Weekend Sports Wrapup

Subway Series II
This is the last year that the Mets and Yankees will face off with each other 6 times in the regular season as MLB is changing the amount of interleague play in the future. Next year, there will only be one series for the rulership of NY! So the Yankees swept the first one and they completed their dominance over their crosstown rivals last weekend. It wasn't a sweep this time as they dropped the first game 6-4 as Pettitte had a bad first inning. The Yankees made a threat in the 8th, but fell short by 2. The Saturday (4-3) and Sunday (6-5) games were both nailbiters, but it was one of those cases where I knew the Yankees were going to pull through. The Saturday game was a come-from-behind victory where the Yankees had nothing in the early innings. Then Ibanez tied with a 3-run HR and Chavez got the game winner in the 7th.On Sunday, it was the Yankees that got the early lead. The Mets slowly chipped away and tied in what was supposed to be a hyped up pitcher's duel between aces CC Sabathia and RA Dickey. Both guys got roughed up. It was the Yankees bullpen that outplayed the Mets. It was Logan that ended up with the win off Cano's HR in the 8th.That ended RA Dickey's amazing run with 42 shutout innings of which his last 2 games were 1-hitters.

JWP
John Wayne Parr had his retirement match against Jordan Tai over the weekend and the champ went out in style. The Muay Thai match was fought in an octagon with MMA gloves... pretty much ancient style without the glass (ala Van Damme's Kickboxer)! JWP dominated the match and won via KO in an exciting 4th round exchange. Parr's hand was actually broken in the 1st, but he fought with the other hand and still won. What a great way to close an amazing career. I look forward to JWP as he makes the transition to the movie industry and he continues to be a great teacher as well.

Tennis
I thought Wimbledon was going to start over the weekend, but the first day was actually today. I haven't done a good job following tennis this year, but I'm going to try with this tournament. There was nothing that exciting in today's early rounds. Federer, Djokovic, Maria, Stosur and Clijsters all router their 1st rounders.