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Andrew Cuomo’s Charmin-Soft Answer To Lay-Up ‘Mets Or Yankees’ Question Should Be Immediately Disqualifying To Any True New Yorker

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The New York City mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo wraps up on Tuesday, June 24, with the latest polls showing the young, upstart New York State Assemblyman leading the alleged sexual harasser.

While the election will be decided a myriad of issues — mainly the affordability of New York City and whether or not the population of the world’s greatest city are willing to once again hand their government to the billionaire class — a recent question about the Mets and Yankees posed to both Mamdani and Cuomo highlighted just how different the two Democrats are.

Mamdani, while admitting he was a bit “fair weather”, unequivocally chose the Mets (Mamdani serves as an Assemblyman for Queens’ 36th district) and begged keep money to keep spending his money on the team and not political campaigns.

Cuomo, on the other hand, offered up the traditional politician non-answer and didn’t choose either.

What Cuomo’s answer ultimately represents is a lack of authenticity, which is almost the antithesis of what New York City stands for. If you can’t trust someone’s point of view on something as trivial as a baseball team — something in which EVERY native in the city has an opinion on — how can you trust them at all?

This isn’t even a political opinion on my behalf — this is life-long New Yorker opinion. There is not a single baseball fan living in the Tri-State area, let alone the Five Boroughs, that likes BOTH the Mets and the Yankees, regardless of if they’re working of the NYC Dept. of Sanitation or the Governor’s office. Just pick a team, dude!

To use the “you don’t pick among your children” deflection for a softball questions over baseball allegiances not only illustrates a certain sort of cowardice — “Let me just say the most vanilla thing possible as to not potentially upset anyone” — but it also displays a lack of conviction and belief in your opinions, and your ability to defend them.