Sunday, May 18, 2008

The only plus to interleague play

I don't follow the AL at all. I mean I hardly know who's on the teams in the American League. The only thing I find interesting about interleague play is that I always hear at least one name of a former NL player that I'd forgotten about. Take last night's games, for example.

Thanks to the fact the Mets played early, I tuned in to hear Philadelphia against Toronto. There's Lyle Overbay. There's A.J. Burnett. And, best of all, there's Armando Benitez. Benitez came into a 4-1 game in the 7th and by the time he was gone (one out later) the tying run was on third and Utley was at the plate. Sheesh. That guy really hates the Mets. Anyway, the Jays got out of that jam and put the game away with a couple in the 9th.