Juan Soto was in the Mets’ lineup on Thursday after a brief injury scare, albeit as the designated hitter, so it’s not all bad news in Queens ahead of the season’s first Subway Series, with cross-town hostilities renewing at Citi Field on Friday. The Mets even swept a series for the first time this season , beating the Tigers 9-4 as call-up A.J. Ewing homered. So there is at least some small degree of positivity on their side of the city going into the measuring-stick series against the Yankees . A not-so-bad week for the Mets aside, the big-picture story headed into a weekend in which baseball will take center stage in the city — depending on how long the Knicks need to wait to learn their conference finals opponent — is the total divergence of the two local franchises since 2024, when for one glorious week, a Subway Series World Series looked to be in the cards.…