IF David Newhan, most recently of Baltimore, has signed a one-year deal with the New York Mets. I don’t know if the left-handed hitter has a preference for uniform numbers, but Bill Pecota thinks he’ll love Joe McEwing’s 11.
This turned out to be a gainful weekend for a trio of ex-Mets. OF Roger Cedeno has miraculously been signed to a minor league deal by the Orioles (imagine the competition for that particular acquisition), and Shawn Estes — perhaps counting on Roger Clemens’ retirement or the Rockets’ return to the AL — has been picked up by the Padres, and Miguel “Burn Nightfire In” Cairo will have yet another campaign with the Yankees, this time at the bargain price of $750,000.
While I don’t usually think much of the Al Michaels/John Madden partnership on NBC, the former did have a nearly sublime comic moment during the first half of tonight’s Dallas/Seattle playoff game.
“Monday on ‘The Today Show’, Matt Lauer takes one for the team and learns what it’s like to get a hot flash.”(pause).
“I just read this stuff, folks.”
broadcasters getting meta. marv albert had a similar scenario go down during the same game on the radio broadcast, with his partner (i forget the name). it went something like:
marv: (introduces Rolaids Play of the Game) what’s your pick for the Rolaids Play of the Game, partner?
partner-guy: (lists off three different plays in disjointed, tangential fashion)
marv: are you sure you know what you’re doing here?
partner: let’s just call the whole damn game suitable for Rolaids (or something to that effect)
…guess you had to be there