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Posted in Baseball, Retired, Transactions on Aug 22nd, 2010
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella had said a while ago that this would be his last season. After 2010, he was retiring. But, due to the declining health of his mother, Piniella had to cut it short. Sadly, he announced that today would be his last game and that he’s done after this. “Lou announces [...]
Posted in Baseball on Aug 18th, 2010
Down the stretch run, the Philadelphia Phillies acquired Roy Oswalt to help them get back in the race for the NL East title. Combine that with getting Chase Utley and Ryan Howard back, and the Atlanta Braves losing Chipper Jones, and it looked like the division was theirs for the taking. But not so fast. [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 26th, 2010
The Chicago Cubs are 10 games back in the NL Central and it’s probably safe to say that they won’t be making the playoffs. And it’s not too tough to imagine that they’d prefer to get something for 34-year old Derrek Lee before he leaves via free agency at the end of the year. But, [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 20th, 2010
The New York Daily News has learned that former New York Yankees manager and current Chicago Cubs manager will retire at the end of the 2010 season. The 67-year old Piniella has endured two rough seasons after taking the club to the playoffs in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The disappointing Cubs are probably a [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 9th, 2010
Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets that the New York Mets are turning their attention to Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly. “#Mets now turn strongly to Lilly because #Astros still want too much and will pay too little of Oswalt’s contract,” Sherman tweets. As Sherman correctly points out, the Houston Astros are asking [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 28th, 2010
Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano is looking more and more like a certifiable nutjob. His explosion in the dugout Friday, which was directed at his teammates for not playing well enough behind him (there is no evidence that they screwed up in that four-run first inning), earned him a suspension. His people claim that he [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 27th, 2010
Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano was suspended for his blowup in the team dugout on Friday. No one seemed to appreciate being yelled at after they gave up four runs in the first inning to the Chicago White Sox. But, a source tells the Chicago Sun-Times that it was all an episode of “Three’s Company.” [...]
Posted in Baseball, Popping Off on Jun 27th, 2010
The Chicago Cubs must be having a lot of fun with Carlos Zambrano this year. First, he stunk up the joint as a starter and had to be sent to the bullpen. Then they brought him back as a starter, where he decided to unload on his teammates. On Friday, Zambrano gave up four runs [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 2nd, 2010
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella tells ESPNChicago.com that he will use Carlos Zambrano as a backup closer to Carlos Marmol when Marmol needs a break. Usually, Marmol can go three days in a row, but he pitched Friday night and then chucked 35 pitches on Saturday, so he might need to sit on Sunday. Zambrano [...]
Posted in Baseball on Apr 21st, 2010
Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano, who is off to a bad start this season, is being moved to the bullpen, according to a Paul Sullivan tweet. In Sullivan’s brief, but solid tweet, he insures fans that Z is “cool with the move,” as only Paul Sullivan would. Zambrano is currently hitting .000 with eight at-bats [...]
Chicago Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano made his long-awaited arrival today and raised more than a few questions about his status for 2010. He says that his surgically repaired left knee is “maybe 80 percent or 85 percent.” ***slides Soriano down fantasy baseball draft board*** But, he didn’t stop there. If you were expecting a big [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jan 21st, 2010
Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto has dropped 40 lbs this offseason and gone from a size 42 waste down to a 36. “I felt I needed to do something, I felt I needed to go to the next level,” said Soto, who was listed at 230 pounds. “I felt I needed to show my teammates [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jan 12th, 2010
The Chicago Cubs are reportedly going to make a run for free-agent pitcher Ben Sheets. Hopefully, Sheets will not try to make a run at anything or he might pull a hamstring, twist an ankle, or get a blister. In his eight-year career, all with the Milwaukee Brewers, Sheets has had problems with bulging discs [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jan 11th, 2010
This is not safe for work. And if you have a three-year old on your lap while you are on the internet, playing this video is a bad idea here as well. But if you aren’t at work and don’t have a three-year old on your lap at work, then this is a great video [...]
We’ve posted this numerous times on OTR, but it doesn’t get old. No, it’s not safe for work…….that is…….unless you work in a brothel. In that case, the contents of this video might not be that offensive. Lee Elia’s occasional swearing and harsh tones are probably nothing compared to the daily grind of the dark [...]
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