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He is young, only 22 years old and may develop into a nice player. I'd rather have Melky or Ellsbury. I think this is a great deal for the Mets. I don't think the Mets will miss these prospects and they are getting perhaps the best pitcher in the game. A starting staff of Santana, Pedro Martinez, John Maine, Oliver Perez, and Orlando Hernandez, is the best in the National League. I'm not sure what the Twins are getting in return, especially when you consider what they walked away from. .
Weighing up Bradman's MCG legacy
In the MCG Long Room one morning this week, he augustly dared to take issue with Don Bradman. Moreover, the topic was one upon which Bradman was generally thought to be infallible: himself. The effect, however, was not to diminish the legend, but further it. McDonald recalled how Sir Donald once, upon seeing the youthful Sachin Tendulkar bat on television, summoned his wife, Lady Jessie, and said that the gifted Indian, more than any other batsman, most closely resembled himself in his prime. "Let me tell you, he was wrong," McDonald said affectionately. "Tendulkar is a textbook batsman, the sort coaches salivate about. But Bradman didn't bat anything like him." McDonald's point was not that Bradman was unorthodox, but that he batted on some higher plane, far beyond orthodoxy.
Court delay keeps Port Phillip Bay dredging in limbo
A COURTROOM saga over the future of Port Phillip Bay's controversial $1 billion dredging project will drag on for at least another 10 days after the case was adjourned today. The matter will return to court on March 3 after environment group Blue Wedges requested time to change the legal arguments of its case. The group is challenging the legality of federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's approval of a huge dredging project to deepen Melbourne's shipping channels. Dredging began two weeks ago under strict conditions imposed by the court, pending the hearing. But the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) will seek to have those conditions relaxed in a separate hearing this afternoon, on the grounds that Blue Wedges has caused the delay by seeking to amend their original application to the court.
Acciona dedicates solar power generator in southern Nevada desert
BOULDER CITY, Nev. – The founder of Apple Computers, the first woman in space and a Hollywood actor and activist joined officials from a Spanish company dedicating a solar power generating station Friday in the Nevada desert. Acciona executives say the 400-acre Nevada Solar One project provides enough electricity to serve 14,000 homes, and demonstrates the viability of commercial-scale concentrating solar power production in the United States. "We launched this project in Nevada because of the existing solar resources and the capacity to provide a significant portion of the electricity consumed by a city like Las Vegas in the hours of peak demand," Acciona chairman and chief executive Jose Manuel Entrecanales said in a statement. Apple founder Steve Wozniak, former NASA astronaut Sally Ride and actor Ed Begley Jr.
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