M-E-T-S S-W-E-E-P

What a perfect way to celebrate Independence Day... with one of the sweeter baseball-related days I've had in years.

First, the Mets sweep the f'ing Yankees, beating them in the season series just a year after going 0-6.



On top of that, Richard Hidalgo done blow'd up. The former 40-HR threat was awful with the Astros this year, but has completely turned his career around in basically two weeks at Shea. If he keeps hitting half this well and the pitching staff holds up, there could be October baseball just off Roosevelt Avenue this year.

Still sweet, but almost an afterthought at this point, my whatifsports.com team (Prescription Cowbell) blew through the first round of the playoffs in a surprisingly easy four games. On to the LCS...

By the way, I've never really been tempted to photoshop one of those "PWN3D!" pictures, but I've seen a couple good ones of Steinbrenner recently... and I'm thinking about it now.