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Wrapping up the week with a few links from around the web worth giving a look…

• The Top 10 Childhood Sports Hatreds – Epic Carnival (ahh, the joys of hatred)
• Apparently a few athletes actually do graduate – GoVolsXtra
• Following-up on my article about StripeHype, an article on defending the Blogosphere – Cat Crave
• A Tip of the Cap to Bruce Pearl – Blue Work Horse
• GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY! 688 NCAA Rules Violations in just 5 years? What the hell is Alabama State Doing? — YMSWWC
  
• Charles Barkley Tells it Like it is:

– Awful Announcing

• Don’t you EVAH’ Question Billy Clyde, at least not in Lexington – SportsByBrooks
• Senator Blutarsky weighs in on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates – Get the Picture
• Bob Huggins Attacked by an Ice Cream Cone (or so Jack Daniels Would Have us Think) – Rush the Court
• Don’t Use Human Skulls for Bong-making – Brahsome
• Urban is so Proud: Florida Gator Arrested for using the Credit Card of a Dead Girl – With Leather

– Go Figure …

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Once again the sports world is abuzz about the start of spring training, and yet another Major League Baseball season. Baseball has a long list of issues on its plate as the season gets rolling along. All of the off-season chatter has centered on the problems arising from the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Bud Selig, Brian McNamee, Bob Uecker, Pedro Cerrano, Ebby “Nuke” LaLoosh, Rick Vaughn, and Crash Davis. Those last five names actually have nothing to do with the controversy swirling in baseball, but I threw them in just for the hell of it — after all, the more the merrier.

Anyway, I am sure that the powers that be in baseball simply cannot wait to get the 2008 season going so they can put all of this ugliness behind them — “move on” as it were. There are only 2 problems with this line of thinking:

1. The start of the 2008 season is not going to put the steroid issues that have been plastered all over the media for the last 6 months “behind” baseball, not even a little, and
2. Even if it did cause millions of otherwise reasonably informed Americans to suddenly forget about a story that has been covered with more nauseating detail and intensity than the war in Iraq, that forgetfulness would only be the result of the fact that increasingly fewer people in this country give two shits about Major League Baseball anymore anyway.

I think baseball has a very tough road ahead of it…

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With the exception of dropping a few links, I have remained quiet on the revelations and controversies surrounding baseball and the, now infamous, Mitchell Report. There are reasons for this. I am not a “true” baseball fan in the traditional sense — I don’t follow stats, rarely keep track of the rosters of the various teams, and I quickly grow weary of watching baseball on television. I have always been a much bigger fan of college and minor league baseball. While I do, generally, pull for the Braves, Indians, and Red Sox, I am hardly a follower of the game. Thus, I am less than informed as to the comings and goings in Major League Baseball. In addition to this, there is the Report itself — it is over 400 pages long, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to take the time to read the whole thing (although I did listen to part of it being read on XM Radio — sounded like stereo instructions).

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