Controversy in Baseball and Golf

Jordan Spieth managed to win the second leg of the Grand Slam in golf by ONE shot over Dustin Johnson this past weekend at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Washington.

Johnson had a great chance to at least force a Monday playoff but he three putted on the last hole to lose. What an awful way to end a tournament but it was very fitting for this US Open given the terrible conditions of most of the greens!

There were plenty of lame comments, but no forthright explanation given for why the 13th green was the only green in perfect condition. All of the rest looked like mosaics. They were so bumpy, brown, and seemed to be made up of more than a few different kinds of grass. This really took away from the championship and on a course that's brought a lot of comments right from the start.

I didn't hear many people say that it would be a course that they would like to play. Actually the opposite for most! The next chance for Jordan Spieth to win another major is in only three weeks or so at the British Open at Saint Andrews. Talk about a change of pace going from a course nothing like what we think of for the sport and now an event being played in a place entrenched with golf history.

There will be tons of anticipation leading up to that for sure. In the meantime, let's hope Tiger Woods can get his act together, at least enough to even make the cut. His game was absolutely terrible last week.

In a blast from the past, according to an ESPN report, there is mounting evidence against Pete Rose to further ban him from ever being able to claim a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. According to this report, Rose bet on baseball even when he was still playing and managing the Cincinnati Reds in 1986.

Given this latest information, I will be shocked if Ruth is declared eligible for consideration. This would open Pandora's Box and force baseball to have to allow all other players who broke rules to be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. This would have to now include the steroid users and members of the Black Sox scandal from as far back as 1919.

I wouldn't mind having this debate with my professor from UD from the History of Sports course that I took back in 2003.