Baseball Today: Friday, September 5
Projo Sox Blog —
... for the wild card, after they lost their fourth in a row, 5-2 to the Padres. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
PERSONAL RACE: The once-proud Braves are in a battle to stay out of the N.L. East cellar. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
EDGE, METS: David Pinto of Baseball Musings examines the major stats of the two teams and concludes New York should beat out Philadelphia in the N.L. East. But Ted Berg of sny.tv isn't exactly sure how the Mets are winning.
HERE AND THERE: Bobby Abreu ...
SNY: Berg: There’s something happening here…Why Mets have improved ain’t exactly clear
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
SNY: Berg: There’s something happening here…Why Mets have improved ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a Juggs gun over there on Petey Telling me I got to beware But could it be as simple as a managerial change? Color me dubious. There’s no question that Manuel has changed the attitude and dialogue around the Mets, and it’s impossible to place a value on that. But to even suggest that Delgado was purposefully tanking it under Willie Randolph is as offensive to Delgado as it is patently absurd. No Major League Baseball player tanks it, ever. It just doesn’t happen. You ...
amLinks: Elite, October, Puppies and Daffodils
MetsBlog.com —
The first-place Mets (79–61) will begin a three-game series against the second-place Phillies (76–64) in Shea Stadium tonight.
Steve Popper lists three reasons why the Mets will win this series, in a post to his blog for the Bergen Record.
In a post to Amazin Avenue, Eric Simon writes, ‘However reluctant we may be to admit it, the Mets are one of the elite teams in baseball,’ noting how there are no true powerhouse teams in baseball.
Adding to this point, in the New York Post, Joel Sherman writes, “The world has opened up to the Mets, or more appropriately the World Series has. Suddenly ...
