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The feud between Francisco Rodriguez and Brian Bruney escalated today when K-Rod went after Bruney before the game at Yankee Stadium. Bruney got things started yesterday by making some disparaging comments about K-Rod’s save celebrations, "He's got a tired act. He gets what he deserves, man. I just don't like watching the guy pitch. I think it's embarrassing." Rodriguez responded by calling Bruney a nobody, "I don't even know who that guy is. Someone in Double A. I believe he's never pitched one full season. He's always been on the DL, that's all I know, so he better keep his mouth shut and do his job and not worry about anyone else," and daring Bruney to “say it to my face” the next time. Apparently, Rodriguez felt the need to say it to Bruney’s face before today's game and went over and confronted him. Jose Veras and Mike Pelfrey separated the two pitchers and no physical contact was made.

Yesterday's unusual double-header subway series, with the first afternoon game at Yankee Stadium and the evening game at Shea Stadium, might have been a commuting nightmare for devoted fans trying to catch both games. But the teams got full police escorts to the stadiums--it only took 17 minutes for the team and media buses to head from Queens to the Bronx and 20 minutes for the Bronx-to-Queens travels! But one Daily News reporter who decided to drive made it to Queens in just over an hour. Did any readers take the subway from Yankee Stadium to Shea? And the Mets are hosting the Yankees right now, Johan Santana vs. Andy Petitte

Eight hours of baseball in two different stadiums ended with both the Mets and Yankees scoring 15 runs and earning a split of their doubleheader.

WCBS 880's Sports Director Jared Max noticed that ESPN's NYC skyline shot--during the Mets-Yankees game last night--was not live but actually stock footage from the holiday season. The telltale clue was the Empire State Building: In ESPN's shot, the building was green and red, but in actuality, the building was lit in both blue and orange AND blue and white, in honor of the subway series. What gives--ESPN can't spring for a live shot of NYC any more?

Tonight (if it's not rained out), the Yankees and Mets will begin this season's first subway series at Yankee Stadium.

The Empire State Building will continue its tradition of equally supporting the Mets and Yankees (and whole-heartedly supporting Big City Rivalry) as the two teams enter the Subway Series.

Beginning on Friday, May 16, the north/south sides of the building will be lit in Yankees blue and white, while its east/west sides will be lit in Mets blue and orange. The team who wins the series will have its colors displayed on all four sides of the tower on Monday, May 19.

THEATER: With his zany imagination and distinctive bass-baritone voice, Joseph Keckler (myspace) has been generating buzz throughout the gooey honeycomb of the downtown performance art cabaret scene. Tonight he sprinkles his particular blend of whimsical catnip at Dixon Place with Cat Lady, in which a man re-enacts an ordinary day with his mother, who runs a community theater with cat actors out of her home. “Past lives are recalled, songs are sung, and finally a trip to the vet's is made in this comedic and dark exploration of the relationship between art and trauma.” Part of the HOT! Festival. – John Del Signore

The Yankees keep on rolling. They've now won 11 of 12, and Chien-Ming Wang looks as good as ever. His strikeouts are on the rise, and his starts almost always serve as a means for the Yankees to rest their weary bullpen. He's economical with his pitches, and he works quickly. When Wang starts, the Yankees win more than 60 percent of the time. They can't ask for more than what Wang's given them.

Give him the shiny blue National League jacket, spangled with every team logo, not the Mets jacket. Sure, he'd use police barricades as planks to scale the fence at Shea, but he was there to root for players -- Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays and Juan Marichal -- not the home team. Too tight a circle. Too small an o.

• Yankees 7 Arizona 1: It’s funny how baseball works. When the Yankees and Mets met in the first round of the Subway Series, the Mets were on a roll and the Yankees in disarray. When they resume the series tonight, the Yankees will be the favorites.
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Darrel Rasner's broken index finger sends yet another Yankees pitcher to the sidelines for as long as three months, and necessitates that Joe Torre call up yet another young prospect to deal from the mound for the Bronx Bombers. The candidate making his Major League debut pitching at an away game in the high profile Subway Series at Shea will likely be Tyler Clippard, a righthanded 22-year-old. Just nine weeks ago, Clippard acknowledged that as the 7th-best Yankees prospect ranked by Baseball America at the start of 2007, he wasn't too dispirited by the lack of attention he was garnering in comparsion to some of his teammates. What a difference a few months can make!

Baseball fans are crowding the 7 train to head to Shea for Game 2 of the Mets-Yankees Subway Series this afternoon. Though veteran pitcher Andy Pettitte threw well enough for the Yankees in their 3-2 loss last night, we asked if it's panic time in the Bronx, given that two inexperienced pitchers are starting Games 2 and 3. What do you think will happen in the rest of the series?

Anecdotal evidence, collected from bartenders, merchandise dealers and bleacher creatures, suggests that the Mets — with their core of young, flashy players and recent winning ways — are taking substantial bites out of the Yankee fan base, at least in Westchester.

Franklin spent more than two decades working among trains and on the tracks where he would eventually die, but his passion was art and he carried a sketchbook with him nearly always. In a poignant intersection of two stories this week, when two homeless men were also killed in one night while in the subway system, the people who lived in the subway were Franklin's frequent subjects. Marvin Franklin was awarded Best in Show for his art work at the 2006 City Workers Invitational, hosted by the 136-year-old Salmagundi Art Club. The honor included a year's membership in the club. The work he entered was a watercolor chosen from his "Homeless Series." Some of Franklin's sketches of the homeless in the subway system can be seen here. One of the last watercolors Franklin completed can be viewed here (scroll down). He held a degree in illustrative arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology and spent many of his off-hours studying and practicing at the Art Students League. The New York Times reported that for his retirement, Franklin's dream was to open a gallery and give the proceeds to the homeless, the people he worked around for 22 years.

In keeping with our lists of events from 2006, here are some of the sports stories that Gothamist found compelling in the past year. It ranges from the playoff disappointment from the Mets and the Yankees to the welcome performances of last season's Rangers, this season's Jets and Rutgers.

Don't look now, but New York has the two best baseball teams in the Major Leagues. While the Yankees have only recently moved to the top of the American League, the Mets have been cruising atop the National League for a nice period and are currently the best team, record wise, in all of baseball. With the team's success this season more casual baseball fans are now more inclined to cheer for the Mets, which The Times reported on in a Sunday Styles article. While a die-hard Mets fan may frown upon these "fair weather" fans, there is a significant impact to the increased Mets following.

- Thing you've got bocce balls? Then you should test your stuff this weekend at the 12th Annual Citywide Bocce Tournament. Over 200 bocce enthusiasts from around the New York City area will compete Saturday and Sunday to see who's got the best. The tournament is free and open to adults of all ages. The prelims are in four of the five boroughs (sorry Manhattanites) with the finals to be played Sunday in Pelham Bay Park.

-Yankees 16 Mets 7: You can cross “A-Rod never gets a big hit against the Mets” off your list of reasons to boo him. Sunday night A-Rod delivered two huge hits, a grand slam and a three-run homer as the Yankees drew a split in the Subway Series.

After showering Central Park with 8.38 inches of rain this month Mother Nature decides to end June on a high note. Yesterday's thunderstorm and intense rain were followed by a gorgeous double-rainbow (the faint second bow is outside the main one, trust us!) that Gothamist saw over Harlem. The swampy weather we've had the past week have been pushed out to sea. Today is going to be nearly perfect. Sunny, dry and warm conditions will rule with a high temperature in the lower 80s. Some clouds may appear toward evening but there is no chance of rain. Tomorrow is going to be a slightly warmer repeat of today.

On a weekend where Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for 2nd on the list of career home runs, two mets tied records of their own. Tom Glavine tied Dennis Eckersley for 35th place with career strike out number 2,401 and Carlos Delgado tied Harold Baines for 49th with his 384th career home run. 56,205 fans were on hand on a bitterly cold night to watch the Mets defeat the Yankees 4-3.

The fans love it, the managers hate it and the players are mostly ambivalent; it’s the return of the Subway Series. One way or another Mets’ or Yankees’ fans will be able to claim bragging rights on Monday... or at least until the two teams meet again in July.

You hate to cheer for injuries, but sometimes they can be blessings in disguise. Yesterday when Victor Zambrano underwent surgery to repair his torn flexor tendon, he also had unexpected Tommy John surgery. It was the second Tommy John surgery in his career - the first coming long before the Mets traded Scott Kazmir for Zambrano. It's painfully obvious now who came out on top of that trade. While the surgery leaves the back end of the Mets rotation in question, the doubt is better than knowing that Zambrano was there, ready to turn out one poor performance after another.

We want more emcees, more beatboxers, more drummers to bang on the seats, more spoken word artists. Bring your cameras, your video cameras, your friends and let's restart hip hop. Let's restart music to consciousness again. No drums or kazoos or small portable amps.

Two hundred million dollars can buy a lot of things, but apparently it cannot buy a baseball team with heart. The day after being stymied by Pedro Martinez, the Yankee bats took another game off, this time against Tom Glavine who came into his start on Saturday with an ERA over 5. When the dust had settled, the Mets had won the contest 10-3 and chants of “Let’s Go Mets!” had filled Yankee Stadium.

The runs for the Mets came in an odd fashion last night. In the 2nd inning, the Mets had three sacrifice flies, becoming the first team in the National League to have three sac flies in an inning. How did they get three? A fly ball to Bernie Williams would have allowed a run to score but Williams misplayed the ball and didn't catch it. The inning was extended with the error and the play was still scored a sacrifice.

In a season of ups and downs, the Yankees are up again. Sunday, they beat the Cubs 6-3 to complete a three game sweep and run their winning streak to six games. The Cubs have lost all seven games they have ever played at Yankee Stadium.

Offensively, it seems like Mike Piazza and Kaz Matsui are finally coming around. Then again, they couldn't really get much worse, could they? Piazza was 4-4 in yesterday's game including a double that was close to being a home run. Matsui was 2-5 with 4 runners left on base, but won the game for the Mets on Tuesday.

After a disappointing Subway Series for the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees came home to face the Detroit Tigers in a three games series. The Yanks won the opening game in the series 10-3, with the long ball and solid pitching. The game was 7-0 after two innings, but that did not keep things from getting interesting.

Last week, Art Howe changed the rotation to save Tom Glavine, the Mets ace, for games against the Phillies and Marlins, giving them a chance to make progress in the NL East. While the interleague games may mean little in the standings, Cliff Floyd knows that fans love them. After Sunday's perfect ending, he said the following about Mets fans, "It isn't easy for those people. I know that. We know that. You got Yankees fans all around you, and they're a great team. It feels good to be able to give out fans something to feel good about. The way they support us, and the way the have to fight Yankees fans, they deserve this. They earned this. It's good to be a New York Mets fan right now."

The Yankees came into the series with a five and a half game lead over the Red Sox, by the first pitch on Thursday night, that lead was seven and a half games. It was a must win game for The Red Sox and their ace Pedro Martinez took the hill. Pedro picked up where he left off last year. After Gary Sheffield disrupted Pedro's focus by calling for time, Pedro plunked him with the baseball. After that, you could almost feel the air turn into the crisp October air this game deserved.