April 10, 2012

Anyone remember Vladamir Guerrero? Well, I still do and today's news out of the Dominican Republic was kinda funny to say the least.  It sounds like Vlad the Impaler had a little too much fun and ended up getting into a fight with police at a disco club, classy.  No charges have been filed, but the story is an interesting fall from grace for the once great slugger.  "At no time did I attack anyone, nor was I fleeing," said Vlad.  Right, right, and professional baseball players have never thought that laws don't apply to them.  Here's the ESPN link http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7795766/vladimir-guerrero-turns-self-disco-incident  Let's just file this along with the Manny Ramirez event, and call it good.  In other scandal news, Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino was fired today after failing to notify university authorities that a female faculty member was also with Petrino when he crashed his motorcycle.  An abrupt, and slightly surprising end to what was turning into a great program at Arkansas.  Oh, and of course I forgot Ozzie Guillen's Fidel Castro scandal, and he's since been suspended 5 days.  Ozzie has a history of being an idiot, so this is nothing new, but this is once again a case of reporters blowing up something that really doesn't matter.  It's not like Ozzie's going to call up his buddy Fidel, and have him take over America.  While a suspension is probably warranted, I'm pretty sure this is a non-story and shouldn't even have been deemed worthy of making ESPN, but that's the ESPN style on days when Peyton Manning isn't signing with a new team or Kentucky is winning the NCAA basketball tournament.  

Stat Line of the Day

Blue Jays 1-6 Hitters

Here's the stat line of the day, and it comes to you courtesy of the Toronto Blue Jays, who defeated the Red Sox 7-3.  Note the 0-4 from Jose Bautista.  Save Kelly Johnson, everyone around him had 2 hits.  If the Jays offense plays like this consistently, they will be in quite a few more games even when Joey Bats is having an off day.  Gone are the days of Bautista carrying the offense by himself; the Jays are turning a corner and we may be witnessing the birth of a new dynasty, if they can add some pitching to this young and talented lineup.