David Wright hit over .300 for the New York Mets last season but only had 10 home runs and 72 RBI. The poor power numbers made Wright focus on working out in the offseason, and who better to turn to than one of the “GTL” boys from the Jersey Shore. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Vitaminwater are on a mission to return Wright to his old ways. My money says DW will hit .400 with 60 jacks after all the slump busting and grenade catching that happens when you’re with The Situation.

David Wright of the New York Mets saved the United States’ baseball ass with a bases-load walk-off single against Puerto Rico Tuesday night in the World Baseball Classic. Too bad Wright and the Mets don’t come through in the clutch like this in September or October.

We hear that our professional athletes don’t give a damn about anything except their next paycheck. But if you look at the baseball team in the video or Team USA celebrating their gold medal, you can tell that these guys want to win no matter what.

The New York Mets are off to a disappointing 6-6 start, and Pedro’s been shelved but it’s not all bad news for the Metropolitans. They have great fans and the only big league third baseman in The Big Apple that half the country doesn’t think is a douchebag.

David Wright was on Letterman Monday night to discuss his 100th home run, Mets vs. Phillies, the team’s slow start, and the reason for lengthy baseball games. From the 2:15 mark:

DL: When I was a kid, we’d go to a ball game it’d be two hours fifteen minutes, two hours and twenty minutes, you’d be home and everything would be fine. And now you guys are playing four hour games regularly. Does that take a toll on you? Do you mind playing a long game like that?

DW: You know, Guys gotta do different things. We got guys that pimp their home runs, we got guys that fist pump after strikeouts. The games a little longer, a little more interesting. It’s good, it’s good. You have a little bit more time in between innings, commercial breaks here and there. A little longer games, a little later bedtimes.

After a brief discussion in between, David Letterman goes back to pimping home runs.

DL: You’re saying that baseball games are longer now because guys are pimping their home runs?

DW: It’s more of a show than it used to be. It used to be just substance, now it’s style.

DL: What does that mean ‘they’re pimping their home runs’?

DW: A few different things. You got guys that’ll flip the bat and guys that do this and that. You know, it’s part of the game now.

DL: Did you do any pimping yesterday?

DW: Usually when I hit ‘em, I don’t know that they’re going out so I can’t pimp it until I know they go out.

DL: So you gotta wait til later. Til you’ve seen the replay.

I hope A-Rod was watching this interview. He could see how a little personality can go a long way, and he would realize that he doesn’t have to embarrass himself to be on Letterman.

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The Detroit Tigers’ Dontrelle Willis prepares for life after baseball by interviewing Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies and David Wright of the New York Mets. The question that Willis wants answered to most is “Who’s the toughest pitcher you’ve faced?” and he’s begging for the answer to be him. Ryan Howard took the diplomatic way out by saying the D-Train is one of the best pitchers in the game but David Wright didn’t hold back.

Dontrelle: Who’s one of the toughest pitchers you’ve faced in the league man and why?

David: I would say you but I own you.

Classic. For the record Wright is 14-39 (.359) with 1 hr and 8 rbi against Willis. Dontrelle cracked back by saying it’s gonna be Tigers-Phillies in the World Series, but it was too late. Wright got him again.

Tags: Dontrelle Willis, Ryan Howard, David Wright, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, video, youtube, utube

JS: Alex Rodriguez opted out of his Yankees contract, he’s a third baseman, they say ‘maybe the Mets will go after him’.. You’re the Mets third baseman.. Do you call them up and go “heeellooooo”?

DW: You know, just seeing the way that Boston celebrated, seeing the winners of World Series, first and foremost I wanna win, so am I saying that I would change positions for a guy like Alex Rodriguez? If the front office called me and said ‘hey look, we wanna make this team better and you’re involved’, I would absolutely wanna sit down and listen, but for right now I am the third baseman of the New York Mets, and I’m going into the 2008 season prepared to be third baseman of the Mets.

JS: What if they call you and they say ‘hey what about Jon Stewart maybe playing third base?’?

DW: I’m all in.

JS: You’re all in for that?.?

DW: I’m all in.

JS: I say no A-Rod and I’ll tell you why. He seems like bad medicine. He seems like a very good player, but when he gets on the team, it’s like he weakens the team. He’s like the Dick Cheney of baseball… In that he… nobody seems to like what he’s doing.. And by the way you don’t have to comment on that.

DW: (Laughing) Does he watch the show?

JS: No. He definitely doesn’t… But no, it seems like he’s a bad chemistry guy, and chemistry’s important, is it not?

DW: 52 home runs are important too, last time I checked.

JS: That could be a lot of chemistry, ok, I see what you’re saying.

I never thought of Alex Rodriguez as the Dick Cheney of baseball. He’s not even the dick of baseball as long as Barry’s still playing… If I compared A-Rod to a politician, I would go with Al Gore. They’re both rich, they put up statistics that you can’t ignore, and neither has reached their ultimate goal. I could keep going with the similarities, but I wanted to bring up the only difference I found. Alex likes the she-male, muscular type of stripper, Al Gore does not. Or does he?..

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Tags: David Wright, Jon Stewart, Alex Rodriguez, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, The Daily Show, New York Mets, Baseball, MLB, Sports

Steve Spurrier wants to help the Confederate Flag get off the pole. Courtesy of Larry Brown Sports

Michael Jordan is one of the most competitive people on the planet. Did you really think he would let Neil Diamond beat him at anything? Courtesy of the Washington Post

The (inconvenient) truth is, Mother Nature hates sports. Courtesy of the Ap by way of Post-Gazette.com

David Wright’s 23 game hit streak postponed due to rain. Courtesy of Metro Canada

Leigh Steinberg arrested for DUI. Rumor has it Roger Goodell will take away his Blackberry for a year. Courtesy of The OC Register

Speaking of losing Blackberry privileges, Charles Taplin is gonna lose his for contacting LSU football players. Courtesy of the AP by way of The Town Talk

Tim Duncan get’s ejected for laughing. I was just as shocked by the ejection as I was at the fact that Tim Duncan can laugh. I didn’t think his model was programmed with emotions. Courtesy of Fan IQ

Purdue..The Cincinnati Bengals of college football. Courtesy of Covers.com

If Eagles fans give Donovan McNabb a hard time, what would they have done with Akili Smith or Ricky Williams? Eagles offseason talk here. Courtesy of The Burlington County Times by way of PhillyBurbs.com

De La Hoya forces Mayweather to fight with bad gloves? Courtesy of The Grand Rapids Press by way of MLive.com

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