NL East Projected Standings
| Team | Win | Loss | GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| z-Atlanta | 100 | 62 | — |
| x-Florida | 98 | 64 | 2 |
| NY Mets | 85 | 77 | 15 |
| Philadelphia | 79 | 83 | 21 |
| Washington | 74 | 88 | 26 |
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A Boy and Bobby Murcer
Our baby sitter Alison has an expression that my wife and I have grown to love: sharing is caring. And while she uses it mainly to referee possession disputes between our 3 year-old twins, I like to think she also means something more profound: sharing is the ultimate demonstration of love and caring for small children. If you need proof, witness the bond that toddlers have with those who play with them on the floor. Dropping to their altitude elicits smiles and offers of everything from toys to soggy crackers.
So it is that merely sharing a first name with the Yankee centerfielder in the early seventies was enough for me to become an adoring, mildly obsessed fan. Bobby Murcer was a pillar of my childhood.
Even though there is more than a foot of snow outside my door, it is once again time to start talkin’ baseball. And what better way to start off the spring, than to compare the Sox and Yankees? Both teams certainly made headlines this winter and there are a lot of new faces to be accounted for. Let’s start with a position by position analysis.
Is it really necessary to have a captain in baseball? No, good god, no it isn’t. There are certain players who are so influential to a team that they are named captain. One is Jeter (My stomach actually hurts now), and it took him 5 years to be named captain. He is the quintessential Yankee, and that is why he was named captain.
Willie Randolph has decided that he will look to name a captain for his “new” Mets. But who on this team can you immediately say is captain worthy? Who is the quintessential Met? Well, the quintessential Met would be a player like Eddie Murray, Roberto Alomar, or Bobby Bonilla. These were the type guys that were great on other teams before coming to the Mets. I swear to god, the Mets are where good players go to die.
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The Trot Nixon situation
I’ve been kept awake thinking of how to write about the latest round of prepubescent bitching between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
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Walker: The Cubs new captain
With Sammy Sosa gone, Todd Walker is ready to be a leader in the Cubs clubhouse
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It’s the Juice: Part Deux
I’m sorry; I realized that I am part of this steroid machine. But after seeing Bonds’ press conference last night, I can’t help but write about steroids one last time.
Last night I turned on SportsCenter only to see a gigantic Barry Bonds front and center addressing a very anxious media. Did anyone else notice that Bonds’ head took up the entire television screen — you couldn’t even see the curtain behind him? For a second I thought he was going to bulge through the screen, warping my T.V forever.
The 2005 New and (Hopefully) Improved Mets
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From the End Spring New Beginnings
Watching and reliving the broadcast of “World Series Winter” on NESN the past few weeks, all the emotion of last season’s playoffs came screaming back from what seemed like only a month in hibernation. But as the Red Sox players, coaches, and the following horde of media flock to the Gulf Coast of Florida, the cycle begins again.
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It’s the Juice!
All right, I can’t take it anymore. I get home from work and all I want to do is put on SportsCenter and catch up on the day in sports. But no, this can’t happen any more, not since Jose Canseco had to write his ridiculous book. I don’t care if it is true or not, the man has ruined my sports watching.
All I want to do is turn on ESPN or Fox Sports and be able to see an hour of what’s going on in the sports world. I sit behind a desk all day thinking of what I can do to prevent myself from going insane. Sports is my salvation, my equalizer — but ever since Canseco’s book and “60 Minutes” interview it seems that is all that is going to be on the sports shows. So now I often find myself watching a show like E! TV’s “101 Reasons why the 90’s ruled.” This is the best example I have that I am losing my sanity because of this steroid controversy.