Rod's Thursday Take N Things

It is Thursday, the major league baseball season is only a few days old, and already my team, the Chicago Cub, have me so dog gone mad at em and it is all about pitching, pitching, pitching. On Monday, lowsy starting pitching from Carlos Zambrano, but then what else is new. He always is not good on opening day. I guess I don't get paid enough to make a decison like, start him in game 2 or 3 for goodness sakes. Last night it was relief pitching. After Ryan Dempster pitched a gem for 6 innings, his bullpen, more specifically, John Grabow gives up a two run homer to Chipper Jones no doubt and the Cubs lose. And of course, when they needed offense yesterday, it wasn't there. Guess they shot their wad on Monday scoring 5 runs so they could lose by 11!

I have been alerted to a website that has an article on it title, The 30 Hottest Women of the NCAA Tournament, and Pierre's Katie Lingle is on it. Katie of course is a freshman for South Dakota State who lost to Oklahoma in the first round. The website address is bleacherreport.com. And the correspondent's name is Alan Rubenstien. It actually is a very G rated article that features 32 players and coaches who played or coached in the NCAA tournament. The only figures used are basketball statistics. The title is the only thing that might get you wondering. Here for instance is all that it says beside Katie's picture. "Lingle played in 22 games as a freshman, averaging just over seven minutes per game. She provided some depth at center, scoring 44 points and pulled down 34 rebounds". That's it and then the picture that is posted is the same one on the SDSU website on the roster page of the SDSU women's basketball section. Donovan McNabb's niece is one of the players listed for instance. Like I say, I didn't go out web surfing and just happen to find this stuff. It was brought to my attention by a fellow co-worker here at the radio station. A female co worker at that. Katie by the way was listed 24th out of 32. 2 coaches and 30 players.