Carlos Lee is listed as being 6’2 and 240 pounds. Which means he’s about 6’0 and 265. So it was nice that he felt that the only way he could break up a double play yesterday was to give Todd Walker a leg whip. Right after he did it, Lee was the one who looked injured. Turns out, he wasn’t.
Walker looked no worse for wear. Turned out, he was. He ended up having to leave the game at the end of the inning, as his knee began to hurt and his range at second went from none to less than none.
The Cubs will find out today the extent of Todd’s injury, but since this is the Cubs, we can save them the time and trouble and just tell you that Todd will need surgery and be out for the rest of the season. See, sometimes the Cubs inevitable luck comes in handy.
The Cubs say the best case scenario for Walker is a 15 day DL stint, so regardless of whether today’s news is “good” or not, he’s going to be out a while. The Cubs are used to replacing second basemen. They employed Mark Grudl;jkljlj;kj for two years and he was always hurt.
Jerry Hairston Jr. will get the bulk of the time at second. In fact, Jerry should get all of it. It’s bad enough if Neifi Perez gets a start at second base, but if Dusty reaches into his magic bag and pulls out Jose Macias for a start…well, let’s not think about that.
The Cubs managed to come back from a 5-2 deficit to beat the Brewers in 12 innings. The Cubs’ approach to extra innings is interesting. They seem to think that the only way you can win an extra inning game is to hit a home run. Every guy just stands up there and flails away, swinging from his ass like he’s doing his Sammy Sosa impersonation. It never gets old. Oh, no it’s great stuff. It’s right up there with a Gallagher Two concert marathon. Whee!
Carrottop of all people said that there’s a joke comedians use to mock Gallagher Two. If you’re not sure who Gallagher Two is, well, he’s the brother of the original Gallagher, the pumpkin smashing prop comic. The original Gallagher sold his act to his brother and they both tour separately. Great?
Anyway, the joke supposedly is, “Gallagher Two, audience zero.” Pretty good. Especially from Carrottop.
How the hell did we get on that?
The Cubs are 3-3 after six games with the Diamondbacks and Brewers. Kind of makes you wonder what their record would be if they had played actual Major League teams the first week.
The Padres are in town starting today for three straight 1:20 p.m. starts. We’ll have a CubsLive! game cast for each and every one. I know…you’re thrilled. Try and contain yourselves.
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The Bulls win on Saturday night clinched a playoff spot for them, something we’ve been taking for granted for almost 20 years. From ’86-’98 we took it for granted they’d be in them, and from ’99 to now we took it for granted they wouldn’t.
Since their horrific 0-9 start, the Bulls are a startling 44-23, the best record in the Eastern Conference. They’ve been fun to watch, even if they’ve suffered enough injuries to make even the 2004 Cubs feel lucky by comparison.
They’re winning now (12 of 13) with Eddy Curry out until specialists can determine if he has a heart and without their most reliable player, Luol Deng. Ben Gordon, their most spectacular player, isn’t playing particularly well. They lost Othella Harrington for a couple games because Othella found out the hard way that when your wife is having a baby, she thinks she’s the only one who’s ever had a baby and you damn well better not go to work. In an effort to get some attention, Tyson Chandler poked himself in the eye and then got 21 rebounds in a game. Here’s a tip for Tyson, skip the eye poking, stick with the rebounding. Even always dependable Kirk Hinrich (or as they call him on Comcast Sports Net – Kurt Henrick), has been hobbling around on one leg. So how do they keep winning?
Honestly, nobody knows.
Not even Scott Skiles, who shouldn’t win the NBA Coach of the Year award for this effort. No, he should be named NBA Coach of the Millennium and dipped in bronze. As respected NBA journalist Kelly Dwyer said on the Internet’s finest message board, “No team this young has been this good. Unprecedented stuff going on here.”
In fact, Kelly wrote a whole column about it over on Spanish-yes.com. (And yes, I know that the Spanish-yes.com reference has been both confusing and overplayed…and frankly, I don’t care). The best line in Kelly’s column is this one.
Thanks to a steady, suffocating defense Skiles has crafted from three rookies, a sophomore guard, two 22-year old “vets,” assorted castaways and a 25-year old Argentinean who likes to push people, Chicago is able to overcome its Jekyll and Hyde offense.
But go read the article. The more people who read Kelly the better. It will encourage Sports Illustrated to let him write more, and maybe it will encourage them to run over Lang Whittaker with a garbage truck.
I’ll be Walkers home for 4-6 weeks.
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See you next year.
..and I’m all for anything that allows someone to run Lang Whittaker aka Whit Eboy over with a garbage truck.
My knee’s fucked up AND I’m a moron?
Love you too, Dolan.
I believe it’s Desipio’s way of labeling a second straight link to the same subject.
Pretty sensitive though, eh, Todd?
Uh, I was the one on deck in the 12th.
How come the Zambrano quote about wanting to kill the umpire didn’t make “resent the inference”
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-050408cubsbits,1,4675200.story?coll=cs-cubs-headlines
I am sensitive. My goddamn knee fucking kills!
Kelly Dwyer is hot.
Andy, can you track down the ISP of the above poster, immediately?
Wait till you find out the ISP belongs to the Sloth.
So I intentionally walk the right-hand hitting Lee so my right-handed pitcher can face the left-hand hitting Hollandsworth?
Even if I was shooting for a double play with Hollandsworth, why did I then bring the infield in for Hollandsworth’s at-bat?
Usually it’s Dusty outsmarting himself (like maneuvering Friday’s double-switch so that Nomar watched the last three innings from the bench), but Cubs fans–this one’s on me. You’re welcome.
Who you callin’ gorillas, dwyer?
I bought Wojo’s book yesterday and got through a couple of chapters last night. I hate the title “Cubs Nation”, which sounds like something some dumb ass from St. louis would be proud of. So far, it’s OK.
In the later part of last season, I put the Steelers of this year in the same class as the 85′ Bears. I am a fat retard.
I support Kelly Dwyer in his journalistic endeavors and think of him as a talented scribe.
Too bad it had to be the NBA, though.
Dude, I double-switched Nomar out Friday because his bat is slow. That B.C. dude said it so it must be true, dude.
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