Quote from website:

ESPN's "Outside the Lines" reviewed health department inspection reports for food and beverage outlets at all 107 North American arenas and stadiums that were home to Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball Association teams in 2009. At 30 of the venues (28 percent), more than half of the concession stands or restaurants had been cited for at least one "critical" or "major" health violation. Such violations pose a risk for foodborne illnesses that can make someone sick, or, in extreme cases, become fatal.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100725/stadiumconcessions

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Sunday 9 a.m. ET ESPN
Monday 3 p.m.

Chuck Stine was a Chicago area trumpet player. You can see him here playing herald trumpet fanfares at Wrigley Field for the Ryne Sandberg jersey retirement ceremony.

http://chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com/20...

He's the fellow next to the WGN tv camera.

He also played at the #31 jersey retirement ceremony at Wrigley for Jenkins and Maddux, and I think also the #10 ceremony for Ron Santo, the 300th win ceremony for Maddux and the Ernie Banks statue ceremony.

Quote from Chicago Tribune...

Photos from Wrigley Field Photos on May 3, 2009

Scenes outside Wrigley Field 2009
http://chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com/2010/02/scenes-outside-wrigley-field-2009.html

Unusual T-shirts, etc. at Wrigley Field 2009
http://chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com/2010/02/unusual-t-shirts-etc-at-wrigley-field.html

Watch this page for new photos
http://chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com

Do you appear in any of these photos? Let me know!

Diana

According to the Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmyer, Lou Piniella said he expects Andres Blanco and Sam Fuld to make the opening day roster. They would fill the 12th and 13th position player spots.

That would mean no Micah Hoffpauir or Kevin Millar or Chad Tracy. (Which is fine.)

In a follow up post on the Milton Bradley suspension, Bruce Miles states that the Cubs plan to call up outfielder Tyler Colvin for the Milwaukee series beginning Monday, which also means adding him to the 40-man roster.

Colvin was a surprise 1st round draft pick (13th overall) by the Cubs in 2006. A year later, Jim Hendry called him “untouchable” at the 2007 winter meetings.

Three months ago, it became apparent that if Milton Bradley did something to trigger the wrath of management, the players would not be there to stand behind him.

Yesterday came the something, which had obviously built up, in the form of comments from Bradley published by the Daily Herald (see also the follow up post by Bruce Miles).

“It's just not a positive environment. … It's just negativity.”

"And you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here, because it's negative."

Ryne Sandberg replacing Lou Piniella in Cubs' dugout next year?

Here's a recent quote from the Vineline Blog...

"While the Cubs were away in Hollywood, a little TV personality came to Wrigleyville.

And as she stood next to several Chicago firefighters while welcoming a crowd of several hundred, The Food Network's queen of convenient cooking, Rachael Ray, looked tiny! "

http://vineline.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/08/a_party_broke_out_today_in_wri.html

Interesting article on how they went about repairing the Cub's star third basemen's completely dislocated left shoulder in two months.

The article is much more interesting than the quote I'm sharing...

Ramirez underwent a specific program to accelerate his return.

"The first thing you have to do is reduce pain and inflammation," O'Neal said. "Until those are gone, you can't do any strengthening program because it hurts too much to do anything. So the first two or three weeks of his injury were pain and inflammation reduction."

To do that, intially lots of ice and rest and some pain meds. Anti-inflammatories were also prescribed.

MLB.com’s Carrie Muskat has many quotes from new Cubs hitting coach Von Joshua on the Cubs’ continuing struggles at the plate (2 runs in the past 2 games; 13th in the NL in runs per game).

Joshua blames the Cubs’ troubles on the hitters not “relaxing,” trying to “pull everything,” not making “adjustments” to the pitchers’ pitches, and “think[ing] they have to hit a home run every pitch.”

I think that about covers all the clichés, right?

(To be fair, there are some details in the article.)

Joshua also says, "I can't go hit for them." Which is a good thing, given that he’s a 61-year-old man who wasn’t all that good when he did play thirty years ago.