Cubs Weekend In Review
An incomplete list, in no particular order...
Bad Weekend
Jason Marquis. Though Lou Piniella apologized for "overreacting" to Marquis' comments following Saturday's game, the pitcher's "I have a family to worry about" statement made him look stupid and foolish and...like a modern-day Major Leaguer.
Alfonso Soriano. Broke the tip of this right middle finger on Sunday during a drill meant to hone his ability to catch balls up against the outfield wall. Expected to miss game action for the next five days.
Neal Cotts. Pitched two-thirds of an inning on Sunday and now has a 27.00 ERA. 'nuf said.
Geo Soto's waistline. I hope AZ Phil can confirm or refute this, but it appeared to me from Sunday's telecast that Soto has regained a lot of the weight he lost last year, when he had his big season in the Pacific Coast League and was so impressive in his limited debut with the big club.
Kerry Wood. Tagged for a longball by the Angels' Torii Hunger, plus two singles and a double in one-third of an inning on Saturday.
Good Weekend:
Matt Murton. Went 3-for-3 in Saturday's loss to the Angels.
Felix Pie. Knocked his second Cactus League home run on Sunday; hitting .273 in the early going.
Carrie Muskat groupies. Carrie got some air time during Sunday's telecast and revealed that she had business cards printed up in Japanese to help her establish rapport with Kosuke Fukudome. I'm wondering how many cards she had printed up and how many she'll have to give Fukudome before he finally replies, through his interpreter, "What am I supposed to do with all of these cards?"
Sam Zell. As this NYT profile makes clear, Sam has little chance of being the game's most odious owner as long as Hank Steinbrenner is around.
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Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:51am Permalink
Grrrr! Torii Hunger hit far! Famished for homers! Nom nom nom
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 10:28am Permalink
Hopefully Pie can keep hitting like this, having him get on base will give somebody for Soriano to drive in.
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 10:30am Permalink
I would move Muskrat up to the Bad column. While I didn't think it possible, her dry as toast air time actually made me lose even more respect for her. It was like right out of one of Molly Shannon's deadpan SNL news bits from years ago.
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:06am Permalink
I thought she sounded like a chick Napoleon Dynamite. Gosh Len, just eat the meat.
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:15pm Permalink
lol, yeah, that's pretty much a perfect description.
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:48pm Permalink
I don't know if you saw Carrie on TV yesterday but she nailed the Katherine Hepburn hair and look from "On Golden Pond".
Fielder is unhappy.
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:46pm Permalink
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3273757
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:58pm Permalink
More on the Roberts trade situation...looks like the O's are getting serious again, but no indication on when a possible deal would get done. Mentions again the possibility of getting Jay Payton along with Roberts.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb...
Re: Cubs Weekend In Review
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:14pm Permalink
So the real question now is "Who would you be willing to give up to keep the O's from sending over Payton?"
Las Vegas Cubs games
on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:09pm Permalink
Don't know if anyone cares, but tickets for the Cubs last two Spring Training games vs. Mariners in Las Vegas go on sale through Ticketmaster in about an hour. Didn't get to go to Phoenix this year so this is my substitute. Crazy as it is, a guy from the minor league team there that runs the promotion said that last year they sold the two games out in about 30 minutes.