If Major League Baseball undergoes radical realignment and puts the Yankees and Mets in the same division down the road, their fans will have to “relearn who to love and who to hate” in terms of opposing teams.

Following Rob Manfred’s recent comments about MLB expansion that would lean into Eastern and Western conferences, one often-circulated proposed four-team division would be a heavyweight quartet featuring the Yankees, Mets, Phillies and Red Sox.

Giancarlo Stanton keeps on climbing. The New York Yankees' slugger has moved up another spot on the MLB all-time home run leaderboard. When he hit his second homer of the night Tuesday, Stanton passed Dave Kingman to move into 43rd place in major league history.

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The Yankees and Mets already have one of the better rivalries in MLB due to having a pair of ravenous fan bases loyal to their clubs. And that is just from a couple of series per year. However, playing each other 13 times a year if they were in the same division might make Yankees vs. Mets even bigger than Yankees vs. Red Sox and Mets vs. Braves.

The Mets could try to steal another star from the Yankees like Juan Soto in the MLB offseason. The Mets could deal another blow to their cross-town rivals, the Bronx Bombers, as th