Yankees and Mets fill early ESPN 'Sunday Night Baseball' schedule
Mets centerfielder Juan Lagares and Yankees centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury are seen in this composite image. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke; Getty Images / Hannah Foslien
ESPN announced its early season "Sunday Night Baseball" schedule and, as is customary, the New York nines are well represented.
So those of us with jobs or who attend school on Mondays ought to root for MLB's upcoming initiatives to speed up games to have an early effect.
Three of the four Sunday night games between April 12 and May 3 will feature the Yankees and/or Mets:
Red Sox at Yankees April 12
Mets at Yankees April 26
Yankees at Red Sox May 3
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.