SNY: Screw Non-Yankee (fans). At least, that’s what I thought the network should have stood for at Binghamton University last week.

Not being able to watch the New York Mets on campus Monday was, just like Yogi Berra said, dÃ.éjÃ.à vu all over again. The school did not carry MSG Network last spring, when the Mets played a majority of their games on that channel. For a month and a half, Mets fans had to either go to the local bars to watch their team play or follow the games online using a refresh button. Luckily, on the Thursday of finals week (the last possible day anyone can have a final) we suddenly got MSG back.

This season started just as miserably. The Mets moved to SportsNet New York (SNY) in March, but Campus Telecommunications never added the new channel to our cable lineup. So on Monday (opening day), I sat in front of my TV with one last glimmer of hope — ESPN. But as my clock struck 1 p.m., the “worldwide leader in sports” cut to a news conference about the women’s basketball NCAA finals. I highly doubt that many BU students cut class to find out how Maryland planned to stop Duke’s guards in the championship game, but MLB restrictions forced ESPN to black out the game in our area because local cable customers were supposed to get SNY.

At the time, I couldn’t have been more distraught. But then, later that night, the Public Access Station (channel 4 on campus) suddenly disappeared. In one of the greatest moves I have ever seen, the telecommunications department traded away 24 hours of oldie tunes for SportsNet New York.

Like the motto goes: “Ya Gotta Believe!”