Let's start with hockey since I haven't had a chance to write about that since I started this blog. It's great to see the league going again. The Rangers have signed Marek Malik, Martin Straka, and Kevin Weekes.
First, I like Malik as he's a pretty reliable defenseman. With Malik, Poti, Kasparminus, Maxim, Tyutin, and Purinton on defense, that's not too bad. You've got mobile puck movers and you've got some muscle. The question is do you have the discipline?
Weekes was necessary. Now I'm all for young guys playing. But I don't feel good throwing 2 NHL rookies right into the fire at goaltender. Montoya, Lundqvist, and Blackburn (if he can ever play again) are just too inexperienced right now. It's good this team has a solid young veteran who can be spectacular when he's on.
Straka makes me uneasy. He had 2 very disappointing years and is 32 years old. But his best year came 5 years ago playing with Jaromir Jagr in Pittsburgh. Maybe reuniting with Jagr in New York will do some good.
Both the Giants and Jets wrapped up mini-camp. Good news. Nobody's out for the year yet. The pre-season starts in 2 weeks. Can you believe it? It's coming too soon. I still think the Giants will have the better year...
Larry Brown coaching the Knicks. My concern is will he be able to change the roster he already is stuck with? And will he make Isaiah make more personnel moves? And not just the players. How about the coaching staffs? There are a lot of god young players on this team. If we could get rid of say Tim Thomas, that would be good. I don;t want to see Marbury, Crawford, and Richardson all on the floor at the same time. They'll need three basketballs with that offense. And none of them know anything about playing defense. This will take at least 3 years of rebuilding. Hopefully, Mr. Brown will stick around long enough to see this team turn things around.
And how can I forget the Mets? Ah, the sweet orange and blue. The biggest tease since Y2K. Yes, they rallied and beat Milwaukee tonight. That's all well and good. But dropping 5 of 7 games to Colorado and Houston is not acceptable.
And I am just about out of patience with our 119 million dollar man Carlos Beltran. He goes 2-12 at bat in the first 3 games in Houston, his old park. The Mets were facing the wild card leaders. If there ever was a time for Beltran to step up, this would be it. And outside of 2 hits in the last game (the only win the Mets had), he was putrid. And tonight the Mets had 18 hits. That's the most they've had all season. And do you know how many of those hits Number 15 had?
ZERO! None. He went 0-for-6, including double plays in his final 2 at bats. An absolute joke. Nothing more to say. A joke is what Beltran has been in his first season in Flushing. This could be Kaz Matsui to the 50th power!
The Mets need a 9 out of 10 game winning streak or something to get back in this wild card race. Though it's early, there are just too many teams ahead of them. And they absolutely need to take 2 of 3 from the Cubs this weekend. Luckily Heath Bell is in the minors so he won't be giving up any gopher balls to Derrek Lee.
Can we put Aaron Heilman back in the rotation, please Willie?
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