Mosh Pit of News

A lot of sports news going on the past few days, not too much present day Met related, but interesting nonetheless.

First, Dco Gooden was released from Jail yesterday. Here's hoping that Doc can stay clean this time. So much talent wasted. I wish young kids would look at him and see what not to do.

Rutgers pulled it out last night against Louisville. It looked bad early for the Scarlet Knights, but then the defense held, forcing the Cardinals into 6 straight punts at one point, and came back to win on a last 13 seconds field goal. Nice win for them. They will not get a shot at the title, but it is nice to have a local college football team to root for.

Prior to the Rutgers game, His Pompousness and the Hyena were on location. All the hyena kept saying was that it was OK for Rutgers to lose, so long as it was not a blowout. During an interview with the AD for Rutgers, they spoke about how the school had to cut 6 sports. Hyena of course asked why tennis was cut, saying it could not cost that much to run the team. The AD responded that Title IX requires a near 50/50 split in mens and womens programs, so they had to cut a few teams. More mens teams were cut. Also, he noted that the school had 30 teams, with a $30 million budget, whereas a couple of other schools that had 30 teams, had budgets 2 to 3 times the size. Hyena of course missed all the Title IX stuff, and focused on the cost of tenis again. This guy really needs to learn a bit more.

Later, they had Chris Carlin, who used to work with them and now does Rutgers games on radio on. His Pompousness kept egging Carlin on, saying he should let the two of them have it for bashing Rutgers for all those years. Carlin to his credit did not, and told them the he knew if he did, and Ritgers lost, they would belittle him for it. Good for him standing his ground and letting those two fools know why.

Jose Reyes hit a game winning Home Run the other night, allowing the MLB team to sweep the 5 game series in Japan. Jose did not have a great series, but the GW HR brought out chants of Jose Jose Jose in the stadium. Wow, even in Japan they like this guy. No truth to the rumor that Braden Looper led the chant.

Gary Sheffield is still mouthing off, claiming that "middlemen" are keeping him from speaking to the Boss, while also saying that if The Boss was healthy, he would not be getting traded. He also bashed Bobby Abreu as not as good a ballplayer as Sheff. Well, that last part might be true. Sheff at least (usually) tries to catch balls at the wall, unlike Abreu.

The baseball world awaits the winner of the D-Mat sweepstakes. I wonder if the Boss was too sick to make sure that the Yanks bid? The winning bid get the luck of negotiating a contract with Scott Boras. Have fun guys.

J.D. Drew opted out of the last 3 years of his contract with the Didgers, foregoing $11 m per year. Let me get this straight, a guy who has never been healthy for a full season wants more than $11 m? Who is this guys agent? Oh, Scott Boras, that explains it. Stay away from this one Omar, mmkay?

The Isles won last night, 3-1, one day after goalie Rick DiPietro mixed it up with Isles tough guy Aaron Asham in practice. Newsday said Rick showed a little Billy Smith. Heck, at this point, I'd settle for a little Tommy Salo.

I leave you with this non sports related note from England:

A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday. He suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries. Several of his friends recorded the event on their cell phone cameras.

With friends like those, who needs enemas.