[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25314]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               GO YANKEES, GO METS--BUT WHO TO ROOT FOR?

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, this is an exciting time for baseball fans in 
New York. For the first time since the 1950s, we have a very real 
chance to have a subway series. In the 1950s, the Brooklyn Dodgers and 
the New York Giants baseball team routinely played the New York Yankees 
in the subway series, and now we have a real chance for the New York 
Mets and the New York Yankees to play each other in the subway series.
  I know there are some naysayers out there who are saying well, the 
Mets lost the first two games, so things do not look very well. But I 
want to remind everybody that in 1986, the world champion New York Mets 
also lost the first two games of the world series.
  As a Bronx boy who represents the Bronx, who grew up within walking 
distance of Yankee stadium, I am very, very proud of the Yankees; and I 
have a bet with my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey), on the Boston-Yankees playoffs game.
  We are very, very happy in New York. We look forward to a World 
Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, and I will 
worry about who to root for when that happens.
  Go Yankees; go Mets. 1999 is the year.

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