Charmed?

From Ben Shpigel’s Mets blog in the Times:

She’s the Boss

The actress Alyssa Milano (you may know her as Samantha Miceli from Who’s The Boss or as one of those witches from Charmed) is at Shea Stadium today to promote her MLB-related women’s clothing line, but that’s not how I know she’s a huge baseball fan. Nor is it her season tickets at Dodger Stadium (she attended three of the Mets’ four games there last weekend) or her blog, where she ruminates on baseball, or her past relationships with Carl Pavano, Brad Penny and Barry Zito. This is how I know: She is spending her Saturday watching the Mets play the Washington Nationals in a day-night doubleheader, and yes, she said, she plans on staying the whole time.

“I prefer the National League,” Milano said. “When the Dodgers aren’t playing, I root for the Mets.”

This left me with a bit of the Yikes! feeling, but we did win the first game. And Alyssa’s ex Brad Penny won his 13th game of the season against just one loss this past week. So maybe she’s reversed the curse.

Karl wrote:

Now we know why Glavine’s stalled out. Great win for your guys yesterday. What’s with the Jacket’s no-jacket look? You also lucked out in the Cards-Bravos game.

The Jacket-No Jacket win-loss record is mixed. We won last Sunday’s game against the Dodgers in the No Jacket orientation, but lost against the Pirates on Thursday when he again went jacketless. I’m not sure if Peterson was sans or avec during today’s day game; MLB.TV was blacked out so I just heard the game on WFAN and haven’t yet seen video of the game. The second half of the doubleheader starts soon. A night game, Peterson will likely be fully clothed. More than fret over the pitching coach’s attire, we need to hope that Mike Pelfrey continues his steady ascent to major league status and pitches a good game.

And Barb added:

You have to give Alyssa some credit, though, as she is a real fan of the game (she has season tickets for LA). Barry and Carl are cute. Brad is another matter.

Well, he’s not ugly. And he probably has other — ahem — attributes.

America Held Hostage: The Michael Vick Dogfighting Saga

It goes on and on and on ….

Kind of like the Energizer Bunny.

(According to the Washington Post, Vick has been under investigation since 25 April.)

I can’t be the only one who has started to feel this way about the Vick story. Perhaps it’s because I listen to a fair amount of sports radio, where they are beating this story to death. But it is also getting a lot of play on tv. ABC might need to bring Ted Koppel back to anchor the story on Nightline. Or perhaps they’ll pass the baton to Nancy Grace on CNN. I’ve heard that she’s gone all nutzoid over the Vick case.