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Bar Chat

04/06/2017

UNC Wins its Sixth Title

[Posted early Wed. a.m.]

Baseball Quiz: Name the only five players to have hit .300 in each of the last two seasons.  [This is the fewest since the 1989-90 seasons when there were only four.]  Answer below.

North Carolina v. Gonzaga

It took a year, but North Carolina avenged its buzzer-beating loss to Villanova and Kris Jenkins last season, defeating Gonzaga, 71-65, to claim its sixth national title.  The Tar Heels became just the fourth school to win a title a year after losing the final.

Carolina Coach Roy Williams, who won his third at the helm of the Tar Heels, besting his mentor Dean Smith’s two, didn’t want to make this season all about redemption, but among his players, many of whom were back from the prior year’s loss, certainly did talk of it constantly among themselves.

But what about Monday night’s game itself?  As I was wrapping things up, having watched Roy Williams be interviewed in the post-game, I began receiving all these sports alerts and one from the Washington Post read “In an instant classic, the Tar Heels battled back from a rough first half....”

Instant classic?  Hardly. It was a dreadful game in the purest sense, made worse by an officiating crew who arrogantly thought it was all about them, calling 44 fouls, 22 on each side, and then Carolina went 15 of 26 from the free throw line, Gonzaga just 17 of 26.

For the game, the Zags hit just 20 of 59 from the field, 34%, and the Tar Heels 26 of 73, 36%, and we’re talking one brick after another.  It wasn’t particularly tough defense that forced Carolina into just 4 of 27 from three, Joel Berry II hitting all four, out of 13 attempts, with ACC Player of the Year Justin Jackson going 0-for-9 from behind the arc.

For Gonzaga, Josh Perkins had 13 points, including three 3s, to lead the Zags to a 35-32 halftime lead, but then he was shut out in the second half.  7-footer Przemek Karnowski missed 7 of 8 from the field, including at least four layups.  Nigel Williams-Goss was 5 of 17 (and 4 of 8 from the foul line).

At least for the Tar Heels, Kennedy Meeks hauled in 10 rebounds and had some key plays at the end, while Justin Hicks finally showed the country why he is thought of as a potential lottery pick with 13 points and 9 rebounds, including the decisive field goal.

All you really needed to know when it came to the quality of play is that Joel Berry II was named Most Outstanding Player, even though he shot 7 of 19 from the field Monday (9 of 33 in the Final Four, including 2 of 14 in the semifinal contest), and just 4 of 8 from the line.

But with all the above, the last two minutes will indeed be replayed for some time.

Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times

“It was an ending for eternity, one that North Carolina will want to relive frame by frame only one year removed from a finish to its season that made the Tar Heels hit the off button.

“They can pause their screen on forward Kennedy Meeks’ hand stretching to block a shot by Gonzaga’s Nigel Williams-Goss.  They can zoom in on the wide-bodied Meeks stepping in front of an outlet pass for a steal. And they can switch to slow motion for forward Isaiah Hicks’ drive for a one-handed leaning jumper.

“Every angle will be pleasurable after North Carolina zipped past Gonzaga over the final 100 seconds of the national championship game Monday night, scoring the game’s final eight points on the way to a 71-65 victory at University of Phoenix Stadium....

“The ending Monday was equally cruel for Gonzaga, which had pushed its more storied counterpart for most of a sloppy game marred by an overabundance of fouls and missed shots.  Playing the final five minutes without freshman forward Zach Collins after he had fouled out, the Bulldogs had taken a 65-63 lead when Williams-Goss banked in a jumper with 1:53 left.

“Everything else went North Carolina’s way.

“Tar Heels forward Justin Jackson converted a layup while being fouled, resulting in a three-point play and a one-point lead for his team.  Then Williams-Goss rolled an ankle and missed his final two shots after having scored his team’s previous eight points....

“North Carolina’s Joel Berry II missed a jumper but the Bulldogs couldn’t secure a defensive rebound, and a jump ball on an ensuing scrum gave possession back to the Tar Heels.  Hicks made his one-handed jumper with 26 seconds left and Meeks blocked Williams-Goss’ final shot before Berry grabbed the rebound and fired an outlet pass that led to a Jackson dunk and a 70-65 lead for the Tar Heels.

“When Meeks stepped in front of a subsequent outlet pass by Gonzaga’s Przemek Karnowski with eight seconds left, Tar Heels fans commenced celebrating.”

In the end, Gonzaga did make their fan base proud, appearing in their first Final Four ever.

Nancy Armour / USA TODAY

“This was a championship game only North Carolina fans could love.  And even their patience was tested by the referees.

“A year after Villanova snatched the title from the Tar Heels’ hands in the closing seconds, the referees did their best to hijack this one, too.  Sure, North Carolina won its title – that’s No. 6, for those counting, and third since 2005 – with a 71-65 victory against Gonzaga. But all anyone is going to remember is whistle-a-rama.

“What had the makings of a wildly entertaining finish became – FWEEE! – an interminable slog Monday night as officials called 11 fouls – FWEEE! – in the last four-plus minutes – FWEEE! – of the second half and 27 over the  - FWEEE! – last 20 minutes. Both teams were in the bonus – FWEEE! – with 14 minutes left, bringing the game’s flow and pace – FWEEEE! – to a grinding – FWEEE! FWEEE! FWEEE! – halt.

“Just reading that makes you want to beat your head against the wall, doesn’t it? Now imagine trying to play through it.  In the biggest game of your careers, no less.

“ ‘It was an ugly game,’ North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. ‘It’s a very difficult game to call.  I’m sitting over there, I’m not thinking the officials are doing a terrible job. I swear to goodness, that’s not what I’m thinking.  I’m thinking our offense stinks.”

“While that’s true, the refs did, too.

“Gonzaga’s big men, such a crucial part of the Bulldogs’ game, were effectively neutralized by fouls.  Zach Collins picked up his third and fourth fouls within three minutes of coming in for the first time in the second half, the latter coming with 15:33 still to play. Nine seconds later, Przemek Karnowski, got called for his third foul.

“Karnowski would pick up his fourth on a flagrant with 8:02 to play while Collins would foul out with five minutes still to play.

“ ‘I’m not going to talk about the refs,’ Karnowski said.  ‘It was just a physical game.’

“The fouls – a whopping 22 for each team – were bad enough, as inconsistent as they were frequent.  But replays showed the officials missed a crucial call down the stretch, too.

“With about 30 seconds left and North Carolina clinging to a one-point lead, Kennedy Meeks and Silas Melson were scuffling for the ball under the basket when Meeks’ right hand slid over the baseline. Despite a referee standing right on top of them, no call was made.

“Meeks got possession and fed Isaiah Hicks, who scored on a jumper to make it a three-point game with 26 seconds left....

“Now, that one call wasn’t what won North Carolina its latest championship.  Or cost Gonzaga its first one.

“But this wasn’t the game either team expected to play, and both deserved better in an event of this magnitude.

“ ‘Man I can’t watch this anymore man!  I would like to see the kids decide who wins the game!” no less an expert than LeBron James said on Twitter, echoing the sentiments of pretty much everyone, everywhere.

“That the officiating was bad – scratch that, awful – was probably fitting given it’s been a theme all tournament. Yes, Kentucky fans, your outrage from the Elite Eight is duly noted.

“Actually, officiating has been an issue all year. If this doesn’t prompt the NCAA to consider adding a sixth foul, I don’t know what will.

“But the refs ruined what had the potential to be a great national championship.  Worse, they stole the spotlight from the ones who deserved it, the players.”

Chuck Culpepper / Washington Post

“The whole trail had been riddled with harrowing views and hairpin escapes. It began 364 nights prior with the Villanovan nightmare in Houston. It rang with snarls from Duke (in the ACC tournament semifinals), from Arkansas (which led by five with 3:30 left in the second round) and from Kentucky (which led by five with five minutes left in the South Region final).  It included the bizarre and sputtering pause with the four missed free throws in the last six seconds against Oregon in the national semifinal. And it all happened with an academic scandal still unresolved and howling from the woods.”

On this last point, it’s going to be interesting to see what Roy Williams does.  Dean Smith told him, after he had retired at 66, not to do the same. Williams is 66, but clearly the program is going to be on serious probation. Would he really want to stick around?  

--Patrick Ewing was hired as the new Georgetown coach, replacing John Thompson III.  So Ewing has come home to a program he led into ultra-prominence, appearing in three NCAA championship games between 1981-85, winning one, and leaving a lasting mark.

Ewing, now 54, takes over a program in freefall after two consecutive losing seasons, but why would the school think he could be a successful college coach after spending 15 years as an NBA assistant coach and not receiving an offer to be a head coach in that league?

Jerry Brewer / Washington Post

“There is an importance, if not desperation, to this hire that suppresses some of the cool or cute aspects of a homecoming. Fading in relevance, Georgetown just turned to someone who has never coached in college, never toiled in recruiting and never been charged with the dual responsibility of overseeing a team’s academic and athletic development.  If this job had been given to just about any other Hall of Famer with similar credentials, the reaction would be much nastier.

“But this is Patrick Ewing and Georgetown. And even though this begins as a feel-good story, there’s a substance about Ewing that provides ample hope it will be more than a fleeting public-relations gambit, a John Thompson Jr.-pacifying hire that ends badly.”

Ewing immediately went into coaching when his playing career ended and for the past 15 years he has been an assistant at Washington, Houston, Orlando and Charlotte.

“(But) despite being one of the best centers ever, Ewing hasn’t approached coaching as a spoiled former star.  He has taken the craft seriously, learned from some of the game’s greatest minds and gained a reputation as a valuable assistant.  He has been passed over for numerous NBA head coaching jobs, but he hasn’t pouted. He keeps working.

“That’s why so many people were happy for Ewing when Georgetown made his hiring official Monday.  He has paid dues that would’ve made most legends scoff.  He keeps contributing to the game.  It’s wonderful to see him rewarded.”

Georgetown University President Jack DeGioia and Athletic Director Lee Reed announced the hiring of Ewing. DeGioia said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post’s Tim Bontemps: “We’ve known the man for 35 years, the qualities that are associated with the very identity of Patrick Ewing: his prodigious work ethic, his burning competitive intensity.  He has earned everything that he has achieved.”

--Yes, way, way too early...but the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook has the following 2017-18 college basketball title odds.

Kentucky, Louisville, Duke 10-1
Kansas, North Carolina, Villanova, Gonzaga 12-1

But this sports book has Wake Forest at 300-1!  Yes, we’re losing a super ballplayer in John Collins, and we won’t exactly replace his production, but our four leading guards return, plus what is supposed to be a solid group of freshmen coming in, and a senior big man in Dinos Mitoglou, and while we aren’t going to win, at 300-1 you’d be a fool not to take a flyer anyway.  [He typed with a smile.]

MLB

--The New York Mets improved to 36-20 on Opening Day in beating the Braves at Citi Field on Monday, 6-0, with Noah Syndergaard throwing six scoreless.  The Mets’ best-mark-in-baseball in openers is even more astounding when you consider they lost their first eight.

Also Monday, the Washington Nationals got 7 innings of 2-run ball from Stephen Strasburg, with Bryce Harper homering, the Nats defeating the Marlins 4-2 in their opener.

And Clayton Kershaw threw 7 innings of one-run ball, 0 walks, 8 strikeouts, as the Dodgers blasted the Padres 14-3, with Yasmani Grandal smashing two home runs for L.A.  I forgot this guy hit 27 homers last season, though he batted just .228.  [Dave Kingmanesque, you might say.]

Tuesday, the Yankees shut out Tampa Bay 5-0 as CC Sabathia threw five shutout innings, while Didi Gregorius’ fill-in, Ronald Torreyes, hit a two-run homer.

And Justin Verlander struck out 10 in 6 1/3, allowing two runs in the Tigers’ 6-3 delayed opener against the White Sox.

--We note the passing of former Washington Senators slugger, Roy Sievers.  He was 90.

Time doesn’t allow me to do his story justice so I’ll pick up the tale next BC.

NFL

--Funny how I brought up Tony Romo and a potential broadcast career last time, just saying that people appeared to be clamoring for him to retire and make the move, specifically replacing Phil Simms at CBS, and wouldn’t you know, Tuesday the story hit that he is indeed doing that, filing papers to retire and move into the booth...replacing Phil Simms as the color analyst on that network’s No. 1 broadcast team alongside Jim Nantz.

Romo turns 37 on April 21 and according to ESPN, made the decision for health reasons and the opportunity to spend more time with his family.

ESPN reported that Romo will be designated a post-June 1 release, which would mean that he would count $10.7 million against the salary cap this year and $8.9 million in 2018, rather than $24.7 million in 2017.  The $14 million pickup in cap space would become available June 2.

Romo began his playing career as an undrafted free agent out of Eastern Illinois who chose the Cowboys over the Broncos.

But despite a 78-49 career record, Romo four times failed to get the Cowboys past the divisional round of the playoffs, finishing with a 2-4 postseason mark.  He retires as the Cowboys’ all-time leader in passing yards with 34,183 and touchdown passes, 248. His passer rating of 97.1 is fourth all time.

But he was limited to just five games his last two seasons after he broke and then rebroke his left collarbone.

As for Phil Simms, who has been the lead analyst for nearly 20 years, it’s expected, today, that he will stay at CBS as his contract has years to run.

--Amazon.com announced it will stream 10 Thursday night games for the NFL this year; buying the rights for $50 million.  It will offer the games free to its Prime subscribers.

NBA

--Russell Westbrook matched Oscar Robertson’s single-season record with his 41st triple-double in leading Oklahoma City over Milwaukee on Tuesday, 110-79. 

Westbrook had 12 points, 13 rebounds, and 13 assists.

--Huge game in the NBA Wednesday night...Cleveland at Boston, the two tied at 50-27 for first in the Eastern Conference.

--ESPN NBA host Sage Steele has been replaced by Michelle Beadle for Steele’s conservative comments on social media that courted controversy among certain segments of the population.  Steele is being assigned other duties at the network.

Golf Balls

Unfortunately, I learned of the Lexi Thompson, LPGA fiasco, after I posted last Sunday, but I wouldn’t have been able to do the story justice anyway on such short notice.

Here’s how it went down.  Thompson was hit with a retroactive four-shot penalty spotted by a TV viewer almost 24 hours later, which ultimately cost her the ANA Inspiration championship, the LPGA’s first major of the year.

Thompson was two shots ahead after completing the 12th hole at the Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs, California when she was approached by two rules officials.  They told her what those watching on television already knew.  That an unnamed person had emailed in during the final round to say Thompson had broken the rules during Saturday’s third round.

Thompson had missed a birdie putt on the 17th green, leaving it about two feet short. The 22-year-old America appeared about to finish it off, but stopped and decided to mark it.  Replays showed that when replacing the ball she obviously did so in the wrong place, if only a centimeter from its original position.

But when tour officials watched it again on Sunday after being alerted, there would inevitably only be one verdict.  A two-shot penalty for the offense and a two-shot penalty for signing for a wrong score.

Sunday, as she walked towards the 13th tee after being informed, Thompson asked, “Is this a joke?”  When she realized it wasn’t, the tears began to flow.  From being two ahead of her playing partner, Suzanne Pettersen, she was now two behind.

But somehow Thompson birdied 13 and 15 and with Pettersen seemingly more affected than Thompson, Lexi took the lead again.

But up ahead, Korean So Yeon Ryu was finishing off and had a one shot lead, meaning Thompson had to birdie the last hole to force a playoff.

Thompson did so, narrowly missing a 20-foot eagle putt.

Back home, Tiger Woods tweeted: “Viewers at home should not be officials wearing stripes. Let’s go @Lexi, win this thing anyway.”

But Ryu birdied the first playoff hole and Thompson managed only a par.

John Strege / Golf World

“What is a major championship without a television viewer and the Rules of Golf seizing the story line and evoking responses similar to that of the tournament leader Lexi Thompson?...

“ ‘ I didn’t realize I did that,’ Thompson said through tears. ‘I did not intentionally do that. But you know what, I fought hard coming in and I didn’t give up.  But so many players played great, so congrats to So Yeon.’....

“The LPGA had been notified of the violation on Sunday via an email from an unidentified viewer and addressed to the LPGA.com’ Fan Feedback. The email came in when Thompson and playing partner Suzann Pettersen were on the ninth hole.  Rules officials headed to the television compound and reviewed a recording, and concluded that Thompson indeed had improperly replaced the ball.

“It was eerily reminiscent of the U.S. Open at Oakmont last summer, when Dustin Johnson, in the midst of the final round, was assessed a penalty for having caused his ball to move on a green. He went on to win anyway.  There, too, was the penalty given Tiger Woods in the 2013 Masters for having taken an improper drop that was identified via television by David Eger, a former senior director of rules and competition for the USAGA.

“And in the U.S. Women’s Open last year, Brittany Lang defeated Anna Nordqvist in a playoff after Nordqvist had been penalized for brushing the sand in a fairway bunker, an infraction brought to the USGA’s attention by a Fox Sports cameraman.

“The backlash against the rules and the rulings was widespread and immediate in all three instances, as it was on Sunday, if Twitter is the guide.

“ ‘Sure, but what’s my choice?’ (LPGA rules official Sue) Witters said. ‘I can’t go to bed tonight knowing that I let a rule slide.  You know. It’s a hard thing to do, and it makes me sick, to be honest with you.’....

“The ruling, by all accounts was a correct one, but is among those being assessed and possibly replaced (in 2019) by what is termed ‘a reasonable judgment standard,’ that if a player in his or her judgment made a reasonable attempt at returning the ball to the correct spot that the player cannot be second-guessed.”

Tuesday, in his press conference at Augusta, Phil Mickelson at first said he didn’t want to address the Thompson controversy, but then he started talking anyway.

“To have a tournament be decided like that, with all the scenarios going around, as far as viewers calling in, as far as it being a 1-foot putt with really no advantage, just a little bit of loose marking, if you will, something that happens all the time, intentionally and unintentionally. ...I think it should be reversed. I think she should be given the trophy.”

Mickelson added: I know a number of guys (on the PGA Tour) that are loose with how they mark the ball and have not been called on it. They will move the ball two, three inches in front of their mark, and this is an intentional way to get it out of any type of impression and so forth and I think that kind of stuff needs to stop.”

--Dustin Johnson is the favorite in Las Vegas to win the Masters at 5-1. But since 2008, no Vegas betting favorite at the beginning of the week sported the green jacket on Sunday.

I’m going with Justin Rose, though  a very popular pick is Jon Rahm.

--When it comes to Augusta, the ability to sink 5-to-8-feet putts will probably be decisive.

Golfweek’s David Dusek notes that “PGA Tour pros last season made 127,710 out of 128,436 attempts from 3 feet or closer (99.42 percent), and from 5 feet they still made an impressive 92 percent.

But when they faced putts that were 36 inches farther out, from 8 feet, things start to change. From that distance the percentage drops to 53.67 percent.

I guess anyone who golfs isn’t surprised by the difference between 5 feet and 8 feet.  From 10 feet, by the way, the percentage holed is 41.3%.

--This is the first Masters in 63 years without Arnold Palmer.

Phil Mickelson: “As an amateur, I played my first Masters practice round with Arnold, at his invitation. I saw how he kept looking over at the spectators, smiling at everyone, giving the two thumbs up, and really seeing them.  ‘Don’t ever walk by them as though they’re not there,’ he told me.  ‘They’re there.’

“In 1996, the tour set aside an area for autograph signing. I don’t know why, but it never really took, and they dropped it after that one year.  But it worked for me, helped me organize my practice day.  I still do it.  Practicing is more demanding than playing, you know.  You’re concentrating just as hard, but you’re hitting three times as many shots. I found myself avoiding the people during practice, and I didn’t like that feeling. So, being able to block out a set time for autographing helped me.  And, at Arnold’s urging, I’ve tried to make my signature a little more legible.  ‘Sometimes,’ he said, ‘you only have a few seconds to make the only impression you’ll ever make on that individual. Take the full time. These are the people who make it possible for us to play golf for a living.’

“He was always the one to emulate, wasn’t he?  And there was never anything phony about it.”  [Golf Digest]

Ernie Els was 22 when he arrived to play the PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis in 1992, and he received a special pairing: He’d play alongside Palmer. Here’s his recollection of that week, as well as the relationship he’d eventually build with The King.

“In ’92, I played with Arnold at the PGA, which Pricey (Nick Price) won in St. Louis.  On the back nine of the second day, he invited me to come and play in his event the next year: I was like, ‘Seriously?’  And then I went and played with him at Bay Hill in ’93.

“The weather was awful (at Bay Hill).  I remember him hitting driver-driver onto the green at 18 (a par 4) and two-putting to make the cut. And I remember I missed the cut by a shot.  He made the cut.  He was like 62 or 63.

“The year I won (at Bay Hill), in 1998, the first time, I remember having beers with him in the locker room.  I just became No. 1 in the world, beating Tiger (Woods) and Davis (Love III) in 36 holes (on Sunday), and we sat in the locker room until late, just drinking beer and talking.  I remember him saying that was the way he remembers the Tour.  That was sweet.  I had a lot of great times with Arnold. He was always giving me a little shove in the ribs, you know, like ‘C’mon, go win the Masters.’  He’s real.  He’s always been for real.” [Golfweek]

Go Deacs!

Baseball America’s April 3 College Baseball Poll

1. Oregon State
2. Louisville
3. TCU
4. North Carolina
5. Clemson
6. Texas Tech
7. Auburn
8. Florida
9. Oklahoma
10. Arizona
17. Wake Forest!!!

The Deacs are 23 in the Apr. 3 Coaches poll.

And fellow Wake alum (and frat bro), Mark K., reminded me that the Wake Forest men’s tennis team is No. 1 in the country!!!

[Coaches Poll...Apr. 4]

1. Wake Forest
2. Ohio State
3. Baylor
4. Virginia
5. Southern California

Stuff

--The NHL announced Monday that after months of debate it has decided not to send its players to the Olympics in South Korea in 2018.

NHL owners were increasingly unhappy over the prospects of the league shutting down for weeks every four years to take part in the Olympics tournament, at the height of the regular season, too. So the NHL was seeking concessions from its Players Association and/or the International Olympic Committee and none was forthcoming.

Players immediately blasted the decision of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who won the 2006 Olympic gold medal with Sweden, said: “Disappointing news, (the NHL) won’t be part of the Olympics 2018.  A huge opportunity to market the game at the biggest stage is wasted. But most of all, disappointing for all the players that can’t be part of the most special adventure in sports.”

USA Hockey responded that there is a vast player pool and they still plan to compete.

The IOC had previously warned that if the NHL didn’t participate in the South Korean Olympics, it could not necessarily count on taking part in the 2022 Beijing Games.

This story is far from over.  A player revolt could be in the offing.

--The NCAA said on Tuesday it “reluctantly” lifted its ban on holding championship events in North Carolina, removing its six-month-old prohibition less than a week after the state’s legislature repealed a so-called bathroom bill that had led to costly boycotts of the state.

The NCAA said in a statement that the law’s replacement in North Carolina had “minimally achieved a situation where we believe NCAA championships may be conducted in a nondiscriminatory environment.”

Critics of the state’s new law condemned the NCAA’s decision.

--The Wall Street Journal’s Thomas MacMillan reports that the “raptor population in Manhattan has increased in recent years, making red-tailed hawks a more common sight as nests have been cropping up on air conditioners and fire escapes, bird experts say.”

The hawk population in Manhattan has grown from three known pairs in 2006 to 14 or 15 today.

There certainly is an abundance of food for hawks – bountiful rats, pigeons and squirrels.  In addition, city officials have been limiting the use of rat poison, which can kill hawks.

There is one famous hawk, who circles over Central Park; Pale Male, now 27 years old, who first attracted attention when he was spotted nesting in a Manhattan building in the 1990s.

Hawks mate for life, by the way. 

The Harris’s Hawk was recently added to the All-Species List Top Ten for being the lone bird of prey that hunts in packs, on the ground!

This story reminds me I need to go back out to the Raptor Trust in nearby Millington, N.J., which treats injured birds.

Lastly, no word yet from the All-Species List High Court on any penalties for ‘elephant’ after its attack on park rangers at Kruger National Park the other day.  ASL board member Brad K. asked me the other day if I had ever met any of the ASLHC judges.  Can’t say I have.

Top 3 songs for the week 4/4/70: #1 “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Simon & Garfunkel)  #2 “Let It Be” (The Beatles)  #3 “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)” (John Ono Lennon)...and...#4 “ABC” (The Jackson 5)  #5 “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” (Edison Lighthouse)  #6 “Spirit In The Sky” (Norman Greenbaum) #7 “House Of The Rising Sun” (Frijid Pink)  #8 “The Rapper” (The Jaggerz)  #9 “Come And Get It” (Badfinger)  #10 “Easy Come, Easy Go” (Bobby Sherman)

Baseball Quiz Answer: Only five to hit .300 in each of the last two seasons.  Joey Votto (Reds), D.J. LeMahieu (Rockies), Miguel Cabrera (Tigers), Jose Altuve (Astros) and Yunel Escobar (Angels).

Next Bar Chat, Monday...enjoy The Masters!

 

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