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Has he said anything either way on whether he has interest in becoming a pitching coach when he retires from the game?

What is a Punch and Judy player? I have an idea, but I'm not completely sure.

If we play .500 ball the rest of the way I'll be surprised.

I had a manager like this when I was working part time in college. He posted some stupid new policy, I don't recall what it was, in the employee lounge. I took it down, corrected all of his mistakes with a red pen and gave it a grade like a teacher would with an elementary school student, and put it back up. Needless to say, I gave him an F. Someone ratted me out, I got called into my managers office and was written up. I thought real hard about pulling the red pen out again while I was getting written up, but I couldn't afford to go a week without work at the time while I looked for another job. I was the hero of the store to the other employees for the next month. The "liminade" part I corrected. I think I'm going to edit the email the next time I work. It's right by the weekly schedule so everytime I check when I work I have to see this email and it really bugs me. I work tomorrow night so I'll do it then. I'll definately take your advice on giving it a grade also. Just to give you an update, I corrected and graded the email and I gave him an F-. I did it while I was on my break and posted it back up on the board. I can't wait for the head manager to come in on Monday and read it.

Anytime there is an injury to a key player, management will continue to use it as an excuse. They are completely unable to place blame on anybody. It's either injuries, or bad luck, or a good idea that wasn't executed correctly. Nobody accepts blame for this and it's infuriating. It's like they just pretend nothing bad happened and just went about their business.

White Sox 0 Cubs -2 The White Sox become the first team to win a nine inning game and not score any runs. I'll let you use your imaginations on how the Cubs scored negative runs.

I don't think it would matter that much. Even if we go on a winning streak while Dusty's gone, the team will just chalk it up to luck, Dusty will come back, and the team will continue to lose.

Game over. Rusch is in.

Good call eh?

And the offensive explosion is about to begin. I'm calling a double for Konerko.

Glass half full. Shouldn't Ozzie be calling for a sac bunt here, you know, to maximize chances of scoring a run? Definately.

Neifi, Rusch, Bynum, Womack

That could be one of the quickest innings I have ever seen.

What happened in that half inning? I missed it because I blinked. Can somebody give me a recap?

I would definately be in support of Z batting for himself and probably Maddux as well.

It's always nice to come back from class and see the Cubs winning. But it's not nice to see the Cubs give away the lead right when I get back.

Sit down Thome.

I can see the headlines already: "Cubs and White Sox Fans United". At least they'll agree on something - the Cubs suck.

This is absolutely pathetic. I could see management getting angry if a beat writer was criticizing the team for no apparent reason. But with the way this team is playing right now, there isn't any reason at all to compliment the organization. Going off on a beat writer for doing his job and uncalled for. I would be embarrassed if I was Andy MacPhail and Jim Hendry right now and I'm glad Sneed reported ths incident. Don't those two idiots (MacPhail and Hendry) know that if you want good press you have to do something good with the team. Right now it seems like they are trying to run the organization into the ground. I know that some of the offseason signings ticked some people off here but the problems run far deeper than that. I would be happy if that was the only problem here. But it's the whole philosophy of the organization that is the issue. It's like they don't seem to care at all. The only excuse they use is bad luck. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS!! Is it that hard to blame somebody? You don't have to do it through the media, do it on the field. I think people will get the point if they see Neifi not playing at all - this includes pinch hitting - for a couple days. Don't start Jacque Jones for a couple days after he makes a baserunning error. If people don't seem like they are trying SIT THEM ON THE BENCH. It's not hard to do. At this point, I don't care if it costs the team a game or two or the whole season, but a point needs to be made. Sometimes you need to sacrifice something to achieve a greater goal. I'm not going to quit on the Cubs because they're my team, although I can easily see how some people might. We can only hope that something changes and changes quick. Although I get the feeling that's not going to happen.

That's the best news I've heard all day. I can only hope that when I tune in to MLB.TV on Sunday that they give me the CSN feed so I get Len and Bob. For those who have MLB.TV, is there any way to choose which feed you get?

Anybody know who is tenetively scheduled to pitch for the Iowa Cubs next Thursday May 25 against the Sacramento RiverCats? I'm going to the game and wondering who I might have the privaledge of seeing.

And that's why I don't think I'm even going to watch this game. Its soft tossing mediocre lefties that we can't hit. The good lefties we dont have as many problems with.... I hope you're right. I would like nothing more than to see the Cubs rough up Who Is Mark Buehrle tomorrow. Especially with Dumb and Dumber announcing.

We're dead last in BA, OBP, SLG, OPS in all of MLB against lefties. Good lefty or bad, soft tosser or hard thrower, we just can't hit them at all.

And that's why I don't think I'm even going to watch this game.

from Cubs.com I'm still not sure if Dusty made the decision or if Neifi did.