Some random thoughts while waiting to see where the lake effect snow will fly.
-High School basketball is revving up in Indiana. It's a great place to watch games, and see some fundamental basketball. I've watched some great games on Friday nights in places like Attica, Delphi, Hamilton, Jamestown, Benton, and Wolcott. In this type of community, it is more than a game. It is THE community gathering. People touch base with each other, share family news, and support their boys and girls, win or lose. Spending time their over the years sees babies grow to toddlers, then preteens, and eventually on the floor, wearing a uniform they dreamed of from the time they were old enough to realize it. It's special: go to a game somewhere, even if your kids are grown or you haven't had any yet. It will make connections!
-Another baseball trade yesterday saw David Freese and Fernando Salas moved to Anaheim, where the Angels gave us Peter Bourjos and prospect Randal Grichuk. Freese, a World Series MVP, and Salas, a reliever, will help the Angels right away. Word is Freese needed out of his hometown. Bourjos is a quiet star, and, when healthy, gives the Cardinals a traditional lead-off hitter and a solid defensive center fielder. Grichuk is a wild card, starting to blossom as a power hitter with 22 home runs last year in AA.
Business wise, Freese's salary was a minor change for the Cardinals, his $3.1 million going to a team that might be able to afford him. The Cardinals may have a huge salary dump with Jake Westbrook and his almost 9 million dollars available on the free agent market. St. Louis has done a good job of developing talent, and it still strikes me like a salary move. On the field, it still doesn't make a lot of sense now.
-I can't help but laugh at A-Rod. I give him credit for being coachable: walking out of the meeting puts the burden of proof in public opinion on baseball, not A-Rod. If baseball has the evidence, now, not later is the time to come out with it. Otherwise, A-Rod, who says he used legal diet supplements, is still on the other side of the public opinion coin. Yelling "Witch hunt" and acting like a little child, walking out when things aren't going your way, aren't going to help you. Be a man, not just a male, for a change. Your image is gone.
So...am I off base?
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