Wait, is this something Mets fans are legitimately concerned about? Or is this one of those New York Post Fear Index things, where the media works to get people riled up about something just for the sake of riling them up?

I’m not saying it’s that, because I certainly wouldn’t put it past Mets fans to get all broken up about the idea of Jeter going on the DL today, then joining the Yanks at Citi Field in early July to gloriously slap one over the second baseman’s head for the 3,000th time.

But if that’s the case, get a hold of yourselves. No matter what you think of his whole shtick, Jeter is undeniably a great player and he’s going to notch his 3,000th somewhere. If it happens at Citi Field, it happens at Citi Field. Who cares? Honestly — and I don’t really care too much about hit totals — I think it’d be kind of cool. What, you’re scared the Yankee fans are going to be mean to you about it?

If a Yankee fan takes time away from celebrating Jeter’s accomplishment to express any sort of nasty anti-Mets sentiment, that Yankee fan probably has some sort of compensation issues that run a whole hell of a lot deeper than baseball. Smirk it off and know that while the 3,000 hits in part indicate how great and consistent a player the Yankees’ captain has been, reaching the plateau also means he’s now very old in baseball years.