a little embarassing... for them.

Game 14: Mets 11, Marlins 3
10-4 for the season

one almost feels bad for the Marlins after this short series-- they were outscored 20-5 in just two games. I'm glad for the Mets that being in the warm weather worked out so well for them, and almost feel badly that they have to come back to 60-70 degree weather in NY over the next three days.

El Duque had 10 strikeouts in 7 innings pitched, and allowed only 2 hits in that time, both in the first innings. I've said it before, and will say it again as many times as events allow-- watching good pitching is one of the true pleasures in life. Thank goodness for DVR!

I listened to a lot of tonight's game on the radio (don't ask), and remembered how much I enjoy that-- you get so much better color from the radio than you ever do from TV, because the radio can't do re-plays and can't let the pictures speak for them. If you watch a game on DVR after having listened to a lot of it on the radio (not that you'd have any reason to do that... only crazy people do that, of course), you might really notice how much more the radio announcers discuss random stuff than the TV commentators do. For instance, the guys on FAN tonight discussed Jose Valentin's winter league team in Puerto Rico-- the one he owns and plays for a good lot of the time. You get some color on TV, and good color at that-- after all, it's Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez and I love them in a way that is adolescent in it's fervor. But you just hear more about everything on the radio than you do on TV.

I'm really looking forward to the series with Atlanta over the weekend, particularly the 70 degree and sunny weather we're going to have at the ballpark on Saturday!