05-07-2025
Sloppy Subway Series should honor the lackadaisical player who donned both uniforms
In a sports century thus far dominated by preposterous self-ruin, how does this grab ya: The Robinson Cano Cup.
Especially with both the Mets and Yankees sacrificing their financial advantages by playing fundamentals-starved baseball fully invited then indulged by their GMs and managers, the Robinson Cano Cup would be annually awarded to the winner of the Yanks-Mets home-and-home.
Cano, after all, this century played for both teams, and left a lasting, media-parroted preposterous legacy: He Was Good in the Clubhouse. Yep, as if he were an indispensable towel bin.
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6 Robinson Cano walks back to the dugout after lining out to end the game in the seventh inning of a doubleheader in 2020.
Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post
So the plaque attached to the trophy would read: 'As a member of both the Mets and Yanks, Cano jogged into groundball double plays, was twice suspended by MLB a total of 242 games for illegal drug use, and was known and celebrated for being good in the clubhouse.'
