The bad news is that Mark Bradley tore his ACL on Sunday. The good news is that he only tore a third of the ligaments that Daunte Culpepper did.
Lovie was happy to see Cedric Benson break off a couple of good runs on Sunday. Well, I’d kind of hope so.
The Jockey with five pointless things to watch for in the Cubs’ 2006 schedule.
He leaves out the fact that the Cubs play 16 games in September and October against teams not in the NL Central while they play 13 against teams in the Central and none against the last two NL pennant winners.
They finish up with the Satanic Fowl on August 27.
Groucho on opening night in the NBA. Hey, that’s tonight! Over at On-Hoops.com we’ll have the Western Conference scouting reports up this afternoon. The Eastern ones will go up tomorrow just in time for the Bulls’ opener.
Scott Skiles is starting to feel comfortable in Chicago. His players never seem quite comfortable playing for him, though. Which is a good thing.
Michael Jordan lackey Tim Grover claims he never gave Eddy Curry the heart exploding drug Ephedra.
Quick, raise your hand if you remembered that Matt Doherty got a new coaching job! I’d forgotten, too.
What does it say about me that when I saw that Notre Dame had signed Charlie Weis to a 10-year contract extension that it sounded to me like a lifetime contract for the corpulent coach?
Deadspin has news about one of those pansy anonymous bloggers who has finally come clean. He’s Jason Fry of the “Faith and Fear” Mets’ blog. This is the part I found interesting.
Despite that, I was stunned when one of the Mets’ broadcasters wrote to our Gmail address, irate over a passing comment on the blog. He’d taken the remark out of context, and Greg struck up a friendly correspondence with him, but it was a helpful reminder that while we could say whatever we wanted, we’d better be prepared to answer for it.
Deadspin wonders if it’s Tom Seaver, but we know it’s our old buddy Dave O’Brien. Dave’s written here enough over the years to prove he’ll read anything.
Ken Rosenthal tries to figure out where Theo will end up. Among his guesses is the Cubs, but only if Hendry’s surging cholesterol catches up with him.
America’s finest news source points out some improvements Notre Dame is making to its storied football legacy.
“Other than those two there’s Matt Morris (oh God no) and Scott Elarton (pass) and pretty much nobody. Yikes.”
What’s your take on Washburn?
Chris Washburn? Can he even pass the drug test?
I thought Jarrod Washburn had the avian flu.
I thought Jerrod Washburn was black…
We’ll never get Chris Washburn. Maybe Avie Lester is available though.
Can he pass a drug test? Dunno. I dunno if he can even swallow the drug test.
1. Finish in 4th place in your division, below .500.
2. Bring back all the stiffs that helped get you there.
3. Rinse and repeat.
Check me out, just try not to pull a muscle laughing…and people think we’re nuts.
#7, nuts is one thing. Those people are living in a fantasy world.
Knock knock. The cubs still have at least 3, maybe 4 undecided positions.
I don’t think we’ll have to worry about throwing the same team out there.
Awesome, let’s offer them Patterson for Manny before they can work out the Bagwell deal.
As an Astros fan, I’m embarrassed to see nonsense like that. That goes hand-in-hand with the “proposed trade” calls our local radio boys field on a regular basis:
Caller: “Uh, yeah. I wanted to propose a trade. How about Jeff Bagwell, Tim Redding, and Brandon Duckworth for Johan Santana?”
Host: “Great idea, except… why would the Twins agree to that trade?”
The proposed trades always seem to be a great idea, as they (a) unload horrendous contracts for us, (b) get rid of losers that clog our 40-man roster, and (c) pick up young superstars with relatively cheap contracts. It really is a shame that, for these trades to go down, the opposing team’s GM would have to be smoking crack to actually AGREE to the deal. These types of fans would be excluded from the ballpark if the Astros listened to my request for a “baseball IQ” screening test at the gates.
Sammy’s a free agent, let’s bring him back! We need a gladiator on this team. The only time the Cubs made the playoffs the last 15 years, The Gladiator was at the helm. I’m just sayin’…
And after we sign him, let’s trade him for Manny Ramirez!
I see your point, but if MLB gave a baseball IQ test at the gate, it would be huge to draw 1 million fans a year. My favorite is the guy who has Furcal, Dunn, and Giles going to the Stros, it’s in a different thread though.
I couldn’t believe when Matt Doherty signed at FAU. He is going to turn this program around, and as a FAU student, really excited to have him here.
I have DePodesta getting axed in LA, as well as Theo out in Boston. Also, Manny to the Astros. Does anyone else have these on their radar?
Hey mang, I’m available.
For a day of bad ‘Rusch’ puns, a reference to Geddy Lee or Neal Peart couldn’t have been included?
I’m surprised we got Glendon for that cheap of a raise. I thought he would’ve been good for $3.5 elsewhere.
“He gave up on the bullpen by committee idea after a disaster in 2003”. Say Andy, all bullpens are by committee. The term should be “closer by committee”. Unless you have a one man bullpen – like the Dodgers when they had Mike Marshall (the pitcher not the first baseman).
It’s sports related too.
Ah, screw it, link doesn’t work, don’t click on me.