The mayor was trying not to crack up.
I had arrived for an interview in Bill de Blasio’s City Hall office to find him wearing a Mets uniform over his shirt and tie. There was a hat to match. He looked toward two aides in the room.
“Just a typical day here at the office,” he said, his straight face breaking.
So, from the start, it was an atypical meeting — a Red Sox fan in a Mets jersey, a photo opportunity without cameras and, chiefly, a mayoral meditation on the prevalence of raised middle fingers at ballparks.