Mets Undefeated… Sort Of
According to Mark Simon at ESPN the Mets have gone 12-0 on Tuesday home games this season. Too bad they couldn’t spread that around to some other days as well. More interesting stats from Simon can be found in his post on ESPN.com’s Mets Blog.
Mets Need To Add To Player Leadership
During last night’s game between the Mets and Phillies ESPN’s Jon Miller and Joe Morgan made the point (more than once) that the Mets team needs to man up. (That’s my interpretation. They didn’t say it exactly that way.) This is not a new concept. I’ve seen countless blog posts and Twitter messages saying the […]
My Take on Last Night’s ESPN Coverage
I enter any game I watch on television with a clear mind regarding the personalities who are calling the game for the network the game is on. This even goes for games that are broadcast on ESPN despite the almost universal negative reaction fans have to the announcing team of John Miller, Joe Morgan and […]
Manny Suspended for PEDs
According to the L.A. Times Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for use of performance enhancing drugs. Scott Boras, Ramirez’s agent, told ESPN’s Peter Gammons that Ramirez was taking a prescribed drug for a medical condition as opposed to steroids. There is no word as to what substance Ramirez was taking. […]
Reynolds Joins SNY
SNY has added former ESPN Baseball Tonight analyst Harold Reynolds to it’s pre- and post-game coverage. Reynolds will join Lee Mazzilli and Matt Yallof in the SNY studio for his first broadcast on Friday at 6:30. I liked Reynolds on BT and think this is a great hire for SNY.
Jim Caple on the Knuckleball
In ESPN Page 2 Jim Caple discusses Seattle Mariners knuckleballer R.A. Dickey and wonders why coahes don’t teach the knuckleball more
Crasnick on the Free Agent Pitching Market
Jerry Crasnick breaks the free agent pitching market down to 9 categories in an article at ESPN.com.
ESPN: Don’t Count Mets Out For Santana
ESPN.com has posted an article about why the Mets can’t be counted out of the Johan Santana sweepstakes.
ESPN Picks NL MVP
With the National League MVP award to be announced at 2:00 pm Eastern time today ESPN.com has posted their pick based on a poll of 20 of their writers. Jimmy Rollins was the runaway winner with 13 votes followed by Matt Holliday with 4 votes. Rounding out the field with 3 votes was the Mets […]
Crasnick on Boras
Jerry Crasnick writes about super agent Scott Boras’ really bad week last week. Crasnick analyzes Boras’ standing after the Alex Rodriguez debacle and firing by Kenny Rogers.
