I turned on ESPN at 7:45 pm just to make sure I didn't miss it. John Tavareses first taste bite of the Big Apple. The ESPN Game of the Week between the Mets and the Yankees.

I waited, and I waited, and I waited, and I looked at the clock and it was 8:07 pm and there was a pitcher on the mound and the game had started.

WTF??? Did I fall asleep for a minute? Did I have my nose too deep into Twitter to notice? Where was John Tavares????

On Twitter, @Isleschick had posted the photos of JT in a Mets Tavares 1 Jersey and Isles cap from Yahoo Sports. They were great shots. Again, my jaw dropped and all I could think was WTF????

I received an email from Islanders arena hostess Dina, who was at Citi-Field only by chance and sporting her new JT T-shirt.

"Ok, so I don't know what showed up on TV. But not as many boo's as I expected. More claps. (And some confused faces. Lol!)"

ESPN had the chance to show a little respect to the NHL coming off one of their biggest event weekends. They chose to not air it live. (I don't know if they aired a clip during the broadcast. Baseball games are a tranquilizer for me. I fell asleep.)

Debate again why the NHL is on Versus. Once again, opportunity squandered.

And another thing!!!! This morning I woke up to a few articles about the potential error in chosing De Haan over a more physical player. To all those pundits who are blasting the move I say this:

"The NHL draft is a crap shoot. They made the choice for their own reasons. Only TIME will tell if they were right. "


PS: Congratulations Mariano Rivera on your RBI and 500th save. You ARE and always WILL BE the greatest closer in the game of Baseball.

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