Jesse Jackson is at it again.  Not content to rid the world of shock jocks, the Rev. and his gang from Operation Push recently visited Atlanta Braves headquarters to decry the lack of African Americans on the Braves roster.  Now, you can call me anything you want, but this shows once and for all how out of touch Jesse really is.

This is not a new problem for Major League baseball. But it is not a problem that baseball has brought onto itself.  It is a widely known fact that African Americans are more inclined to play football and basketball than baseball.  Why? If you come from the inner city, your one or two years of college and your exposure on national television is usually enough to earn you a decent living immediately.  No minor leagues, no waiting three or four years for your turn, you show up and you play immediately in the big leagues in the NBA and NFL.

Second, there is an issue of facilities.  You can play basketball on a blacktop.  You can play football in a park or in the street (touch).  Baseball is a bit trickier and needs some kind of field.  And many inner city fields are rundown or not maintained due to city budget cuts.

Third, baseball is a game which needs fathers.  Fathers to teach their sons the game.  Fathers to take their kids to the game.  Fathers to build and maintain the fields.  Many of these inner city kids come from broken homes and do not have a male role model let alone someone to build them a field.  So they play basketball.

It is not the fault of the Atlanta Braves that they do not have more black players.  It is not possible, as Jesse said after his meeting (during the photo op and the camera time which is really why Jesse does anything in the first place) to "recruit black players."  Major League Baseball would love more black players, but black players are not interested in baseball.  To point the finger at any team for not meeting Jesse's quota is insulting.  Jesse is trying to find racism where racism is not. 

Time after time, this man comes up with issues that are non-issues and is enabled by the media to go on the air and make totally false accusations based on flimsy evidence and cloak it in the name of justice.  What's next?  Why aren't there any black coaches in the NHL?  How come Tiger Woods is the only prominent black golfer?  Why aren't there more black drivers in NASCAR?

Jesse, please, for the love of humanity, sit down.  Because the only thing you do is rock the boat.

Lightning Round

• In the quest for Lord Stanley's cup, I have to give it to the Dominator.  He's 42 years old and is playing like a kid, flopping around on the ice like a beached whale and all.  He stopped 31 shots in the Wings 2-1 win over the Ducks.  This series will be very physical if tonight was any indication.
• Anytime the White Sox want to stop confusing Odallas Perez with Johan Santana, fine by me.  Nice effort by Jon Garland and only one pitcher (Bobby Jenks) came out of the pen.  Anytime the Sox don't use Mike MacDougal, they have a chance of winning. Sox and Royals tonight at US Cellphone Field. Mark Buehrle, who has problems with the Royals from time to time takes the hill against Scott Elarton.  The Sox have a tendency to make someone like Elarton, who is making his first appearance since being injured, look like Pedro Martinez.
  
• The Milwaukee Brewers had their first big test Friday night in New York and while they lost to the Mets 5-4, they looked good while doing it.  Jeff Suppan, who pretty much took the Mets out of the NLCS last year by himself, had a bit of an off night surrendering home runs to David Wright and Carlos DelGado, but the Brewers mounted a charge late in the game capped by a two run homer by shortstop J.J. Hardy to get the margin to within 1.  The Brewers six game win streak was snapped.    The Brewers best chance of winning a game in this series may be today as ace Ben Sheets meets batting practice pitcher (6,39 ERA) Mike Pelfrey. Let's see how they respond this afternoon.
• Keyshawn Johnson says he is in no hurry to sign with anybody which is code for "my phone does not ring."
• This just in: Reports say Dale Earnhardt Jr. is signing with RCR.  Wait, this has just been handed to me.  No, he isn't.  My, how people like to talk.
  
• It seems that the USADA is more interested in what Floyd Landis knows about Lance Armstrong than they are about anything to do with Floyd Landis.  This is wrong on so many levels.
  
• How self destructive does one individual have to be to get kicked out of a sport for an entire season because of drug use and then flunk another drug test when asking for readmission.  What an abysmal failure Ricky Williams is as a football player and as a human being. 
  
• One of the things I have considered since I was given more free time was to pursue my culinary education.  If you know me, you know I am serious about this as cooking is one of my passions and I seem to have an aptitude for it.  Here's the number one reason this dream is probably dead on the table.
• Can you believe this?  Disney is producing an animated film about a Princess and a Frog (yeah, right, like that ever happens) and before a cell was even painted, it has had to change the name of the film, the name of leading character and the setting of the film to avoid being ticketed by the PC police.  Is this our reality forever?  These are probably the same people that think Shrek is too  fat, the Flintstones and Geico are unfair to Cavemen and coyotes are unfairly portrayed in Roadrunner cartoons as clumsy and unable to properly handle explosives.  Please, get a life people.
• Mel Gibson has been praised by a judge on his accomplishments in alcohol rehab. Unfortunately, there is no rehab for antisemitism.
• In Massachusetts, a man who was accused of raping his brother's girlfriend had the charges against him dropped.  He allegedly crawled into bed with her while she was sleeping in a dark room.  She, thinking it was her boyfriend, was more than happy to do the wild thang.  When she discovered it was the brother and not the boyfriend, she cried rape.  The court threw it out because the law says that dishonesty or telling a lie to get consensual sex is not rape.  Two quick points: If you've had sex with a person on several occasions, you'd have to be Helen Keller not to know it's someone else, which leads me to believe the alleged rapist when he says she came on to him and she's covering it up.  Second, if lying to get lucky were a crime, the entire country would be wearing ankle bracelets.
• After you watch this, you'll never want to eat a Whopper again.