## I still can't see it. Sure the Yankees-Mets series is always interesting, but the only value is bragging rights. My biggest complaint is that the match-ups create unfair advantages for some teams. This year the Yankees faced Cincinnati (1-2), Atlanta (4-2), Washington (3-0) and the Mets (5-1). All four teams had a winning record and now have a combined .549 winning percentage. The Yanks went 13-5 against them, which means their overall percentage is .567, not including their record against the Yanks. So NY had to beat some of the best the NL had to offer. So who played teams like the Cubs (24-48), San Diego (26-47), Houston (30-42) or Colorado (27-44), an overall .372 percentage? Texas, who has the best record in baseball, played three of them and went 13-5 against them. Still sound fair to you?
## The Yanks went 5-1 against the Mets, beating RA Dickey in the last game, even though he didn't personally get the loss. They did it with the long ball, hitting 15 home runs in the six games, including 7 at the imposing Citifield. The Mets mouthy closer, Frank Francisco, who called the Yanks 'chickens' and 'whiners,' did get the save on Friday, but has since gone on the DL. It supposedly was a muscle strain on his left side, but it could have been an over-worked tongue.
## The Red Sox finally concluded a trade sending Kevin Youkilis to the White Sox for two meaningless players. As usual, now that they have separated, the real stories between Boston and a released player come out. Youkilis apparently has not, and never will, excuse Valentine for his remarks about Kevin's efforts. Most of the time, when a player is on the trading block, a team will play him so that teams can get an idea of his value. Boston doesn't do that. They sit a player to decrease his value, just to embarrass him. Even Kevin Youkilis brother, Scott, a restaurant owner in San Francisco, tweeted that he hoped his brother was headed to Chicago and followed with, "I wonder why? Bobby V is a joke." White Sox GM, Kenny Williams talked to Kevin after the trade and said, "I can't tell you exactly what he said," Williams said. "He wants to come in and he wants to prove some people wrong." The next White Sox series in Boston should prove very interesting.
## Buster Olney did a column on the 'Most Dominant Pitches Of All Time,' based on the opinion of some baseball evaluators. The winner was Mariano Rivera's cutter. From one evaluator: "Mariano's cutter is the single most devastating pitch in MLB history. Probably the only pitch that was equally predictable and devastating." What was interesting was that there were votes for Gaylord Perry's Petroleum Product Ball and Whitey Ford's Mudball.
***THEY SAID IT***
"The Toronto Blue Jays pitching in brief: Right-handed, left-handed and short-handed." -- RJ Currie
"Hear about the Cubs infielder who got caught with a foreign substance in his mitt last week? It was a baseball." -- Dwight Perry
"Dale Earnhardt Jr. has finally ended his four-year victory drought: "This is the most important development in NASCAR Nation since the advent of naked-lady mudflaps." -- Mike Bianchi
"Its gotten so bad for the Florida Marlins, who have now lost 15 of their last 17 games, that today Fidel Castro expressed amazement that Ozzie Guillen was still in power." -- Marc Ragovin
"The 2011-12 NBA season is finally over. The 2012-13 NBA preseason starts next week." -- Janice Hough
"NY Mets closer, Frank Francisco better not lay an egg in his next appearance." -- TC Chong
"The Omaha Storm Chasers have been sold to a New York man. Now he’s claiming he was duped. After seeing all the kids, the rides and the games, the new guy thought he was buying an amusement park. “Baseball team? What baseball team?” -- Brad Dickson
"Oklahoma City Thunder point guard and former UCLA Bruin Russell Westbrook, after Game 2 of the NBA Finals: “I’m not making no adjustments.” So while it’s been a big week for the UCLA basketball and baseball programs, the English department just took one on the chin." -- Brad Dickson
"Roger Clemens is innocent. Shockingly, the Justice Department has become the Washington Generals of the legal system. Heck, those fellas couldn’t convict Benedict Arnold of treason." -- Norman Chad
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