Sports this 'n' that

Some local politicos in Los Angeles wanted Major League Baseball to reverse the results of the 2017-18 World Series and award the trophies to the Dodgers, after Houston & Boston's involvement in the sign stealing mess.



Roughly translated, they're feeling more than a little butt-hurt in LA. Unfortunately, commissioner Rob Manfred isn't biting. He's already said they can't vacate the titles or award them to the runners-up, which would, in fact, set a dangerous precedent. Good for Manfred. While the jury's still out on whether or not since-ousted BoSox skipper Alex Cora brought his wacky sign-stealing "tech" with him to Beantown, let's just move on, shall we?
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The Mets, who saw Carlos Beltran fall on his sword last week before spring training even got started, will introduce Luis Rojas as their new manager. Like Beltran, who went from Houston to the Yankee front office to Flushing, Rojas has no managerial experience. Translated, the Wilpons are being cheap again. Steve Cohen can't take majority control fast enough to suit the fan base.
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After 16 seasons and 2 Super Bowl titles, Eli Manning announced his retirement Wednesday. Next stop? Who knows? Brother Peyton has those silly commercials for Nationwide, in which he embarrasses country singer Brad Paisley on a regular basis, and Eli's proven he's not good as a commercial pitchman (see his failed X-Men knockoff ads for Toyota for an example).

My take: ESPN recently offered Tony Romo a sweetheart deal to leave CBS. Watch them rescind the offer, and hire Eli to replace Anthony McFarland on Monday Night Football. Just sayin'.

Manning hung on about three years too long, in this writer's opinion. As his skills began to diminish and regress, management should've convinced him it was time to move on, oh, maybe, 4-5 years before they finally did. Loyalty is one thing, but blind loyalty often results in disaster.
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They're a little butt-hurt in Yankee-land, too, if but because someone decided Derek Jeter didn't deserve to be a unanimous selection to the Hall of Fame.

While that one scribe remains anonymous, Jeter joins Larry Walker (Montreal, Colorado, St. Louis) and earlier selections Ted Simmons (St. Louis, Milwaukee) and the late union leader Marvin Miller in being enshrined in Cooperstown in July. Traffic headed in that direction will be more congested than the average winter flu virus for the 2nd year in a row.
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You don't see fights break out much in basketball anymore, even at the college level.

But one did the other night in the waning moments of the Kansas-Kansas State game. One player, Silvio deSouza, must've thought he was the reincarnation of 70's wrestling jobber Silvano Sousa when he went for a chair and started swinging that around. For that, deSouza was suspended for 12 games. Considering they play 2-3 games a week, deSouza will be back in mid-February. Just keep him away from chairs until he gets out of therapy.