Sports Weekend
This past weekend was a great two days of sports. First in tennis, Raphael Nadal--the clay court uber-player--won the French Open men's final. It is his second French Open and was the third title for woman's winner Justine Henin-Hardenne. Tennis fans can look forward to Wimbledon which starts on June 26.

The FIFA World Cup also started over the weekend. Base10 is actually in a pick-em' pool (for charity, of course) and is so far doing quite well. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the US team, playing right now. They are currently down 2-0 against the Czech Republic.

Not that Base10 follows it much, but the NBA finals are going on too, pitting the resurgent Pat Riley against wunderkind Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks. Unfortunately for Riley, the Mavs seem way to powerful. They destroyed Miami 99-85 last night in a game that was never even close.

Last. but certainly not least, the Mets are on a tear. Now consider if I uttered these words last season: The Mets played a seven-game West Coast series and won six. You'd be asking what bizarro-baseball world I was living in. The usual comments following west coast road trips involve remarks like,
West Coast series are always hard.

But the Mets not only won the series against San Francisco, they swept a four-game series against the Diamondbacks, absolutely smoking them 15-2 in yesterday's game.

As of today, the Mets are still in first place in the East and are also the best team in the National League. They are ten games ahead of Atlanta and 6 and 1/2 above Philly (who they face starting tomorrow). It is a good feeling, but be cautious, Met fans. It would be very easy to collapse as the season progresses. That being said, Willie Randolph and Omar Minaya appear to really know what they are doing. As it's turning out, this may really be the Met's year.
- posted by Base10 @ 12:37 PM