Mike Lupica

The Yankees and Mets are watching the same terrific World Series the rest of us are watching, it just cost them a combined $600 million or so for their own viewing rights.

Woody Johnson is not just the worst and weakest owner in town, with a football team as bad right now as it’s ever been. He is one of the worst in New York sports history.

It is the coach’s job to figure it out now, so that 2-5 really doesn’t become 2-11. Or 3-10.

The great Vince Lombardi, a Giant assistant coach once before he went off to make history in Green Bay, is often credited with saying that hope is not a strategy.

It’s the ending that doesn’t change for the Yankees. Groundhog Day again yesterday. Long winter just beginning.

For this one Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, a dead zone in pro football for far too long, the Giants were them.

The lasting October image for another Brian Cashman/Aaron Boone Yankee team was Aaron Judge stranded on the bases as Cody Bellinger became the Blue Jays’ 10th strikeout victim in Game 4.

There are more games for the Yankees to play, maybe all the way out of October.

All you could ask for, all you could want. Yankees and the Sox. Game No. 163 on 161st.

The Giants are even more desperate to be right about an Ole Miss quarterback named Jaxson Dart than they were with an Ole Miss quarterback named Eli Manning, who would become the greatest at the po…