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High school baseball
Chase won all three of their contest while Spring Break was in session and has won four in a row now.
R-S Central won both games they played during the break and East Rutherford went 2-2 from Myrtle Beach. Thomas Jefferson took the week off. All games were non-conference as they get back into conference action this week. Softball and soccer will do the same.
Opening day is this week for Major League Baseball
Braves: Unfortunately, there is nothing good to say about the Atlanta Braves so far. They have discarded everybody in the organization and are starting from scratch. Granted late last season, the Braves fell apart, the talent wasn’t bad.
They have completely started the rebuilding phase after just shipping Craig Kimbrel and Melvin (B.J.) Upton the day before opening day.
Outfielders will be okay, but not as good as a year ago. The infield stays pretty much intact, but pitching and hitting is where the Braves could suffer the most. It looks like Freedie Freeman maybe on his own this season at the plate and they have two guys on the roster who could now close from the mound. However, both Jason Grilli and Jim Johnson struggled with different teams last year doing so.
Outlook: Atlanta won 79 games last year, but they might be lucky to win 65 this season.
As for the playoffs in the National League, I am going to go San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego. In the American League, give me Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, Detroit and the Los Angeles Angels. World Series: San Francisco and Boston. Boston in six games and just on a hunch. Please no hate mail…this is only guess work over here.
NASCAR
Supposedly, Ryan Newman’s team was cheating after tire-gate has found that his team was drilling small holes into their tires to create a huge advantage on the competition side of things. Bleeding air as the run goes helps the race car to grip the track. As they say, your not trying hard enough unless your cheating. NASCAR has docked Newman 75 points, but suspended and fined three other crew members who were in on the scandal.
Newman, who has an engineering background might have known about the whole thing, but NASCAR can’t prove it since he is just the driver. Newman and Richard Childress Racing can go through the appeals process, but normally, they don’t overturn penalties. Newman lost 20 spots in points after NASCAR’s sanctions were handed down.
Some are saying that the penalties were too harsh or not enough. I will say this, Newman can’t argue the points issue. If guilty, Newman is lucky to be racing still. There is no telling how many spots Newman gained during the last year and a half or longer, so 75 points should be fair.
