The Yankees can emulate the Hollywood thieves in the gigantic World Series

(Seriously, LA can't even grow its own celebrity fans!)

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Now New York and Los Angeles – the 212 versus the 213 – will once again engage in a 3,000-mile tug-of-war in a best-of-seven series. If we count all of our various city-adjacent teams, including East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Anaheim, California, this is what the scoreboard looks like in the final rounds of the season:

California Pretty Boys 5, New York Tough Guys 5.

So this World Series will decide (for now) this magnificent best-of-eleven series that began in 1963, when the Dodgers and Yankees met for the first time in a Red-Eye Series rather than a Subway Series and LA was the fading one Dynasty defeated. The Yankees returned the favor in 1977 and 1978, and the Dodgers made up for it by winning the World Series in 1981.

The Knicks won two of the three NBA Finals they played with the Lakers between 1970 and 1973; 29 years later, the Lakers defeated the Jason Kidd Nets in the basketball portion of the rivalry. And while the Devils beat the Ducks in an entertaining Stanley Cup Final in 2003, 11 years later when the big-city teams met, it was Kings 4, Rangers 1.

Five to five.

And now this.

Best-of-seven to determine the best-of-11. These teams were able to see each other up close at Yankee Stadium back in June, with the Dodgers winning two of three games. The signature game was the first game, Friday June 7th. It remained scoreless until the 11th inning. The Dodgers scored twice in the leadoff on a two-run double by Teoscar Hernandez. Aaron Judge drove in the ghost runner at the bottom, but initially got stuck on the decisive run.

It felt to me that evening, that weekend, as if the two best teams in the game had just measured each other up; 4 ½ months later it turned out to be exactly that. Judge hit three home runs in the series. Hernandez scored twice. Shohei Ohtani only managed 2:13.

Two boxers sizing each other up.

Two cities with a long and sometimes contentious relationship with each other. LA really never stopped trolling or stealing from us. Eventually, Don Draper had to move from New York to Los Angeles to come up with “I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.” Oh well. What is past is prologue. What lies ahead could be as intense a World Series as we've seen in a long time. That's completely enough.