I'd just call it the CanMex Cup. But I'm boring. I couldn't even find any clever hashtags from the World Cup qualifying match they played earlier this year.
It's difficult because the two countries have very little to do with each other, historically. Mexico's current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has quipped that their relationship in the pre-NAFTA era was of "mutual benign neglect."
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"Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket."
-Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason
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