Our Long National Nightmare is finally over.

Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that Pete Rose, MLB's all-time hit leader will now be eligible for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Along with Rose are the eight members of the 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson who, along with seven of his teammates were found guilty of fixing the outcome of the World Series that year.

The voting on Rose, Jackson, and the others won't happen until December 2027, with possible induction coming in the summer of 2028.

Also on tap this week - following a horrible injury to Jason Tatum, the Knicks appear poised to eliminate the Boston Celtics, and the Mets and Yankees head to the Bronx for a 3-game series with Juan Soto in the spotlight.

And to wrap things up, we talk about Wolfgang Van Halen's incredible performance with his band Mammoth this past Sunday at Debonair Music Hall in Teaneck.

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Former Alabama head football coach Nick Saban isn't happy with the way N-I-L money is changing the landscape of college football. And neither is Alabama Senator (and former Auburn head coach) Tommy Tuberville.

In a post on X/Twitter a few days ago, Tuberville said, " College football is the heart and soul of America — but it’s in danger if we don’t level the playing field."

So Saban and Tuberville have appealed to President Donald Trump to get involved.

Really?

With everything going on in our country and around the world, they want the President to do something to "level the playing field" of college football?

And that also begs the question, "Level it for whom?"

Jim Monaghan and Chris Swendeman talk about that, plus Gene Simmons, Game One of the Knicks/Celtics series, plus Yankees reliever Devin Williams and Mets outfielder Juan Soto.

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OK, Yankees fans, now it's your turn to dial it back.

A week ago, we were talking about the need for Mets fans to back off Juan Soto because he was going to be just fine.

Now, after a couple of disastrous relief appearances, it's Yankee fans who want Devin Williams gone...like yesterday.

So while Soto has raised his batting average 36 points in the last 10 games to quiet at least some of the naysayers for awhile, Williams is in a deep funk - like an 11.25 ERA kind of funk.

This week on the Two-Minute Drill podcast, Jim Monaghan offers what may be a simple fix for Williams, and we put Chris Swendeman on the clock to evaluate the NFL Draft choices made by the Giants and Jets.

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Philadelphia sports fans have a (well-deserved) reputation of being among the worst in sports. The booing of their own players, the abuse of fans of the other team - those are just a couple of examples.

Now obviously, they're not the only fabase to exhibit this kind of behavior (been in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium recently?) but they have taken abhorrent acting out to a whole different level.

And that's why it was so disheartening to listen to New York sports talk radio last week as hosts were basically pleading with Mets fans to not boo Juan Soto during the weekend homestand against the Cardinals.

By his own lofty standards, Soto has not performed to his career levels yet but even with a slow start, he's on a pace to hit 22 home runs and drive in about 90. And it's not as if the team is struggling, either - they're in first place in the National League East with the third best record in baseball.

Dial it back, Mets fans. Let the clowns in Philadelphia be the idiots when it comes to how you root for your team.

Also on tap - the Jets were in a no-win PR situation with Aaron Rodgers, and Chris Swendeman is a VERY cranky Rangers fan.

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Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava has announced that he is leaving the school because he's not happy with the $2.2 million N-I-L (name-image-likeness) deal that he signed. He's stated that he is looking for $4 million.

And you know what? Someone is going to pay him.

There are currently three antitrust lawsuits pending against the NCAA, and one of them - House vs NCAA - could have a decision coming down over the next few days.

And also on the horizon is the matter of Title IX which, despite what President Trump alluded to recently, may be a HUGE factor in how college athletes get paid.

A very fired-up Chris Swendeman pleads his case for the disaster that awaits the NCAA with the Nico situation as well as the looming decision in the House settlement.

And we manage to get a little Yankees and Mets into the conversation, too.

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We woke up this morning to find out that the Toronto Blue Jays had signed Vladimir Guerrero Jr to a 14-year $500 million contract extension and one of the happiest people on the planet is New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso.

After waiting all winter to finally reach an agreement with the Mets on a two-year contract as a free agent, Alonso may find himself in a FAR better position at the end of the 2025 season.

The Pittsburgh Pirates come under a lot of heat in this week's episode for a variety of reasons - from disrespecting the memory of perhaps their greatest player, to the probability of wasting one of the best young pitchers in the game.

Torpedo bats also continue to dominate the MLB conversation, and now you can find them in many local sporting goods stores.

And what to make of freshman Cooper Flagg and the disastrous collapse of the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA Final Four over the weekend?

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The New York Yankees made headlines this past weekend.

Not just with a complete dismantling of the pitiful Milwaukee Brewers, but with a barrage of home runs that some were attributing to the so-called "torpedo bat."

These odd-shaped bats have actually been around for awhile; in fact Giancarlo Stanton used one in 2024. A number of players used this in Spring Training this year, and players on other MLB teams (Francisco Lindor of the Mets for one) are trying them out in games.

Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill said over the weekend that if there was any funny business going on with the bats (hint - they are completely legal) that MLB will let it slide because it's the Yankees.

Congratulations, Mr. Megill. We're three games into the 2025 season and already the Yankees are in your head.

Also on this week's episode, N-I-L money continues to change the face of college athletics and it's on full display in both the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

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The Giants made some news with the recent signing of quarterback Jameis Winston. He's certainly an upgrade over Tommy DeVito at QB1, but given his career W-L record, how much can Giants fans really expect from Winston?

Everyone knows that you can never have enough pitching, and based upon some of what we've seen this spring, the Mets are Exhibit One. They used nine pitchers in Monday's Spring Training game against the Yankees, with mixed results.

Every MLB team has a tendency to overrate their prospects (the Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox especially), but the feeling here is that the Yankees made a critical mistake two years ago rushing Anthony Volpe to the majors. Based upon his minor league stats, the Red Sox are in serious danger of doing the exact same thing with the #7 MLB prospect in rookie Kristian Campbell.

Jim Monaghan and Chris Swendeman touch on all of that, plus Swendy has a rather unique idea on a pitcher the Yankees might want to take a look at.

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