I have been hearing Fay Vincent frequently on sports radio stations in the last few weeks and now I am reading columnists talking about him so much that I suspect we will be soon be having the Fay Vincent Revival Tour across the country. I find it strange that all of a sudden everyone wants to talk to him. He has been a non-person for almost a decade. Why do I suspect that Fay Vincent is scheduling these interviews/events so that he can criticize Bud Selig and look back with 20/20 hindsight and a bit of revisionist history to make himself look good? Some commentators and writers have gone so far as to say that things would be better if Fay were still the commish. I disagree. Fay Vincent was as effective as the Energizer Bunny in that job. Quick, name three things he did to solidify baseball as the national pastime and to assure its stable future. Time's up; pencils down. He is part of the nostalgic look back to a time when he and his good buddy, Bart Giamatti, ran baseball in the ambiance of Giamatti's poems about the game. It may give you a reason to smile and sigh. As a regime of leadership, the word that leaps to my mind for these two is: FECKLESS !!

Twins' outfielder Torii Hunter seems to have solved the problem of pitchers in the AL being protected by the DH and not having to bat after they hit an opposing player. Danny Baez drilled Hunter in the ribs last night. When Hunter got to his feet, he did not charge the mound; he picked up the ball, fired it at Baez and hit him in the hip. Could this be the beginning of a new trend?

The three children of Ted Williams are going to try mediation to settle their dispute over whether or not to cremate the late slugger's remains or leave them cryonically frozen. Two of the children – the ones favoring cryonics – issued a statement through their attorney that they "feel strongly that the disposition of their father's body is a private matter." Mediation would theoretically avoid the public spectacle of a court proceeding.

Memo to Williams children and lawyers:

It should be a private matter but you – with no help - have already made it a public spectacle. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

What middle ground might a mediator find between freezing and burning? Freeze the ashes? Microwave the cryonics vessel?

Speaking of folks who will not be attending any MENSA meetings any time soon, three men in Florida were arrested for using a stolen credit card to purchase almost 200 tickets to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays games with the intention of scalping them outside Tropicana Field. They were arrested as they went to pick up the tickets; probably, the team alerted police because this was the single largest ticket order for the team since their opening day of the franchise. The mother of one of the men who was arrested said that he did not know much about baseball. I think I might have concluded that without her help.

The Florida Marlins AAA affiliate is in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Imagine it is mid-April and you have been "sent down" by the Marlins. In addition to having to adjust to the cultural differences between Calgary and Miami, think about the weather adjustment. From bathing suits and flip-flops to overcoats and ice axes. Yikes.

The Golf Channel televised two solid hours of press conferences going into the British Open. And they had the chutzpah to actually put that in the TV listings as their programming for that time slot. Anyone who actually kept the Golf Channel on constantly during that period without once leaving the station would have to be clinically dead.

The Denver Nuggets held an open tryout last Sunday. More than 250 people showed up in 95-degree heat to work out for 4 hours in an attempt to get a shot to make the Nuggets – or at least get an invitation to camp. GM, Kiki Vandeweghe, said, "This is America, the land of opportunity. I wanted to provide everyone the equal opportunity to become a part of the Nuggets." I wonder if Kiki was a history major at UCLA. He chose to do this on Bastille Day. That was a day when hundreds of people took an opportunity to help themselves to opportunities previously out of their reach…

Lavon Kirkland signed a one-year deal with the Eagles and said that he chose the team because it was "the shortest route to the Super Bowl". Kirkland's been there before with the Steelers; I have not. Still, I think this might not be anything close to the shortest route…

LeRoy Butler announced his retirement due to a shoulder injury that has not healed properly and would make him miss at least the beginning of training camp that will start next week. Butler played 12 years as a safety and said that he wanted to retire rather than be cut after training camp. This is a loss that will hurt the Packers.

Finally, the New Orleans Saints recently signed DE, DaMonte McKenzie. I believe he now leads the NFL with four capital letters in his name.

But don't get me wrong, I love sports...