Well, it could have been worse. After all the talk about the Mets needing to do something, they did indeed do somethine--they split their most recent four-game series against hated Atlanta. Click here, here, here and here for the recaps. First the good: Glavine looked okay, but the Mets simply got killed by Smoltz. Pedro of course looked good as well. The bad: except for yesterday's hitting frenzy, the Mets seem to have misplaced their bats. Did they leave them in Pittsburgh before the All-Star break?

There's still much ball to play, but splitting against your arch enemy when you're at home and in dire need of making up some ground is not the way to make it to October.

Where does that leave us? Again at .500, the Mets have once again achieved mediocrity. The season isn't over, but chances to gain ground in the standings are going to get increasingly rare as the weeks roll on.

Base10 also caught our uptown cousins, the New York Yankees, as they played the Red Sox. Pitching for the Yanks was Al Leiter who was acquired in a recent trade with Florida. We love Al and he pitched pretty well against Boston. The Yanks won the game and the series taking three of four and remain a strong contender in their division being one-half game out of first.

In other sports news, Lance Armstrong is completely dominating the Tour de France. Surprisingly, Ivan Basso of Italy has emerged as his only legitimate challenger, although he is behind by 3:46. It looks like Lance is a shoe-in as long as he doesn't crash. The only stage of interest left is the individual time trial on Saturday, the penultimate stage of the Tour.

In the golf world, Tiger Woods simply ran away with the British Open. This was an unusually low scoring Open IMAO. While no golf expert, Base10 noticed that the course picked for the Open this year was usually fast. Genreally British Opens are pretty tough, leaving players fighting it out for par. Such was not the case this year. Not taking anything away from Tiger, but a fast course simply plays to his stregths.

In Jets news, CB Donnie Abraham retired. The Jets acquired CB Pete Hunter from Dallas for a conditional draft pick. Hunter seems like a good player, but he tore his ACL last year. Remember, preseason football begins two weeks from this coming Saturday and the Jets start camp on 7/29. W00t!

- posted by Base10 @ 11:07 AM