If Bush were the Commissioner of Baseball...

Yesterday on my drive into the cities, a local sports commentator questioned how screwed up baseball would be if George W Bush had been Commissioner of Baseball instead of the President.

Rumor has it, he was seriously considered for this role in 1996.

Scary.

Under W...

Pete Rose would be leading baseball's crackdown on gambling.

Jose Canseco, Rafael Palmeiro would lead baseball's crackdown on steroids.

"You're doing a good job Rafie".

Revenue sharing would be gone, as would the Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, and a slew of other smaller market teams.

Interleague play would never have come to light, as Bush is a traditional sort of guy...

Baseball's Karl Rove would be superagent Scott Boras.

Baseball would not have avoided a second strike in a decade and baseball would now be seen on OLN, after NHL Hockey.

Baseball would be destroyed after a decade of Bush leadership...

Just some random thoughts...

The Gophers

Friday night, beyond cooking some world class stir fry and sipping on some yummy cocktails, I was glued to the TV watching the news on Saddam. Therefore, I missed out on the Gophers football game.

Jason and I talked later in the night, after Matt called him to tell him how impressive the Gophers were, being ahead 35-7 at halftime. I was just as shocked at Jason.

I never checked out the score again...until I picked up the Strib on Saturday morning.

Wow...Fire Glen Mason now! The Gophers collapsed...lost 44-41 in overtime.

So Sid Hartman devoted about 4 column inches, of his 100, to talking about the Gopher debacle. He's the biggest Mason apologist around.

He also wrote about the Twins Stadium problems to acquire the land for the stadium.

Ah Sid...just stop!

At least the Huskies won (swept a tourney) again!

A hodgepodge blog

I am not happy with Allen Iverson going to Denver instead of the Wolves. I am even more upset that Joe Smith was trade fodder for Denver than helped bring the most exciting basketball player on the planet to Denver.

I do not like Joe Smith, he almost killed this franchise, along with the wizardry of Kevin McHale. Seeing Smith's name in the Iverson trade was just salt on old T-Wolve wounds.

Brad Radkte retired today. It is sad to see him go. He was one heck of a pitcher for the Twins for 12 years. My only Twins jersey I have ever owned is Radke, 22. He will be missed.

Thanks for the great run B-Rad!

Since I am talking about the Twins, I found out on Sunday that Dori's grandma, Dorothy, is an avid Twins fan.

The Enterprise Dispatch had a fun story about Dori's grandma!

By the way, I love banana bread!

A sports thread

Its been a while...

Vikes. Yikes! Despite a big win yesterday, it's going to be a tough end to the season. Brad Johnson is done.

Gohpher B-Ball. Ouch. Outrebounded by Arkansas Little Rock 43-16? Monson should have to endure this season, he created this mess!

Gopher football. We have heard the crap about being in 7 straight bowl games...and that by going to a bowl game, we get 6 more weeks of practice to develop talent, build the future. When will we see the fruits of this? Mason drives me nuts!

Twins. Please, for the love of humanity, sign someone who can help us! I hate bandaid solutions.

T-Wolves. Please trade for AI. When I get a new job, I may buy tickets to see this. Now, I am bored with this team...

UND. I must admit, the Ralph Englestad arena is a beautiful place. Does it have a lot of Indian heads, oh yeah. But you know, you really don't notice them unless you are looking for them. Its a top notch state of the art arena, in the middle of no where!

SCSU. The hockey team is on a roll! #2 in the WCHA, 8-0-3 in the past 11 games, last lost to UND in the Ralph (before the election). Go Huskies!