NY Post's 15th annual best and worst in NY pro sports by Jay Greenberg

• 2/27/11, "NY Post 15th annual best and worst of NY pro sports," Jay Greenberg

Each category had 3 winners. In the "Bright" category, all 3 were NY Mets:

• "Bright

1. R.A. Dickey, Mets

• 3.35 GPA as an English major at Tennessee. 2.84 ERA as a re-inventor of himself as a knuckleballer.

2. Chris Young, Mets

• Wrote Princeton thesis on “The Impact of Jackie Robinson and baseball integration on racial Stereotypes: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Stories about Race in the New York Times.” Far more impressive than quantitative projection of Mets rotation without Johan Santana.

3. Chris Capuano, Mets

• Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Duke. Between starts can figure out where the Madoff money went. Mets strategy is to put up goose-eggheads on opponents’ linescores."...

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• Other notables, "Classy," Yankee Phil Hughes was #3

"Mood didn’t drop with his performance level in second half of season. Good Guy Award winner doesn’t even wish the Rangers any ill against his Lightning."...

• "Respected," Mets David Wright was #2

"The Wilpons were hit high by Madoff and low by clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels. But for $55 million over six years, they got a guy who never cheats himself on an at-bat or blooper by the railing, even if 79 wins is not what he signed for."...

• "Annoying," Yankees Francisco Cervelli, #2

"Fist pumps on strikeouts in the first make him the last guy opponents greet at the batting cage."...

• "Underappreciated," Yankees David Robertson, #1

"Strikes out more than one per inning of reliable middle relief while everybody is caught looking at the travails of Joba Chamberlain."...

• "Loved," Yankees Mariano Rivera, #1, Derek Jeter #3

"Mans the ultimate what-did-you-do-for-me-today position. And fans and teammates still want him to go on forever."

• 2. "Amar’e Stoudemire, Knicks

Wait for a winner was eternal. Probably so will be the gratitude."

• 3. "Derek Jeter, Yankees

"Man of the people, despite the $7.7 million mansion (no guestroom for Hank Steinbrenner) and the big contract demands coming off .270. Unless countdown to 3,000 proves more protracted than the negotiations, it will be a 74-hit lovefest."...

• "Overachieving," Yankees Brett Gardner, #2

"Skinny walk-on at College of Charleston. Took a new position, perhaps the most famous in sports, and ran with it."

• "Friendly," Yankees CC Sabathia, #1

"No longer quite the fat man, but still jolly."...

• "Immature," Mets Francisco Rodriguez #1, Yankees Boone Logan #3

About Boone Logan: "More snide comments than Jeter’s house has rooms. Complains about distance from players’ lot to clubhouse. “Lots of parking at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Boone,” said Javier Vazquez."...

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They had a couple of other categories I didn't mention here like "hated," and "underachieving," in which names like the Wilpons and AJ Burnett were featured.

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