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Mets aiming to snap NL East drought

April 17, 2006 / John Blake

The New York Mets are hoping this year will end differently than the past fourteen. After all, the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East title each year since 1992. With the new additions of Carlos Delgado, Paul Lo Duca, and Billy Wagner, the Mets are off to their best start in franchise history. They know it’s the Braves’ division until someone proves they can knock them off but are more than ready for the challenge.

“The important thing isn’t what we think about them, it’s what they think about us. It used to be if we beat them, they’d think, ‘No problem, we’ll get ’em tomorrow.’ Now we want them to think, ‘oh [expletive], we’re in trouble,'” said Cliff Floyd.

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Couch Potato Alert

April 17, 2006 / John Paulsen

The NBA season winds down this week, and while the playoff teams are set, the matchups are not. For example, you can expect the Bucks to put forth a maximum effort against the Pistons as a win tonight makes it less likely that they’ll be facing Detroit in the first round. Unfortunately, TNT doesn’t have any games until the playoffs and ESPN’s doubleheader on Wednesday features two pretty meaningless games. (All times ET.)

NBA
Mon, 8pm: Detroit @ Milwaukee – local
Tues, 7pm: Milwaukee @ Washington – local
Tues, 8pm: LA Clippers @ Memphis – local
Wed, 7:30pm: Washington @ Detroit – local
Wed, 8pm: LA Clippers @ Dallas – local

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Mon, 7:10pm: Atlanta @ NY Mets – ESPN (HD)
Wed, 12:37pm: NY Yankees @ Toronto – ESPN (HD)
Wed, 7:05pm: Cleveland @ Baltimore – ESPN2 (HD)
Thurs, 7:05pm: Tampa Bay @ Boston – ESPN2 (HD)

NHL
Mon, 7pm: Dallas @ Detroit – OLN
Tues, 7pm: Buffalo @ Carolina – local
Tues, 7pm: Ottawa @ NY Rangers – local
Tues, 8pm: Detroit @ Nashville – local

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Bonds needs to sit already

April 14, 2006 / Bob

Barry Bonds should be suspended from baseball until every allegation and charge against him is cleared up. I pick up the paper everyday and see a new story about Bonds and his “possible” wrongdoings. There is no way Barry can be innocent of every charge that is out there. I find it hard to believe that all of the accusers have a personal agenda against Bonds and they are just “picking on him”. I truly believe baseball is making a bad name for itself by allowing Bonds to chase and set new records with the all of the “possible” charges.
This is a great opportunity for the owners and league to take a stand against a very strong and selfish union in baseball and force Bonds to sit. As a fan, I really don’t want young kids to believe that the way to make the paper is by doing the “wrong thing”.

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