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!