Josh Hamilton (You Got To Be Kidding)

Get out the Steroid checking machine as Josh Hamilton of Raleigh and the Texas Rangers is setting the pace that will break the home run record set by steroid user Barry Bonds.  In case you didn't know it Hamilton is checked twice a week from has past alcohol and drug addictions.  He even had a relapse of alcohol just before the spring training got under way.

I am a real fan of Josh Hamilton due to the fact he has openly admitted his past and tells you if fights urges every day.  How in the world can anyone with a closet full of skeletons produce the way he has and is doing.  If he keeps up this pace after thirty three games he is hitting 400- 18 home runs and 44 rbi.  If he were to stay at this pace all year he was hit almost 90 home runs  drive in more that 225 runs.  Both of those stats would be world records and there will be no I wonder whether he on the juice because we know he isn't with all the weekly test administered by MLB.

Now we all know he cannot keep up this pace and at some point in time he will go 0-20  not hit a home run for a month.  But with all he goes through every day just to try to live I wouldn't say normal life but to just survive you have to pull for the guy.  You know after the last fifteen years with all the tainted records because of steroids being used it sure would be nice that if someone who we know is clean would rip the juiced records to shreds.

Brian Goodwin who has missed the last month after his groin injury  in like the 7th game of his pro career in Hagerstown Maryland is expected back in Hagerstown soon.  The Washington Nationals have taken extra care to insure his injury has healed 100 percent.  He has probably been ready to play for two weeks but the Nationals see something in Brian that they don't want him playing injured all the time.  He has rehabbed back in the Nationals Florida camp.  It will be interesting to see whether he picks up the torrid pace that he set the first week in minor league baseball before the injury.

We are in the last week of Division one college baseball's regular season and unless four  teams fall apart over the next two weeks Florida State, North Carolina and N C State and Virginia  are all in line to host Regionals the first week in June.  FSU is second, Carolina fifth  the Pack eleventh and Virginia twelfth  in the updated as of today RPI.  State has not hosted a Regional since 2003 when they had to play the Regional in Wilson at Fleming Stadium  while Doak Field was being expanded. Clemson, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and ECU are all in the top 30 and should easily get births  to the College playoffs.