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.
Crasnick: Banny On The Verge
Jerry Crasnick at ESPN.com has written about several young pitchers on the verge of something big. Coming in at fourth on the list (out of 9) is Brian Bannister. About the former Met Crasnick says “Outside of Greg Maddux, there might not be a pitcher in the game right now so consistently described as “cerebral.” […]
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 […]
Beckett’s Former Love Singing National Anthem Tonight
You’ve got to love the great psyche out move the Cleveland Indians are pulling for tonight’s game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox. Josh Beckett is slated to start tonight for the Sawx and the Indians got his ex-girlfriend, an up and coming country to singer named Danielle Peck, […]
Kurkjian on Switch Hitting
Tim Kurkjian has an article on ESPN.com about switch hitters. Former Met Carlos Baerga and current Met Jose Valentin are quoted.
Dontrelle Willis
In his latest insider column on espn.com Jerry Crasnick has a great profile on the dominant force that is Dontrelle Willis.
Of Selig and Steroids Policies
I found this story on espn.com. It discusses the MLB steroid policy and quotes commissioner Bud Selig as saying the policy is working. I beg to differ. One major leaguer and 38 minor leaguers have been suspended as a result of testing. This shows, perhaps, that the testing is working but that has nothing to […]
