Category: Cubs News & Notes
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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."
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.
14.4% of the way through $30 million, the Cubs are turning against Milton Bradley (.237/.355/.379 through 70 team games). In the sixth inning of today’s win, Lou Piniella told him to take his uniform off and go home after Bradley started throwing water around in the dugout after Bradley made his third out of the game. Piniella says he will start Bradley tomorrow, but Alfonso Soriano—at least—says that if Bradley does not care about the team, he can stay home:
We may no longer be able to hang our hat on the fact that the greatest player in Chicago Cubs history never actually tested postiive for performance enhancing drugs. The New York Times reported today:
Quote:
Sammy Sosa ... is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.
....
The lawyers who had knowledge of Sosa’s inclusion on the 2003 list did not know the substance for which Sosa tested positive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified as discussing material that is sealed by a court order.
This is not exactly definitive.
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