Festa, Simeon Woods-Richardson and Zebby Matthews in the starting rotation to improve their wild-card chances, and it did not end up well for them.

The Dodgers don’t have any likable players. It’s hard to respect Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto after not wanting to deal with the pressure of playing for the Yankees. They wanted no part of New York, so they took the easy way out of playing for a loaded team, not to mention they didn’t have to talk to the Los Angeles media, who will never be confused with the New York media.

I would have loved to see the Dodgers lose Game 5 of the NL Division Series to the Padres last week, but it didn’t happen.

Here’s hoping the Mets can finish the deal here.

Seeing the Dodgers or Yankees win the World Series would stink. Both teams would buy a championship. The Yankees would end their 15-year championship drought if they achieved that goal, and the Dodgers would win their first full-season championship since 1988 if they achieved their objective.

Seeing Dodgers fans or Yankees fans happy would make me squirm.

I have faith the Mets can deny both teams of winning a championship, let alone creating a World Series matchup between the Yankees and Dodgers.

Not only are the Amazin’s resilient, but they are talented. They did not go 67-40 to make the playoffs by being lucky after Francisco Lindor called a team meeting earlier in the year. They did not get lucky to go this far in the playoffs. They did not get an E-ZPass trip to the World Series like the Yankees have.

I picked the Mets to win the NLCS in 6.

I would have preferred not to see the Subway Series, either. We all know the Yankees will overshadow the Mets based on media coverage, and you can bet the media will do all it can to root for the Yankees to win it all.

With that said, I can tolerate a Subway Series since I know the Mets can beat the overrated Yankees.

A Dodgers and Yankees World Series matchup would make me focus on the wretched Giants and Jets along with NBA basketball and the Islanders.