How 'Bout Them Mets!

Base10 previoulsy remarked about Saturday being a good sports day. Well Sunday was pretty good too!

• Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick for the men's title at Wimbledon. Base10 only caught a little of it unfortunately.
  
  
• The Tour de France continued yesterday with Lance Armstrong doing nothing unusual. Base10 caught the replay coverage and the final sprint was exciting. The stage was won by Jaan Kirsipuu, an Estonian. The overall lead is still with Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara. Base10 got a kick out of the ESPN headline on the WAP portal of his phone yesterday. It was something like "Armstrong Falls to Third in Tour de France." The story itelf explained that the early stage sprinters have no chance to win the event overall, but that choice of headline made Base10 laugh since it shows no understanding of the event whatsoever.
  
  
• Greece beat Portugal for the Euro Cup. Base10 doesn't follow soccer much, bt thinks it's pretty cool that Portugal has never played in a final and Greece was a 100-to-1 shot at the beginning of the tournament. That is what sports are all about.

By far the biggest event of the day, at least from Base10's perspective, was the Mets win over the Yankees. No. It didn't happen! A .500 team from the worst division can't possibly sweep the greatest team in baseball. No. Never. Can't happen!

But indeed, it did. The Mets did the unthinkable and took three from the Yanks at Shea yesterday. This was the first time the Mets have swept the Yankees since interleague play started in 1997. Good for the boys from Queens, but their real test is going to be the four game series they play against Philly starting today. Base10 is not entirely surprised though. The Mets went into yesterday's game with nothing to lose. They had aready won two and evened up the series. The Yanks on the other hand needed the win more to avoid getting swept after their rout of Boston during the week.

And in an odd twist of fate, the rosters for the All-Star Teams have been released and Mike Piazza will likely catch for Roger Clemens on the National League team. Sports fans will recall the history between the two including Clemen's beaning of PIazza in the head in 2000.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:07 AM