Bloody Syringes not included

Baseball Update:
One day after its scheduled start, the Yankees had their final home opener in what will become the old Yankee Stadium. The fans cheered Andy Pettitte and Joe Girardi picked up his first win as manager of the Yanks, a 3-2 victory over the Blue Jays.

The Cardinals also made up their home opener a day later, but unfortunately for them it didn't go as well as the Yankees game, with the Cards losing to the Rockies 2-1.

Congrats to Trevor Hoffman for picking up his 525th career save in the Padres 2-1 win over the Astros.

A bad night got even worse for Pedro Martinez. After giving up two homeruns in the first two innings, Pedro left in the fourth inning with a hamstring injury. And the Mets went onto lose to the Marlins 5-4 (10).

Speaking of the Mets, Moises Alou says he's now not blaming Steve Bartman for cursing the Cubs in 2003. After all, he couldn't have caught the ball. Good to know, 5 YEARS LATER!

In other Cubs news, two rooftop clubs whose owners have refused to share 17% of its profits with the Cubbies will have their views obstructed by the team if they don't pay up by April 5th. What are they, the mob?

The Tampa Bay Rays have exercised Carl Crawford's 2009 option while buying out Rocco Baldelli's three extra contract years for $4 million and agreed to a three year, $10.5 million deal with Dan Wheeler. Crawford will make $8.25 million next season.

The Phillies have signed reliever Rudy Seanez to help bloster their bullpen.

We've tried our best to stay out of the Clemens McNamee fray, since we've been over the story since January, but we did have to mention this little tid bit. Seems lawyers are expensive and McNamee is raising some quick cash by selling off signed Roger Clemens memorabilia. Bloody syringes not included. Too bad!

The average salary in baseball has topped $3 million. Although that's probably not true for the Marlins since their entire payroll is making less than what Alex Rodriguez will make this year.

The commissioner's office has noted that the number of foreign born players has dropped from 29% to 28% this season. Yeah America!

Nascar Update:
Tuesday afternoon rumors were a flutter that Richard Childress Racing would expand to four cars and would bring General Mills over as a sponsor. General Mills which is currently the sponsor on the 43 car, led to rumors that Bobby Labonte who drives that car would jump Petty ship. But Petty Enterprises is hoping that its just a rumor. We're thinking, you'll be needing a new driver in 2009.

UPS is reportedly looking for a new team to sponsor in 2009. They would like a rock star driver, kind of like Dale Jarrett, but most likely not one like David Reutimann who is driving the UPS car for the rest of the season.

So apparently Denny Hamlin is bit moody, you know, if you haven't noticed because his team sure has.

Jamie McMurray is hoping to move up in the points, because otherwise he'll probably be looking for a new job in May instead of say October.

News & Notes: The final two teams were added to the woman's final four. I'll give you two guess...Yeah, you're right it's UCONN and Tennessee...Indiana looks to have stolen Marquette coach Tom Crean...Sean Sutton has resigned as the head coach at Oklahoma State...And no Kansas coach Bill Self is not interested in the job...The Nuggets 126-120 win over Phoenix has moved them to 8th in the West...Meanwhile Golden State dropped to the Spurs 116-92 and have fallen out of the final playoff spot in the West...The Knicks look ready to announced Donnie Walsh as their new President...The Montreal Canadiens clinched their first division title in 16 years by beating the Senators 3-0...The Washington Capitals moved into a tie in the Southeast Division with their 4-1 win over Carolina...Jay Culter is not too happy with his Broncos teammate Brandon Marshall...I wonder how he would feel if he was teammates with Matt Leinart?...Patriots Owner Robert Kraft has apologized for the whole spygate mess...While Qualifying for this weekend's IRL race at St. Petersburg will be altered...If you haven't been keeping tabs on Formula One recently, your ears might have started to perk up when you heard about FIA racing chief Max Mosley's little Nazi orgy scandal. And that's just the kind of press that FIA does not want leading to calls for Mr. Mosley to resign. Oh but just like most pompous asses, he's rejecting those calls.

Check this out: Jay-Z and Beyonce maybe officially off the market after news broke that the pair filed for a marriage license on Tuesday. Click here for details.

It's been fun blogging with you,
Kate