Miscellaneous Tuesday Thoughts

Overall the sports scene is in a 'tween mode right now. NBA finals are complete (did I mention the Celtics won?) and MLB is heading into the All-Star timeframe soon.

Some miscellaneous things to discuss:

Interleague play in MLB, good or bad, done right or done wrong? The obvious example of how it is bad is the injury to Wang for the Yankees. Their top pitcher is out for 2-4 months because he injured himself running the bases during an interleague game. Now NL pitchers run (potentially) every game they pitch so what is the big deal? The big deal is that for the number of games the AL teams have to play in NL parks, it isn't worth it to practice hitting, baserunning for the pitchers. If you accept that it is here to stay (read:revenue) then what can be done to improve it?

Do you have it play on AL rules only in all parks? That could give the AL an advantage as their rosters are built to have a DH included and the NL teams would be inserting a less than equal offensive player as their DH. There is no other solution unfortunately to make it "fair" and reduce injury possibilities for players playing by rules not expected of them for 130+ games in the schedule.

The only other solution would be to make both leagues play by the same rules all season, either DH or no DH. This would be so radical that "slow moving" Bud would never go there on his watch.

So in the end, there will be no changes, things will remain the same and discussions from those in charge will be about how nothing is broken. Whatever.

This past weekend there was coverage of the US Olympic Trials on tv. Have to admit we watched some at home. My youngest daughters were very interested in the gymnastic trials. Some diving interested them too but the interest really was in gymnastics. This is the first time we discussed the Olympics at home and I am sure we will watch quite a bit come August. Having an international family (3 of 5 kids adopted from SE Asia) we have the possibility of rooting for other countries other than the US.

Here is a quick movie file to watch, funny :