Mike Sweeney Can Hit?

Three consecutive games with one home run. A four game hit streak. Ten hits in the last ten games. A stolen base (and third no less!).

Yes, its finally happened. Mike Sweeney has not only been a useful baseball player over the last couple weeks, but has been GOOD. At baseball! It's unbelievable I know, but it has happened. Somehow, the man affectionately known as 6-4-3 (thanks to USS Mariner for the nickname) actually has skills beyond hugging everyone and speaking Spanish.

By no means will this continue to happen. Not to be a downer, but Mike Sweeney is 37 years old and hasn't been healthy enough to play in the field regularly since 2002. Hell, the guy hasn't played a full season since 2005, and hasn't really been useful since then either.

Even so, revel in his current success. Sure it makes absolutely no sense, but I don't really care. In fact, I've thought about it enough to come up with a few possible reasons why Mike Sweeney has suddenly hit like a baseball player:

• Stole all Jose Lopez's usefullness from last year.


• Umpires love him to much to tell him he struck out ten pitches ago.


• Alonzo Powell has given Sweeney a power ring, a la Captain Planet and the Planeteers.


• Actually Milton Bradley in whiteface.


• Balls feel so bad for him that they insist on leaving the yard to make him feel better.

Whatever the reason, Mike Sweeney has been one of if not the best Mariner the last few days, and i applaud him for it. God forbid, I may not even get to call him 6-4-3 much longer (the name would of course be inherited by Casey Kotchman, who has grounded out 70% of the time this month and has 2 hits). Now if only we can convince Figgins that a single is basically the same as a walk...