Gameday Open Thread/Cubs @ Padres and Day Old News

The Cubs travel to Peoria to play the San Diego Padres. Ryan Dempster and Jake Peavy will start. Here is the lineup from Muskat:

SS Ryan Theriot, 2B Aaron Miles, CF Reed Johnson, 1B Jake Fox, 3B
Fontenot, RF Doug Deeds, LF Richie Robnett, C Paul Bako, P Ryan
Dempster.

Carlos Marmol has changed his mind and will pitch in the World Baseball Classic for the Dominican Republic. Zambrano is still sitting out though.

Curt Schilling said if he does pitch this year, he would like it to be for either the Tampa Bay Rays or the Chicago Cubs. A Cubs source seems open to the idea.  Of course, I'm not sure if anyone has seen if he can still pitch.

Sam Fuld was named to Baseball America's All Winter League Team.

Thanks to the readers for the links.

Tags: 
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Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 1:13pm
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Submitted by Rob G.
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 2:20pm

Theriot single, Miles GIDP, Johnson grounds out

Submitted by springs
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 2:54pm

Theriot and Fox errors leading to runs for SD. Our defense may be suspect this year...Theriot/Fontenot are not that great up the middle, Bradley fields the DH position well, not sure how strong he'll be in RF.

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 3:10pm

Bruce Miles is reporting that the Cubs get Peavey if they win this game, and they don't if they lose.

Submitted by Wes
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 3:46pm

Golly, that Kevin Towers drives a hard bargain.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 5:30pm

http://twitter.com/cst_cubs

I assume this is Wittenmyer being funny...

1-2-3 second for Peavy. Padres said to be demanding Soto and Zambrano in 5 for 1 deal. Trying to confirm.

and

Another 1-2-3 for Peavy. Padres tell Cubs they can't afford him and to have a nice century.

and
http://muskat.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/03/sunday_...

Piniella is all for Schilling...

then makes some ridiculous comment about Koskie and comparing him to Josh Hamilton

Harden faced some hitters on Saturday

Submitted by crunch
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 5:46pm

phew...along with the 400ab miles statements and other crap it's nice to be able to get "news" like this without 100 posts picking apart the stupidity of a 60 year old fat man being out of touch with koskie's ability, bradley's injury handling, or having no control of his clubhouse because he can't field a volunteer team in vegas.

Submitted by Ryno
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 7:40pm

Ha... Piniella was clearly drunk.

Submitted by Fireball
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 6:27pm

Cripes, it's not even that old and I already fucking hate Twitter.

Submitted by crunch
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 6:33pm

it's really weird to hear steve stone call WSox games on TV.

CSN and MLB Network, btw...and it's over soon.

Submitted by crunch
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 7:47pm

sean casey immitating the batting styles of classic houston astros players #1.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 8:05pm

Rich Hill was supposed to start today for the Orioles but was scratched due to "elbow and forearm stiffness." The article in the Baltimore Sun mentions "back and shoulder issues" last season.

Back, shoulder, elbow, forearm--what else is there?

Submitted by Charlie
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 8:15pm

Knees and toes, my friend. Knees and toes.

Submitted by Mister Whipple
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 8:21pm

Ding!

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 11:15pm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-02-cubs-c...

But the Peavy-to-the-Cubs rumor won't die a natural death because the Padres still can't afford to keep his $63 million contract. Another rumor making the rounds is that Peavy's boss, San Diego Chief Executive Officer Sandy Alderson, may be in line for a similar role with the Cubs once Tom Ricketts takes control of the team. The Padres are in the process of being sold.

Alderson declined to comment when asked if he'd be interested in running the Cubs if Ricketts buys the team.

A baseball guy as president that has an affinity for stats...imagine that. Maybe Depodesta would come with him.

Submitted by Ryno
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 8:17am

You're such a tease.

Submitted by Mister Whipple
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 12:38pm

I don't like you anymore. You're a cruel individual.

Submitted by Newport
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:29am

The only thing positive about this game was that it was baseball and I got to watch it live. 90 degrees and sunny. Is anyone else having problems with tcr on an iPhone? As I was trying to check az phil's 40 man roster from the stadium, my iPhone kept crashing. Too many scrubs to keep up with. Jake Fox is lost at 1b. SD's guy that pitched the 9th was throwing some serious heat(Morales?). Fontenot wore # 81 and played 3b. Doug Deeds sucks too, but has a decent arm. SD's 1(Blankes?)is built like a tank, think NFL TE. Going again on Monday.

Submitted by crunch
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 2:25am

it's snowing here...screw u...i mean have fun.

seriously, ST...awesome. have fun.

Submitted by Cubster
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 6:20am

Total Consciousness, I've got that going for me, which is nice..
---
Notes: Padres RHP Mark Prior said he felt good Sunday, a day after his most recent bullpen session. Trying to rebound from shoulder surgery in June, Prior said he threw 55-60 pitches, "so obviously that's a good sign for endurance. It's coming. I think yesterday was probably one of the first days where I felt, 'OK, things are starting to kind of round into form a little bit,' so that was nice." Prior threw about six curveballs. "I'm feeling comfortable enough to throw that because obviously it takes some arm speed to throw the curveball," said Prior, who hasn't pitched in the big leagues since Aug. 10, 2006, with the Cubs. Black said it was a good sign that Prior is throwing breaking balls. "That'd be great if he could come back and be able to jump into our rotation," Black said

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9281954/Padres-...

Submitted by Ryno
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 8:16am

It would be a moral crime for Mark Prior to ever throw a single pitch to a Cubs batter in the regular or post season for the rest of his life.

Submitted by Jordan
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 12:36pm

I don't really like Mark Prior's politics, but I'm glad he's no longer a Cub.

Heh.

Submitted by Dr. aaron b
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 12:48pm

Not sure if this is related to anything but.......

Randy Bush hates black people!!!

Submitted by Rob G.
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:08pm

Pedroia MLB'09 ad...good stuff

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/p...

more viral videos at their website as well...

Submitted by Ryno
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:14pm

I have mine pre-ordered! I hope I receive it tomorrow, but it will probably be Wed or Thur.

Submitted by CPH2133
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:29pm

F'ing MLB 09 only on PS2/3. 2K9 is getting bad reviews and I have the 360.

Oh and MLB Front Office Manager blows, do not ever contemplate even renting it.

Submitted by Ryno
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:44pm

If you don't have a PS2 you ought to be able to get one really cheap by now.

Submitted by CPH2133
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:51pm

I own a PS2, but if I could have 2K9 for the 360 or MLB for the PS2 I don't know which I'd rather have.

I just wold prefer the graphics and all that jazz for the 360, and they usually cut the good features on the Ps2 version.

Submitted by Wes
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:49pm

Is 2K9 getting bad reviews? Saw the guy over at HJE thought it was pretty darn good. I don't tend to read any of the gaming sites reviews because I just don't take games as seriously as they do.

I'm probably going to get it either way, I guess. Baseball game I hate is better than no baseball game.

Submitted by CPH2133
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 1:51pm

I have read mix reviews about 2K9 but everything positive about The Show.

Submitted by SJS
on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 4:13pm

The last season of Triple Play was the best ever. Now baseball games have gone to shit, which is too bad. I guess EA is making an assload of $$ on Madden to not care about the baseball license. They certainly haven't cared about NCAA for a few years since they fail to update stadiums at the very least.

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