Rutgers baseball team plays OzzieBall

With no other sports to watch while on the stationary this afternoon, I tuned into ESPN, which was showing the Big East baseball championship game between Rutgers and UConn.

With Rutgers at bat leading 4-1 with 0 outs and a man on first in the bottom of the fifth, Rutgers had a guy hitting .351 with 11 dingers--wielding an aluminum bat, mind you--trying to bunt. He never got the bunt down and was retired without the runner advancing. A walk and a double later, the run scored anyway.

Smallball's poisonous influence has clearly infiltrated the college game.

Other funny thing I wanted to mention: Right after this, UConn made a pitching change. While the new pitcher was making his warmup tosses, the PA person at the stadium played both the "Macarena" and "Mambo No. 5" in succession. Woo, 1997!

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Whaddayagonnadoboutit?

Due to perceived geographical obscurity, New Jersey state lawmakers passed a resolution last week recommending that Rutgers University somehow incorporate the letters "NJ" into their crimson "R" logo. I'm assuming this wouldn't lead to anyone asking "Where's RNJ?" instead of "Where's Rutgers?".

The claim is that most people don't know that Rutgers is in fact the state university of New Jersey. But, don't people who follow college sports know where Rutgers is already? Likewise, would people who don't follow college sports even notice the difference if the logo was changed?

It's a good thing that the state assembly is on top of this problem. Lord knows there aren't any other problems in New Jersey that might require some sort of action.

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