Weekend Sports Roundup
Base10's beloved Mets were rained out last night, but will face the Giants today at one o'clock today, and they have a double-header at 4PM and 8PM on Sunday. In any event the Mets won the series against Arizona. Click here, here and here for game summaries. Click here for a preview of this afternoon's game. The amazing thing about the Mets (I just can't stop writing puns today) is that inspite of good fortune, they are only a couple of games above .500 in an amazingly tight division. It's still anybody's ballgame.

Meanwhile, our uptown cousins, the Yankees have been struggling. The Bombers lost last night to Minnesota (click here) bringing their losing streak up to 6. This of course follows the dismal sweep by the Kansas City Royals--currently the worst team in baseball. Now wait a minute. If you are swept by the worst team in baseball doesn't that then make you the worst team in baseball? The logic seems flawless, but I'm sure that the Boss disagrees and reports are that he said words to that effect to Torre and Cashman. I'm sure he didn't use such a logical argument, though. The Yanks play at 7PM tonight and 1PM tomorrow.

Other sports items of interest include the French Open, if tennis is your thing. Base10 is watching the women's final as he types this and the men's final is tomorrow morning. (Curse the French for preempting Meet the Press, but that's another blog entry). Click here for the woman's score. This link takes you to the Yahoo Tennis page which has a link live scores which are, alas, in French. Sacre blue!

Also today, the US national soccer team faces Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier. Click here for a preview. The American team has historically done very well at home, and this match is in Salt Lake City. Althought the US is in good shape, they could use a bounce back after a loss in a friendly match with England.

The PGA Memorial Tournament is going on this weekend for golf fans. Significant events include the likelihood that this will be the last US tournament game played by Jack Nicklaus, who missed the cut by six strokes. Speaking of cuts, Tiger Woods made it after missing his first cut two weeks ago.

There's no real NFL news of late. It seems to be business as usual. You know: arrests, drug test failures, your occassional free agent signings. That's it for sports right now. Time to gear up for the game!
- posted by Base10 @ 10:03 AM