Now, I know the Orioles play in Baltimore, but Mike Lupica's moral outrage need not be limited to New York players.

So you just KNOW the prominent anti-ARod crusader is going to go after the Orioles in the wake of the Chris Davis suspension.

Duck for cover, y'all, this is going to be nasty:

"They should give Buck Showalter two Manager of the Year awards for his work this season with the Orioles.

He has lost his catcher, he has lost his third baseman, now he loses his first baseman, Chris Davis, on an amphetamine rap.

And the Orioles, who started out the season 0-4, have been 33 games over .500 since then, and will go into the playoffs with the second-best record in baseball.

Oh, and by the way, Buck had to give a kid who’d never been a closer, Zach Britton, a battlefield commission after the season started."

Dang.

That's cold.

Straight up moral crusader stuff right there.


"Mets fans have a right to wonder how this season would have gone if Matt Harvey had pitched this season and David Wright had hit."

Without a doubt.

For, like, the 5th or 6th season in a row, the Mets are totally the best sub-.500 team ever.

If their bad players played better and if their good players remained healthy, they'd be a lot better. Probably 120 wins or so?

That's assuming Eric Young scores 120 runs and that injured closer guy gets 45 saves.

As for the Yankees, I wonder the same thing. If nobody got hurt and everybody hit, I wonder how the season would have gone.

"Better."

The season would have gone better.