{"id":205318,"date":"2026-04-27T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205318"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:34:27","slug":"random-thoughts-baseball-and-more-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/random-thoughts-baseball-and-more-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: baseball and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s installment of Random Thoughts includes congratulations, teams in first, a quick firing, a college quarterback entering rehab, and a draft that looks good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belated congrats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Lincolnview\u2019s Lainey Spear for becoming the school\u2019s new softball record holder for career RBIs. She has 146 and counting, surpassing the previous record of 145 held by former standout Destiny Coil. Earlier this season \u2013 Game No. 2 to be exact \u2013 she broke the school\u2019s career home run record, which was 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Lincolnview head coach Eric Schwab hit 100 career wins. Also last week, Ila Hughes surpassed 300 career strikeouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far so good<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course it\u2019s very early in the Major League Baseball season but if you\u2019re a Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs or Cleveland Guardians fan, there\u2019s some good news. As of Monday, the Reds were alone in first in the NL Central division, with the Cubs just a game behind. The Guardians were a game behind first place Detroit in the AL Central division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That didn\u2019t take long<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have you done for me lately? For Alex Cora, not enough for the Boston Red Sox, who fired him on Saturday, just 27 games into the season. Boston was 10-17 at the time. He wasn\u2019t the only one to be shown the door \u2013 five members of his coaching staff were given the boot as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cora won the 2018 World Series, then was fired by the Red Sox in 2020 in connection with the sign stealing scandal. He was brought back the following season but has had just two winning seasons since then \u2013 2021 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his struggles, he\u2019ll mostly likely be a highly sought after hire in the offseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Not good<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Indiana and Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who transferred to Texas Tech and was expected to be one of the top quarterbacks in college football this fall is entering treatment for a gambling addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information has come out that he bet on Indiana games during his freshman season at Indiana in 2022. He reportedly bet on the Hoosiers to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His college career is almost certainly done now, as the NCAA has no tolerance for college athletes betting on their games. Unfortunately for Sorsby, the NFL doesn\u2019t take very kindly to it either. He may eventually sign with a pro team but it would almost certainly be as an undrafted free agent and after a suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFL draft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course we really won\u2019t know for at least a couple of seasons but as a Cleveland Browns fan, it appears as though the Browns drafted well for the second consecutive year. It looks great on paper but the results on the field will tell the true story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, if you have thoughts or questions on any of the above topics, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports This week\u2019s installment of Random Thoughts includes congratulations, teams in first, a quick firing, a college quarterback entering rehab, and a draft that looks good. Belated congrats Congratulations to Lincolnview\u2019s Lainey Spear for becoming the school\u2019s new softball record holder for career RBIs. She has 146 and counting, surpassing the previous record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:23:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205319,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205318\/revisions\/205319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}