Florida is dealing Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante to the Tigers for highly regarded prospect Jacob Turner.
The Marlins are a mess. Always have been.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Joe Paterno
Today the big news in sports is the NCAA handing down its sanctions to Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. The four year bowl ban and reduction in scholarships are pretty severe but necessary and it should be at least a decade before the Nittany Lions are relevant again. I am glad that the NCAA is allowing current athletes to transfer without penalty to another school as they had nothing to do with the scandal. But the football program needed to suffer. If Ohio State was sanctioned with penalties for their head coach covering up some of their players trading merchandise and autographs for tattoos then the penalties here must be more severe.
That is not to say that the NCAA has long been one of the most corrupt institutions sports, an organization that has taken advantage of its student-athletes who devote their time and effort and are not compensated for what amounts to a billion dollar industry. The culture around some of the bigs name coaches in college sports can seem cultish and can be seen by those who still defend Paterno to this day. The statement by the NCAA President that they were protecting "the values of higher education" reeked of hollowness. In the end, this whole scandal has taken away what little interest or respect I had left for college sports in general, especially college football. Though I take it that Penn State found this punishment preferable over the alternate sanction, renaming the school to Perv State.
That is not to say that the NCAA has long been one of the most corrupt institutions sports, an organization that has taken advantage of its student-athletes who devote their time and effort and are not compensated for what amounts to a billion dollar industry. The culture around some of the bigs name coaches in college sports can seem cultish and can be seen by those who still defend Paterno to this day. The statement by the NCAA President that they were protecting "the values of higher education" reeked of hollowness. In the end, this whole scandal has taken away what little interest or respect I had left for college sports in general, especially college football. Though I take it that Penn State found this punishment preferable over the alternate sanction, renaming the school to Perv State.
Yankees
I am a huge Yankees fan, but I was sad to watch a four game sweep at the hands of Oakland. The Yankees who are lauded for their offense was unable to muster as many as 5 runs in any of these games. The A's are playing great ball this month going 14-2 and their starting pitching matched that of the Yankees. The Yankees seem to rely too much on the homer and have issues getting runs across. I am not turning on the team, or demanding a crazy trade for pitching or a bat at the deadline, I just feel that a veteran team should be able to get runs other then via the home run.
And Cinco was his name-o?
In news today, Chad "OchoCinco" has changed his name back to Johnson. If this was 2007 I might be interested or entertained by this news, but it is 2012 and no one cares anymore. I am more interested in the life and times of the horse he raced then on his last name. It might be time to just stop talking and try and catch more then 10 passes this season Chad...just saying.
Ryan Dempster?
Dempster to the Braves? Really? I get that he's having a good season, but he is also 35 and in the midst of a good season in a TERRIBLE division. Not that the NL East is the AL East, but its sure better than the NL Central. The Braves seem to be a smartly run organization, so maybe no top prospects went back to Chicago in the deal...but you have to wonder.
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