That's Just The Way It Is...Some Things Will Never Change

What a crazy stretch in the sports world this has been!

THE NEW YORK METS beat up the San Diego Padres to open the baseball season. Citi Field was nowhere near filled to capacity, and yet the Metropolitans had the gall to sell standing room for $45 plus an $8 service fee!  I mean, they are kidding right?  For a team that would be tickled pink to finish at .500?

THE NEW YORK YANKEES also opened up Bud Light Selig's Major League Baseball with an awful performance against the hated Boston Deadsox.  Can someone explain to me why on a brutal early April afternoon did both NY teams have to play at home? At the same time? Five miles apart?  Why doesn't baseball smarten up and open the season in warm weather sites or domes?  The Mets visit Minnesota, now an open air stadium, in April!

LOUISVILLE CARDINALS BASKETBALL PLAYER is in Atlanta for the Final Four.  By now, everyone has seen the most gruesome injury in sports since Joe Theismann had his leg broken by LT of the Giants.  What an awful sight that was on Easter afternoon.  Get well soon, Mr. Ware.  Given how big these players are and how long their limbs are, I often wonder why this doesn't happen more.  The stress and force on these huge bodies has to cause a breakdown somewhere, don't you think?

ROBINSON CANO FIRES SCOTT BORAS, and signs up with Jay-Z's firm CAA.  This has to be a good thing for the Yankees. Boras has a reputation for extracting the most money from teams and taking the longest time to do it.  This just might be a sign that Cano wants to sign now and maybe end his career with the Yankees.  I have my fingers crossed.

RUTGERS FIRES BASKETBALL COACH MIKE RICE in a move long overdue.  Physical and mental abuse is never appropriate anywhere, let alone with other people's offspring.  References to sexual preference, race, masculinity or whatever are never in season in life in general or sports particularly.  When I played pee-wee football we had a very successful coach that raised his voice often and I got hit in the head one or two times as he slammed a football into my helmet.  But that was a long time ago, and there was never any kind of verbal harassment, but then again, there was no such thing as "homosexual" when I was 13, right?  Anyway, one question is begging for an answer: since this tape is of an incident in November, what took Rutgers so long to respond, and why was the initial punishment rendered, a three-game suspension, so light?  As tax payers and thereby supporters of our State University, somebody owes you and me an explanation, dont you think?