Gabor update: Time to call Bekins

Mar 30, 2009 | Andy | 12 comments

According to my good friend Bruce Miles it appears as though there will be no redux of the Gabor Bako era for the Cubs.

The Cubs decided they were happy with the old bums they already had and didn’t need two new ones, so Bako and Mike Stanton were both sent packing.

Gabor’s departure gives the backup catcher’s job to Koyie Dolan Hill, and means Neal Cotts won’t have to share the lefthanded hair dryer with anybody else in the bullpen.

Bako took the news like a champ, calmly filling his travel bag with HoHoKam towels, three boxes of gum and one of Yosh’s old hats.

In her report over on cubs.com, Carrie decided that the true story of Koyie cutting off three fingers and part of his thumb with a table saw wasn’t dramatic enough:

He spent the majority of last season at Triple-A Iowa, coming back from a horrific hand injury suffered after the 2007 season in which he severed three of his fingers with a chain saw.

A chain saw?  He’s not a barbarian, Carrie.

OK, that’s enough with the breaking news, now get back to reading the Desipio 2009 American League preview.

12 Comments

  1. Chuck
    Chuck on March 30, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    You’d think after cutting off one finger something in his brain would have said, “STOP!”

  2. Stihl
    Stihl on March 30, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Uh Chuck, our chainsaws are a little faster than you think.

  3. Cubbiebluestew
    Cubbiebluestew on March 30, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Guess who doesn’t have a workshop in his garage.

  4. Overcome with Joy!
    Overcome with Joy! on March 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    No Zha Zha!
    No Zha Zha!
    No Zha Zha!

  5. Who cares?
    Who cares? on March 30, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Does anyone care?

  6. Rawlings baseballs
    Rawlings baseballs on March 30, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Hate to see Gabor go. Things were pretty safe for us with him at bat.

  7. Mendoza line
    Mendoza line on March 30, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    I also hate to see him go.

  8. Ken Harrelson
    Ken Harrelson on March 30, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    He gone

  9. BBM
    BBM on March 31, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Give Carrie a break she was just having a flashback to when she was a groupie for Jackyl.

  10. Forthman Murff
    Forthman Murff on March 31, 2009 at 12:39 am

    You can’t blame the woman for thinking of me.

  11. Andy's Keyboard
    Andy's Keyboard on March 31, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    I know whose fingers I wish would meet a saw…

  12. Bob Loblaw
    Bob Loblaw on March 31, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Baxter? Is that you? Bark two times if you are in Milwaukee…milk was a baaaad choice.