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0 -- Losses suffered by David Cone in five World Series starts. Cone is 2-0 with a 2.15 ERA as a member of four championship teams. |
Like his teammate Orlando Hernandez, David Cone has never lost in the World Series.
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1 -- Man will be wearing a Mets uniform who was also wearing one in the 1986 World Series -- Mookie Wilson, who is now a coach with the Mets. |
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2 -- NL East runner-ups have reached the World Series in the past four years -- the 2000 Mets and '97 Florida Marlins. Those are the only two wild cards to reach the Series. |
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3 -- Times Joe Torre will manage in the World Series against a team that fired him. The Braves canned him in 1984 and then lost the '96 and '99 Series to Torre's Yanks. The Mets fired him in 1981. |
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7.0 -- Combined Fox/NBC rating for the 11 League Championship Games this postseason, down from 10.3 last year. |
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11 -- Foreign-born players on the rosters of the Mets (4) and Yankees (7). |
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12 -- The record for most consecutive World Series games won, shared by the current Yankees and those Bronx Bombers of 1927, 1928 and 1932. |
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12.1 -- Mariano Rivera's scoreless innings streak in World Series play, dating back to Game 4 of the 1996 World Series. Rivera's streak of 34 scoreless innings ended in Game 6 of the ALCS. |
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14 -- Minutes of traffic-free drive time separating Yankee and Shea stadiums. |
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25 -- Don Zimmer's age when he was a member of the 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers, who played the Yankees in the last Subway Series. Zimmer did not play in the Series because of a broken cheekbone suffered three months earlier. |
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30 -- Percentage of New York baseball fans who take the train to any given Mets or Yankees game, according to a Thursday report in the New York Times. New York City Transit estimates between 13 and 30 percent of fans use the subway to get to Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. |
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32.8 -- Highest Nielsen rating ever for a World Series, set in 1980 when the Phillies defeated the Royals in six games. The Mets-Red Sox Series in 1986 pulled in a 28.6 for the seventh-highest rating. The past three Series involving the Yankees have been duds ratings-wise -- 17.4 in 1996, 14.1 in '98 and 16.0 in '99. |
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68 -- Major leaguers have played for the Yankees and the Mets in their careers. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Jose Vizcaino, also played for the Giants and Dodgers. |
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5,400 -- Parking spaces at Shea Stadium, for all those non-subway travelers. |
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7,000 -- Parking spaces at Yankee Stadium. |
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300,000 -- Dollars WNYW Channel 5 in New York is charging advertisers for 30-second spots during World Series games. That's nearly identical to what Fox is charging for spots -- between $275,000 and $325,000. |
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400,000 -- Daily ridership on the No. 7 subway train, which has a stop at Shea Stadium. |
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550,000 -- Daily ridership on the No. 4 train, which, along with the D line (350,000), has a stop at Yankee Stadium. |
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171,000,000 -- Approximate combined payrolls of the Mets ($71 million) and Yankees ($100 million). |
