MLB Playoff Schedule 2010
As the 2010 MLB regular season comes to a conclusion tonight, MLB has release the schedule for the upcoming 2010 playoffs. In the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies will get the #1 seed and can deal with the #3 seeded Cincinnati Reds. Because the wildcard winner came out of the NL East, the Atlanta Braves will meet the #2 seeded San Francisco Giants. Within the American League, the top seeded Tampa Bay Rays will square. off in opposition to the #3 Texas Rangers, while the #2 seeded Minnesota Twins will encounter the New York Yankees.
The NLDS and ALDS will kickoff on Wednesday October 6th,2010. Wednesday will feature three Division Series games such as the Rangers @ Rays, Yankees @ Twins, and Red @ Phillies.
The total 2010 Playoff Schedule is as follows:
Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers
ALDS Game 1: Rays vs Rangers Wednesday, Oct. 6
ALDS Game 2: Rays vs Rangers Thursday, Oct. 7
ALDS Game 3: Rangers vs Rays Saturday, Oct. 9
ALDS Game 4: Rangers vs Rays Sunday, Oct. 10
ALDS Game 5: Rays vs Rangers Tuesday, Oct. 12
Minnesota Twins vs. New York Yankees
ALDS Game 1: Twins vs Yankees Wednesday, Oct. 6
ALDS Game 2: Twins vs Yankees Thursday, Oct. 7
ALDS Game 3: Yankees vs Twins Saturday, Oct. 9
ALDS Game 4: Yankees vs Twins Sunday, Oct. 10
ALDS Game 5: Twins vs Yankees Tuesday, Oct. 12
Philadelphia Phillies vs. Cincinnati Reds
NLDS Game 1: Phillies vs Reds Wednesday, Oct. 6
NLDS Game 2: Phillies vs Reds Friday, Oct. 8
NLDS Game 3: Reds vs Phillies Sunday, Oct. 10
NLDS Game 4: Reds vs Phillies Monday, Oct. 11
NLDS Game 5: Phillies vs Reds Wednesday, Oct. 13
San Francisco Giants vs.Atlanta Braves
NLDS Game 1: Giants vs Braves Thursday, Oct. 7
NLDS Game 2: Giants vs Braves Friday, Oct. 8
NLDS Game 3: Braves vs Giants Sunday, Oct. 10
NLDS Game 4: Braves vs Giants Monday, Oct. 11
NLDS Game 5: Giants vs Braves Wednesday, Oct. 13
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Mickey Mantle wife, Merlyn Mantle died of Alzheimer’s disease
NEW YORK – Merlyn Mantle, who for 43 years lived through the glory and the tumult of being married to the New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle, died of Alzheimer’s disease Monday in Plano, Texas. She was 77.
Merlyn Mantle, with an image of her husband in background. (File 2001)
A native of Cardin, Okla., she met Mantle in 1949, when he was a star player at Commerce (Okla.) High School and she was a cheerleader at archrival Picher High School.
“I developed an instant crush on Mickey Mantle, and by our second or third date, I was in love with him and always would be,’’ Mrs. Mantle wrote in a 1996 memoir, “A Hero All His Life.’’
The Mantles married in 1951, after his rookie year with the Yankees. For 18 seasons, Mantle symbolized athletic brilliance as perhaps the greatest switch-hitter in baseball history and led the Yankees to seven World Series championships. His injuries, and the pain he played through, only enhanced the heroic stature of the Hall of Famer.
It was only after Mantle’s career ended that the world learned of his drinking and womanizing. The drinking escalated in retirement as he struggled with what to do with himself.
“It took me a long time to admit Mick was an alcoholic,’’ Mrs. Mantle told The New York Times in 2001. She, too, became an alcoholic.
Cancer took its toll on the family. One of the Mantles’ four sons, Billy, had Hodgkin’s lymphoma for half his life and died of a heart attack in 1994 at age 36. Another son, Mickey Jr., died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2000, at 47.
Mickey Mantle died of cancer on Aug. 13, 1995, two months after receiving a liver transplant.
Merlyn and Mickey Mantle were separated for the last six years of their marriage. Mrs. Mantle lived in a condominium in Dallas that remained a shrine to her husband. Its walls were lined with photographs of him; a display case held three most valuable player trophies.
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SNY plays both sides on Omar Minaya, Adam Rubin Incident
Just as Omar Minaya turned on Adam Rubin, surreally making life even more miserable for the Mets, the network showed the Mets’ GM on one side of the screen and the flabbergasted reporter on the other.
This was just after Rubin had appeared on SNY as a correspondent discussing the pending firing of Tony Bernazard, and before he again appeared on the network, calling Minaya’s actions “devastating to me” and a “low blow” and adding, “They just made my job impossible to do for the short term.”
The latter comments came on “Daily News Live,” a staple of SNY’s schedule since 2006.
Did I mention SNY mostly is owned by the Mets?
See, these days trying to disentangle reporters’ conflicted professional allegiances is more difficult than ever, often leading only to a house of mirrors.
Example: Jon Heyman, who appeared in SNY’s studio after Minaya’s news conference, works for both Sports Illustrated and MLB.com, as does Tom Verducci, who recently wrote a best-selling book with Joe Torre.
As Verducci said when I asked him about the Torre story, in the end the only thing a modern journalist can do is fall back on his or her integrity, without which we’re all really out of business.
And that is the crux of the bitter he said-he said confrontation between Rubin and Minaya.
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If you believe Minaya that Rubin “lobbied” the organization for a job, then as a beat writer, he crossed the line. (After the news conference, Minaya apologized for using an improper forum to raise the issue, but not for the content.)
If you believe Rubin that he merely made general inquiries about how to go about pursuing a job in player personnel, he did nothing wrong.
Sports history is full of writers-turned-executives, from American League founder Ban Johnson to former baseball commissioner Ford Frick to former Giants GM Ernie Accorsi to dozens of others.
(The world – sports and otherwise – is even more full of former journalists who morphed into paid spokespeople for entities they once covered.)
Rubin is a 35-year-old in an increasingly tenuous profession, and expecting him not to keep his eyes, ears and options open is unfair and unrealistic.
It’s up to the Daily News to decide whether this makes it impossible for him to cover the Mets, but let’s face it: His reputation suffered less than that of Minaya, who now has retired the trophy as the most ill-at-ease news conference emcee in sports.
Not surprisingly, Minaya’s latest debacle was lambasted by hosts and callers on both WFAN – which carries the Mets – and 1050 ESPN, whose Michael Kay also works for the Yankees’ YES Network.
SNY, too, didn’t shy away from criticizing the general manager, if not ownership.
Kevin Burkhardt called Minaya’s performance “kinda nutty” and game announcers Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez took turns lamenting what had occurred.
“I find it kind of hard to believe that Adam Rubin was brought into this,” Hernandez said.
Said Darling: “It’s an awful day here in Met-land.”
Taken from NewsDay.Com
