Seabiscuit’s Jockey traces Prior’s injury back to a day golfing with Dan Patrick. OK, maybe not.
Dr. Larry Rothschild says that maybe Prior’s arm will hurt like this every spring. Hey, great?
You think we had it bad having to watch the 2004 Cubs collapse? Gene Wojciechowski lived it. Gene’s good, this book should be entertaining. It has to be better than the piece of feces HG Bissinger wrote with Tony LaRussa.
The Bissinger book takes place in an August series between the Cubs and Cards in 2003. How great would it have been if he’d have waited a week and done the five gamer when the Cubs impaled the Cardinals’ playoff hopes? Oh, well.
Now here’s a good looking bunch.
Your daily Dee Brown tooth update: he had a root canal. Things will be fine. Phew.
Bruce Weber’s hanging in there.
Groucho wonders why Ben Gordon doesn’t start.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to paint the sunny picture that the Cubs will never win anything with Wood and Prior. Hey, thanks!
Brian Hanley’s bracket is…hilarious.
The Wizard of Roz with…among other things…meteorologist Sammy P. Sosa.
Jim Caple can never pull off funny, but you admire the effort as he’s going to spend the next three weeks living on college campuses. He started at #1 Illinois. Why go anywhere else?
Underwear supermodel Len Pasquarelli says that the Arizona Cardinals will play the Niners in Mexico next season. Man, the combination of Mexican food and bad football will have everybody crapping like Rashard McCants.
Peter King’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback, or whatever.
Some hack named Kelly Dwyer thinks the Rockets are NBA title contenders. Jeesh, where do they find these guys? Oh, wait…never mind.
The Giants are going to give a front office job to whoever wins their fantasy league. And you thought the only talentless jackass ever to win a job on a game show was Mike Hall.
Steve Trachsel might need back surgery. I’m sure this is Dusty’s fault.
Kevin Millar’s not just an assclown, he’s a fat one.
You have to watch this month’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Not only is there a hilariously uncomfortable feature on Doug Christie and his “wife”, but at the end, Bryant goes off on the Congressional steroid hearings and says that the only reason for them to be held is so that members of Congress can feed their insatiable appetite for self-promotion and attention, “just like Curt Schilling.” I loved it. I tried to high five Bryant through the TV when he said it. And I don’t even like him.
The Daily News says former Geraldo flunky Diane Diamond has been helping gather evidence for the Michael Jackson case prosecutors.
If he stood in it, doesn’t it mean it was a moonroof?
He would have gotten away with it except he kept saying, “Ooh, you’re a spitter.”
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I told them! I specifically said, “Woodie, Mark…look, if you stop taking me, you’re going to have all sorts of problems.” Did they listen? No.
Of course, I still haven’t ruled out the possibility that these two jokers are just collossal wusses.
Hey lets see if they fall for this again!! Prior will only miss a spring training start and begin the regular season on time, while Wood is actually fine he’s just not taking any chances in spring training games.
MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I know why tigers eat their young…
Not only was I an insufferable Jackass, but now I’m a fat insufferable Jackass!
Is it bad it’s only March and I’m rolling my eyes at this?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7185700/
Wow, was that a bad piece.
“There are only two current players, third baseman Aramis Ramirez and pitcher Kerry Wood, who were on the field in 2003 when the Cubs came within five outs of the National League championship. That’s the game in which Cubs fan Steve Bartman snagged the foul fly ball from outfielder Alou before shortstop Alex Gonzalez booted the double play grounder to precipitate the meltdown.”
He couldn’t even be bothered to get the right pitcher for the Bartman game.
No Prior, no Wood. Sammy and Moises, where you at? Welcome to fourth place, Cubbies.
I am looking forward to reading both of the upcoming books Andy mentions in today’s Dose. The Wojo book on the Cubs could shed some more light on the 2004 Cubs disaster, while the “3 Nights in August” could provide further fodder for our bashing of The Genius.
Life is just a fantasy, can you live the fantasy life?
Aldo Nova?
Can’t you see… what this crazy life is doin’ to me…
It is all my fault. The whole deal in middle east, it is my fault dude. The whole Iraq mess, it is my fauly dude. Anything that happens in the world, it is my fault dude.
Dusty Baker: Who’s gonna be our #5 starter?
Larry Rothschild: Well, Sonja Henie’s out. We’ll take Danny Noonan
The SKY is falling!
Dolan,
You put it well regarding Wood and Prior. I also agree with Steve Stone(minus the car salesman comment). Wood just is a thrower that wants to strikeout guys. That is not the goal all the time. The goal is to throw the least amount of pitches you can to get three outs in an inning. Not throw as many pitches as you can (no matter how many wild pitches, hit batsmen, or walks) just to strikeout the side. Until Wood understands that philosophy, and change his mechanics, he might as well start searching for that car salesman job.
Prior has had a bad example in Wood to follow with all this injury stuff. I think it is a mental thing with him. The Cub organization really has been baited into this mind set of his bad injury history. As an organization, they should be looking at this as a short time deal. Just throw the guy and get the most out of him as you can and be done with it. As an organization you should looking for one World Series in 100 years. The organization acts like if we can keep these young pitchers healthy we could start a dynasty or something. WAKE UP, YOU ARE DREAMING.
They need to cross these guys off as to making a big contribution ever. This whining around about this injury stuff is a constant with these two. Go to Plan B with whatever rejects you can throw out there and hope for the best. At least these guys actually will want to pitch and not bitch about it.
Sincerely,
Mark and Kerry’s Cryer Club Basher
For the record, I still think Prior’s going to be a multiple Cy Young award winner. I have a hunch we’ll look back and say two things…
a) Hey, remember at the start of his career he was hurt a lot?
b) Hey, remember when he used to pitch for the Cubs?
Hey, remember when Aldo Nova was on every 45 minutes on WMET, the Mighty ‘met, I think it was 94.7, the pre-cursor of WLS-FM and the Zone.
Basher, those were excellent points.
Now please go back to your bunk. Nap time’s not over.
Correction: 95.5, back when they usedta say ’95 and a half’, so it was the pre-cursor to, gulp, smooth jazz.
Hey dude whats the pool password for the tourney?
Moran
Geez, I step away for a second, and everyone’s talking about Cousin Aldo?
Fear the Meat Tray!!!
Mark Prior is 21st century speak for Sandy Koufax (minus the jewishness and left handedness).
Don’t forget my homosexuality. But then, take away my jewishness, lefthandedness and homosexuality, and I could be any one of you. Except Chuck…
I’m right handed, can’t pitch, have three kids and can only be found in a synogogue about 3 times a year.
So, you got me cold, Sandy.
Hey, I’m not a Jew, and I’m not lefthanded! So, um, what was the question?
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