Rizzomania
Patience young Jedi...
Anthony Rizzo's career starts Tuesday night 7pm CST at Wrigley Field vs the NY Mets righty Dillon Gee. Rizzo was pulled after two at bats in today's Iowa Cubs 2-1 win vs. Round Rock, including a strikeout and a flyout to CF. He ends his Iowa career, barring a future demotion (God Forbid!), with the line: .342/23 HR/62 RBI.
The good news is I was able to sell the monday game vs the Mets but never put the tuesday game on Stubhub. Nothing more fun than to see a prodigal prospect in his first game.
Here are the confirmations:
Rizzo is coming. He'll join Cubs on Tuesday
The Chicago Cubs will call up top prospect Anthony Rizzo, and the slugging first baseman is expected to make his 2012 debut Tuesday against the New York Mets, according to a source. Rizzo was pulled from the Iowa Cubs game in the fourth inning on Monday and left the ballpark to make his way to Chicago. He won't be activated until Tuesday.
and here is the last Cub Rizzo-less lineup for hopefully quite some time (also per a Muskat tweet):
Johnson RF, Barney 2b, Castro ss, Soriano lf, Baker 1b, Soto c, Mather cf, Valbuena 3b, T. Wood p. No Rizzo yet
...and I don't know how Sveum will ever win another game vs lefty starters without his precious Jeff Baker at 1B. Oh, wait, they don't win with this lineup. The Cubs record this season vs LHP is 3-16.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and frost it and light it with RIZZO candles...
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The most un-shocking PED suspension ever
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 3:11pm Permalink
Ex #Cubs Marlon Byrd gets 50-game suspension after testing positive for performance enhancing substance
bump it up here...
drug was Tamoxifen, used in breast cancer treatment
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 3:18pm Permalink
Why is that un-shocking? I guess it sort of depends on when this test was administered, but he sure has achieved a whole new level of suck this year...
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:06pm Permalink
in hbo piece, marlon byrd famously refused to dump @victorconte as his trainer. this wont be good for business
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:19pm Permalink
I get the Conte connection, but what I don't get is how it is un-shocking that he only got caught when he started to REALLY suck...
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:25pm Permalink
It's not shocking that he is taking drugs to stop the spread of sucking.
It is shocking that he would take something that has potentially life threatening side effects.
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:34pm Permalink
it's probably more shocking how many "regular people" use estrogen blockers like it's nothing when they're trying to bulk.
i'm not sure what's more dangerous...the roids people take or the dozen other supplements they take to get that extra small edge out of it while cycling up/down.
at least this guy has a minimum wage of 400K on the line and a vet's pay for $1m+ if he can remain reed-johnson-level decent...not like it makes it better...just makes more sense.
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:35pm Permalink
plenty of shitty players caught using PED's as well as the HOF'ers.
lot of smoke around the Marlon Byrd fire the last few years was the gist of my comment
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 3:37pm Permalink
What a problem our manger has after tonight against lefties. Who do you sit out of Baker, Mather and Johnson? The first two have especially helped with our record against lefties. You don't suppose he would continue with those 3 and sit Rizzo? It wouldn't surprise me.
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 3:38pm Permalink
Byrd and Conte
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...
Tamoxifen puts a whole new twist on using those pink bats for mother's day
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:27pm Permalink
drug was Tamoxifen, used in breast cancer treatment
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Tamoxifen isn't used as a masking agent. Luteinizing Hormone is a female hormone which in women is a signal to initiate ovulation. In men...maybe that's the problem. Byrd is pregnant.
Byrd Brain's statement
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:42pm Permalink
“I made an inexcusable mistake. Several years ago, I had surgery for a condition that was private and unrelated to baseball. Last winter, I suffered a recurrence of that condition and I was provided with a medication that resulted in my positive test. Although that medication is on the banned list, I absolutely did not use it for performance enhancement reasons. I am mortified by my carelessness and I apologize to everyone who loves this game as I do. I will serve my suspension, continue to work hard and hope that I am given an opportunity to help a club win later this season.”
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:48pm Permalink
yeah...okay, sure, right, whatever.
hi, i'm a multi-millionaire...i got something that popped up and rather than going to see a doctor...or the team doctor...i'm going to self-medicate some years-old chemo meds.
make sense.
Re: Rizzomania
on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 4:55pm Permalink
Let's play the Guess which steroid game:
Glendon Rusch had cravings for ice cream and pickles
Re: Rizzomania
on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 3:33pm Permalink
Does the statement imply that a doctor was not invovled? He was "provided with a medication." Doctors usually do that kind of thing.
Re: Rizzomania
on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 4:14pm Permalink
"doctors" will also hand out medical marijuana cards to anyone claiming to have chronic back pain...even if it takes a little coaching to get the patient to say the magic words that can make that card possible.
and yeah, he claimed it was new meds rather than old meds...which makes it about as suspect as all those people who get "mentally ill" permits to bring their ratdogs on airplanes.
also, i think the mental health exemptions for ADD/anxiety/etc that lets MLB players take "legal speed" is about twice that of the normal population.
yeah, i don't got anything but speculation, but i feel comfortable implying he's being a fucktard based on how roiders use estrogen blockers...and how i doubt he needs chemo.