It's too bad that the Cubs are the only team in baseball to not develop players capable of playing 1B. If we would we wouldn't have to play veterans we have no intention of keeping while the team is 20 games under .500 man, that is just utterly ridiculous. put mabry at first, call up hoffpauir, give a turtle a glove and put him at 1b, whatever. who the hell cares whether the cubs' 1b hits .240 or .220 the rest of the way? this is the same logic that's going to "force" the cubs to keep maddux, thus squeezing guzman/hill out of the rotation when marshall and marmol comes back. i've never seen a team pride itself so much on trying to maintain a .380 winning percentage. pathetic isn't it