Cubnut at The Cub Reporter is worried about the Milwaukee Brewers' signing of Mike Cameron:

This is bad news for the Cubs in a couple respects. First, Cameron is a talented player. Second, his signing will allow the Brewers to move the big hitting but defensively inferior Bill Hall back to the infield, where he will take over for Ryan Braun at third. Braun, a defensively inferior third baseman–25 errors and a fielding percentage of .895(!!!) in ‘07–will then be able to move to left.

Baseball Musings makes the same point about the Brewers' improved defense. While true enough, Cameron is also now 35 and is coming off a year in which he hit .242 / .328 / .431, while playing average defense in centerfield, according to Baseball Prospectus. Plus, Cameron must serve a 25 game suspension to start the year under baseball's drug-testing program.

If we could all Jacobs Field "The Jake," can we now call Progressive Field "The Prog"?

Chad Fox is back with the Chicago Cubs after they signed him to a minor league contract on Friday, reports the AP. In April 2005, Fox went from being the Cubs' possible new closer (after another LaTroy Hawkins blown save) to a "career-ending injury" in matter of two days. Given this comeback attempt, Fox is trying to show that the injury was not, in fact, career-ending.

Not a lot of baseball right now, so how about a trip to a museum or two???

Museum of Science and Industry

The museum will open at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and offer free general admission for the rest of the month.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-nomuseum_both_11jan11,1,2092843.story

http://www.msichicago.org/info/admission/prices.html

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Shedd Aquarium
Discount week, Jan. 12 to 18

Take advantage of discount week at Shedd Aquarium.

Visit between Jan. 12 and 18, and your general admission is free.

http://www.sheddaquarium.org

I heard about this on the WGN Noon news.

http://wgntv.trb.com/

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