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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When's the vote on the 25 cent trolly to Ebbets Field?

I'm not really sure what to make of this, but the New York City Council voted 40-6 yesterday to ban the use of metal bats in high school baseball games.

This is widely considered a giant victory in the battle to return baseball to exactly the way it was when today's government officials were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s.

Next on the agenda, banning of astroturf, $7 beers, getting the Giants and Dodgers to move back to New York, making baseball cards legal currency in New York, and putting more "gritty" Italians with "hustle and moxie" and who played "for love of the game" back in baseball.

Cause it's not like, you know, a city the size of New York has any issues that could possibly be more important than what kind of bat little Jimmy uses.

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