Alter The Course

I admire the decision that the Washington Nationals have made concerning only letting Steven Strasburg to pitch 180-200 innings this year and when that comes they are going to shut his pitching down for the year in order not to wear his arm out.  A former number one draft pick who has already had reconstruction surgery on his arm the Nationals  are taking it easy with Strasburg.

The problem for them is they are in the playoff picture and can very easily win the National League East and be in the playoffs and at the rate Strasburg is pitching now they will shut him down before then.  My question is knowing they were going to limit his innings why they don't just pitch him one time a week  There are 26 weeks in a major league regular season at if he pitches six innings every week for 26 weeks that adds up 156 and he would still have enough for the playoffs.   Every plan has to have a plan B an I think the Nationals should be working on B right Now.

The dilemma facing N C State incoming freshmen Rodney Purvis is not as uncommon as we seem to think.  Purvis one of State basketball's top five in the nation  incoming freshmen basketball class is being held out of school by the Wolfpack over the NCAA's checking of Purvis's high school records to make sure his private high school was teaching him core courses that would make him eligible to be in college.  This is a private school issue and I know of a couple of kids right here in Rocky Mount who graduated high school from a private school here that could not get accepted to go to college at certain schools because their high school did not teach the core classes that most colleges require.  I'll be shocked if he plays for the Pack.

I have to admit that my picks last week in high school football was about as rotten as you can ever get.  I was 0 for the night.  There is good news however.  It can't get any worse.

It is funny sometimes how we are all enemy's when we go to a ball game but when the game is over most of our kids hang out with each other or are at least friends.  Last week ECU women's soccer played a match at Campbell and Morgan saw and talked with Ally Glover former Knight of Northern Nash.  Ally is the starting goalie for the Pirates.