Springfield_CUBBY

I'm down to #20680 . . . but I feel like I've been on the list forever. Not sure when I can expect to get the call, but that's OK, because my plan is for this to happen when I hit retirement. As to the glut of tickets, I can say that - as the father of 5 - I have never taken them to a game. The cost is just too prohibitive.

Bryant batting CLEAN UP!

the dream is over people . . . http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/18145301-573/cubs-2012-stolen-base-leader-tony-campana-designated-for-assignment.html

I'm in central IL! (Springfield) What station is carrying the game????

He does somewhat resemble the not quite mentally there adult son who lives in his parents or grandparents attic or basement that the neighborhood kids always want to play with depsite their parents pleas to stay away from him. Goonies and To Kill a Mockingbird both tell me that he's harmless. Brian LaHair leaves me gifts in the knothole of a tree

Park's closed . . . Moose out front should've told ya'

can you imagine? From DFA to opening day 1B from the Trib: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0405-bits-cubs-chicago--20120405,0,5788806.story

huh, how are you getting 11 ... I'm looking at 5 starters, marmol, wood, russell, dolis, and 2 from the 4 of de la cruz, castillo, corpas, lopez, with 13 positional guys (2 catchers, starting if, starting of, baker, dewitt, mather, johnson). 5+4+2 is 11. If the word of 2 of the 4 making the pen is accurate, it looks like Campana gets to be mascot/pinch runner/bunting enthusiast. From the Trib:

Is this really that difficult of a concept? I like Kerry Wood. I like the Cubs. Therefore, I like having Kerry Wood on the Cubs. How long before Woody becomes the Cubs version of Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? "That's what I love about these rookies, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

I just got done explaining to my 9 year old daughter (who's favorite player is Reed Johnson) why he won't be back next season. Thanks for making a liar out of me Theo . . .

Goold: "What do you make of these discussions?" Agent: "Why I could make a hat, or a brooch, a pterodactyl. . . ."

5-foot-11, 180-pounds . . . man, that's a WHOLE LOTTA grit!

I'll bet it has a SWEET panic room . . . !

So, what you’re saying is . . . he knows what we don’t know, and he knows that he knows what we don’t know, but we don’t know what he knows we know, and THAT’S what’s important . . . !

Sveum is so poor . . . when he walks down the road, he wears one shoe. And if you ask him if he lost his shoe, he says, "No, I found one."