Y’all gonna fight or just talk about it?
Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker said he doesn’t understand why Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza was incensed by Johnny Cueto’s pitch high over David DeJesus’ head. He also suggested a way to settle their differences.
Baker’s suggestion: ”I just wish they’d put them in a room and let them box and it would be over with - like hockey.”
Baker said Monday the Cincinnati ace “couldn’t have hit Wilt Chamberlain with that pitch.” Both dugouts were warned after the play in the sixth inning of the Cubs’ 5-4, 10-inning victory Sunday. An angry Garza called Cueto “immature” after the game.
“That’s immature on his part,” Garza said. “If he wants to say something to me, he knows where my locker is. If he’s got a problem, he can throw at me, and I’ll do the same. Hopefully, he grows … up. I hope he hears this.
I really don’t care. I don’t know ifthere’s anything between him and [DeJesus], but I’ll stop it.
“I don’t think you intentionally try to injure somebody. I hope the league looks at it. I don’t want him suspended or anything. I hope his players talk to him and show him the way it is.”Tough guy
Chuck Norris has come to the defense of quarterback Tim Tebow, leading a charge to campaign for Tebow to be signedby the Jacksonville Jaguars. “He reminds me of myself,” Norris said.
Wrote Reggie Hayes of The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind.: “Sources say the Jaguars are more likely to make Norris their inside linebacker, but they’re a bit concerned about him being 73 years old.”Putt, putt
The LPGA Tour was quick to announce last week that it would go along with the new rule that bans anchored strokes, even though a few of its players use the long putters.
One of them is Mo Martin, who has used a broom-handle putter anchored to the chest from the day she first learned to play.
Martin grew up with scoliosis, though not to the same degree as former Arkansas Razorback Stacy Lewis, the defending LPGA Player of the Year. Martin didn’t have to wear a brace or have surgery.
“I was 6 years old,” Martin said. “My dad wanted me to play a sport for life, and he thought the long putter would spare my back. And if there was a stink about them, he thought it might be an advantage.”
Martin said she was frustrated that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and the United States Golf Association - the sport’s premier governing bodies - proposed and adopted the new rule, though she won’t fight it.
Like others, she has until 2016 to change.
“I based my career on it, and now they’re telling me I can’t use it,” she said. “But I have respect for the USGA and R&A, and I’ll go along with what they say. The frustrating part is the stigma - people who can’t putt have to go to a long putter.” Winning play
During last week’s LPGA tournament in the Bahamas, Laura Davies stayed with the rest of the golfers at the Atlantis Resort with its large casino. For those wondering how she ever pulled herself away to get to the golf course, Davies had a surprise.
“I don’t like casinos. I don’t go anymore,” she said. “I’d rather bet on the horses and football.
I’ll walk through it to get to breakfast.”
Why did she give up on the casinos?
“I don’t win anymore,” she said.
Quote of the day
“God blessed him with
a lightning bolt on the
right side of his body.” Arkansas reliever Colby Suggs on Razorbacks starter Ryne Stanek, whose fastball has topped 100 mph
Sports, Pages 18 on 05/29/2013