Do you hear a low, distant rumble? Could it be a Subway Series heading to New York? The Yankees and Mets are closer to a possible showdown in the World Series than they’ve been in more than two decades. Back in 2000 when the two hometown teams last faced off in the World Series — in their only-ever meeting in the championship round — they were led by superstars like Derek Jeter and Mike Piazza. The Yanks prevailed four games to one. Will MVP contenders Aaron Judge and Francisco Lindor now lead the two local franchises back to another epic rematch? The possibility has the Big Apple buzzing with excitement. Aaron Judge of the Yankees, left, takes a lead off first base during a regular season Subway Series game against the Mets at Citi Field on June 25, 2024, as the Mets’ Pete Alonso mans first base. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) “It would be good to see the Yankees-Mets run it back again,” said Yankees fan Jay Williams, 36, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Saturday. “It’s good for the whole city to see that rivalry play out.” Another Series showdown between the Amazin’s and Bronx Bombers would be huge, said Mets fan Andres Prince, 62, of Jackson Heights, who watched his team play in the 2015 World Series and still has the Mets cap he bought back then. “It’s good for the city,” Prince said. “It’s good for baseball. It’s good for everybody.” Fan Andres Prince wears the Mets cap he bought during the 2015 World Series. (Rebecca White for New York Daily News) Brooklyn electrician and Mets fan Carlisle Kelly, 50, had a similar view. “It’s a win for the entire city because, no matter what, a New York team is winning,” he said — though adding that “the Mets need to get their payback” for the 2000 series loss. Another Mets fan, Park Slope resident Felix Rodriguez, said he went to the Yankees’ victory parade in 2000, even after his team lost, “just in support of the city in general.” “People were going crazy. Everyone had a blast that year,” Rodriguez, 44, said. “I was rooting for the Mets, but they lost. Hoping, this year we can possibly get that revenge.” But, he added, let’s take it one day at a time, and watch how the Mets do this week in the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees, meanwhile, still need to win the American League Championship Series versus the Cleveland Guardians. Brooklyn electrician Carlisle Kelly (left) and Drew Ifill are big-time Mets fans and hope for a rematch between the Yankees and Mets. (Nicholas Williams for New York Daily News) That talk of revenge and payback is the reason Tommy Silk, a New York City tour guide wearing a Yankees cap, said he is actually rooting against a Subway Series rematch. “I don’t want one because, if the Mets win, I will never hear the end of it and I can’t stand that,” said Silk, 34. “I think that would be the worst-case scenario,” the Brooklyn resident said, adding his family has been Yankees fans for nearly a century, since the 1930s. Brooklyn resident Ralph O’Neal, 74, has his bases covered, so to speak, if there’s a Subway Series. “I’m both a Yankees and Mets fan, so I really don’t care who would win,” O’Neal said. “It’s all a win for the New York.” Mets fan Paddy Teehan, owner of Station Bar on 61st St. near Roosevelt Ave. in Woodside, Queens, says a Subway Series would be “great for business” and that the city’s baseball fever already has people happy. (Nicholas Williams for New York Daily News) Paddy Teehan, 42, owner of Station Bar, on 61st St. near Roosevelt Ave. in Woodside, Queens, said his place is a big Mets bar. He came to the city from Offaly, Ireland, 12 years ago and within six months was bleeding blue and orange. “It’d be great for business,” Teehan, who lives in Manhattan, said of a Subway Series. “Not just for business, it’s great for the mood. “You just notice people are coming in, they’re just happy, they’re talking about the Mets, talking about the Yankees. With everything going on in the world and such and the election coming up … people are smiling. “We have a lot of Yankees fans come in here, too,” he admitted, “but we prioritize the Mets over ’em.” Conversely, Tommy Skia, 63, the owner of Woodside Pizzeria, on 60th St. near Queens Blvd., immigrated here from Greece 40 years ago and the Yankees quickly became his team. “My godfather was a Yankee fan, so he took me to Yankee games,” he said. “I mean, I root for the Mets but I’m a Yankee fan.” As for how far the two teams will go, he said, “I mean, nobody expect the Mets to be where they are right now. The Yankees everybody expected them to get that far, even the next step.” Robert Leibowitz of Brooklyn shows his Subway Series helmet at Yankee Stadium in 2000. The possibility of another World Series showdown between the Yanks and Mets has the Big Apple abuzz with excitement. (Mike Albans / New York Daily News) Rob Laney, 51, from Alpha, NJ, was at a bar in Woodside Saturday waiting for his wife. They were heading to JFK to fly to LA to see the Mets’ first gave versus the Dodgers on Sunday. “I’ve been following the Mets 40 years and the last few weeks have been the best, the best baseball I’ve ever seen. I get choked up,” he said, becoming teary-eyed. “I get emotional because you think of all the people that you were there with [watching Mets games] … and they’re not here anymore, like uncles and fathers and all those memories come back.” “I don’t know, it’s like I’ve conquered all my emotions, but baseball I can’t conquer. It just takes over.” Laney hates how overpriced ball games have become, not to mention World Series tickets. But he won’t be deterred. “I’ll have to go,” he declared. “[When] I grew up, I had these great seats, we didn’t pay a lot for. The thought of being in the upper deck watching it, I can’t do it. I’ll find the money.”