From last week, but if you haven’t read it yet it is a must-read. (And not to mention they even ruined the uniforms)
When the decade began, the Mets still “owned the town,” drawing 2.73 million fans to Shea in 1990. In contrast, the Yankees struggled to break 2 million in attendance that year, then fell below that mark for the next few seasons. Once the Mets became a joke (and an unfunny one at that), the tide began to turn. It helped that the “lifetime ban” posed against Steinbrenner in 1990 allowed the Yankees’ front office to function normally for the first time in decades. With a mixture of homegrown talent and judicious free agent pickups, the Yanks began to win again. They surpassed the Mets in attendance in 1993 and have never trailed since.
