Is it really April?

Hi there. I took one look at the calendar and saw it was April 3rd. Boy the first 3 months of the year went by like a blur! Well maybe it was because I was congested and my back hurt most of the time. So Butler and UConn are playing for the national championship in Houston. Please all you media hounds and they're have been a ton of you working the room speculating when Butler coach Brad Stevens will get a boat load of Benjamins, Lincolns and George Washingtons to leave the Bulldogs for some uber conference team that needs to be re-built. I know you probably will some day, but for now if you and your family are truly happy Brad Stevens stay at Hinkle Fieldhouse and enjoy the ride. Same thing goes for you Shaka Smart over at VCU. Baseball season has arrived and before you fans start jumping off the South Glens Falls bridge because your team has no hope, wait at least til Memorial Day. A couple of last thoughts from spring training. First we have the Orioles' Jake Fox who broke some unwritten rule about swinging at 3-0 pitch during a blowout with runners on. Not only did he get harassed by Jim Leland but by his own manager Buck Showalter. I've never understood why on a 3-0 count any batter would put the bat on the shoulder and take a pitch. The pitcher has to throw a strike so swing at it. Jake if you want to make nice with Jim Leland, just send him a carton of smokes and I think everything will be fine. Then there's Brian Cashman, Yankees GM who scolded the Mets for the way they used pitcher Pedro Feliciano. Feliciano has apparently a little shoulder stiffness. This coming from a guy who signed Carl Pavano and Kei Igawa. Brian find that episode of the Brady Bunch and learn what "caveat emptor" means! Finally we have Rays third baseman Evan Longoria who along with teammates David Price and Reid Brignac had the home they were renting during spring training broken into. A variety of watches, electronics items and a big screen tv were stolen. Oh and one other thing. Longoria had his AK-47 assault rifle stolen! Excuse me! As the face of the franchise, how do you explain to the kids who look up to you that you own one and it wasn't locked up in a secure gun cabinet! The best line came from the local sheriff's office. "Perfectly legal." I wanted to throw up when I read that line. Getting away from baseball. After watching the progress of the Phantoms lately, as much as I want the season to come to an end, there's a part of me that wishes that there was a couple of more home games. Love watching Matt Read, both Mike and J.P.Testwuide, Harry Zolniercyk, and Erik Gustafsson play. Friday night I thought the ref blew a great opportunity to take control of the game early when he gave unsportsmanlike conduct penalties to Matt Clackson and Leblond from Albany in the first period. After what had happened during the previous game in Albany, I would have tossed both of them out to send a message to both benches not to let the game degrade into some scene out of, "Slap Shot." What idiot schedule maker at the AHL came up with the brilliant idea to have the Rochester Americans come into Glens Falls for their only visit on a Monday night? I think Stan Lee is losing his mind. The man behind Marvel Comics is planning a new animated series around Arnold Schwarzenegger called, "The Governator." That is just as brilliant an idea as the NHL Guardian Project. You're saying what the heck is the NHL Guardian Project? Find out and you'll be shaking your head wondering, "Huh?" I love this story from Florida where a 17 year girl forced her Mom to buy her a car at gunpoint! The child even pistol whipped Mommy! Mom did not want to press charges because her precious little girl had been accepted to several Ivy League schools. The gun was a stolen one, too. I know that colleges besides SAT scores and grades want to know what activities, clubs and sports that perspective students are involved in before accepting them. Taking a stolen firearm and forcing mom at gunpoint to buy car for you does not look good on the transcript. Finally this weeks sign of the apocalypse comes Rutgers University where Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison will be giving the commencement address and everybody's favorite vertically challenged cast member from "Jersey Shore" Nicole Polizzi spoke to students. I'm not making this up but Snooki got 2 grand more to speak than the Nobel Prize winner. Snooki got 32 thousand, while Toni Morrison got only 30 thousand. Just when I thought the dumbing down of America had hit rock bottom, the canyon has been dug a little bit deeper...Leccese out!