March 2008

After a long winter we’ve finally made it to the cusp of the 2008 baseball season. The Red Sox and A’s just finished kicking things off in Tokyo, while the rest of the teams finally play real games on Sunday and Monday. It’s time to play ball!

We thought we’d begin our baseball coverage by asking U-Melt’s Rob Salzer, who’s a huge Mets fan, to list his ten favorite Metropolitans of all-time.

Let’s see what he came up with:

1. Keith Hernandez
2. Dwight Gooden
3. Mike Piazza
4. Jose Reyes
5. David Wright
6. David Cone
7. Edgardo Alfonzo
8. Sid Fernandez
9. Ron Darling
10. Darryl Strawberry

Be sure to read on for Rob’s thoughts on the acquisition of Johan Santana…

The Allman Brothers Band announced today that they are postponing their annual run of 15 shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre set for May 5-24, with rescheduled dates TBA.

Axl Rose entered the studio to record Chinese Democracy in 1994, and fourteen years later we don’t even have a release date. It turns out the good people at Dr.

One of the few disappointments during my trip to Langerado was that I didn’t run into Mike Greenhaus and Benjy Eisen. It turns out were busy recording the latest batch