Chip Shots: Quickshots: Those Who Can Play, Those Who Can't Pitch

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I'm Chip Ramsey a career broadcaster who has been a sports radio program director in Milwaukee and Nashville. I've covered everything from high school and college sports (including the SEC, Big Ten, MVC and OVC) to Major League Baseball, The NFL and the NHL. I have a few things to say, and when I want to say them, I say them here.

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Chip Shots: Quickshots: Those Who Can Play, Those Who Can't Pitch

Quickshots: Those Who Can Play, Those Who Can't Pitch

What a sorry development concerning former White Sox prospect Brian Anderson. Unable to live up to his hype with the White Sox and Red Sox and not even making the roster of the lowly Royals, Anderson has agreed to reinvent himself as a pitcher. It worked for Sergio Santos, but I just get the feeling that all BA will ever be is 4A.
The NCAA wants to expand their men's basketball tournament to 96 teams. My idea was add one more week to the tournament and let all the D-1 teams play. In all honesty, I'm not a fan of expanding the tournament and here's why: There are too many D-2 and D-3 and NAIA teams posing as D-1 basketball teams simply because of the cash grab the tournament provides. The NCAA needs to raise the bar a lot higher to keep these teams where they belong in the small school division or else D-1 basketball is going to have way too many teams to manage. Expanding the tournament only enables more small school teams.
Thank-you, Captain Obvious.
Rumor has it Bob Knight will speak with DePaul regarding their open head coaching position. I hope it's just as a consultant and not as a serious candidate. The Chicago media would drive him nuts and at nearly 70, I think he should just sit on his D-1 record and look back at a terrific career. Maybe they are talking to him about his former player Isaiah Thomas who has expressed interest in the position.
Are we such a nation of wimps that when Charles Barkley flips off Ernie Johnson on live TV we all go wacky? So what. As far as I know, there is no FCC rule prohibiting hand signals. And even if there were, cable TV is exempt. Calm yourselves, people. (Larry Brown Sports)
So much for being under the radar.
In something shocking to no one, the MLS season opener declined by half. That's right, they're down to their last two viewers. (Sports Media Watch)
For the fan that knows everything, the origins of the names of all 30 MLB teams.
Stuttering Dave Wannstedt is quoted as saying something all of us who have followed his career have know for years: "I'm not going anywhere." (Football Rumor Mill)
Now every SEC team besides Vandy and Mississippi State may be playing in a bowl game.
Just in time for Easter: George Carlin's witty views on God. Yup, I'm going to hell.