this weekend in baseball

i'm not even going to touch on the nba finals, hopefully choi will blog about them at some point as he likely watched at least a bit of them whereas i saw zero of them and then from game two on didn't even both reading wrap-ups of the game (too boring). so i'm gonna say a little about the weekend in baseball... in super short form:

(1) yankees - mets. the mets were 1-9 in their last 10 heading in. the bronx bombers had won 9 in a row and had clemens going in game one. so who wins game one? the mets. however, still not the most interesting match-up of the weekend...

(2) dodgers - angels. this is where it's at. even espn is promoting it... and if something bumps espn from shamelessly promoting the new york showdown, then it must be good. the angels are perhaps the hottest team in baseball over the last few weeks and the dodgers are leading what i say is the best division in baseball. possibly world series match-up? eh, maybe. it's still only june.

(3) the cardinals. i can't not post about this. you let the royals and a's score 10+ (17 and 14 respectively) against you in the last two games. you somehow still have kip wells in your rotation despite having 11 losses? i just don't understand what is happening here. maybe larussa is intentionally throwing the season to force the ownership to spend money on player personnel? or maybe this is what happens when you anoint kip wells your #2 starter. sad thing is the team keeps showing little reasons to hope when wainwright and thompson pitch... and then you have to run out wells and everybody on the team looks like they'd rather be in budapest than at the ballpark playing behind him.

-riley.