The guy stands on a mound of dirt to do his job, whether it’s on artificial turf or not, and the official excuse for a back pain that sidelined him has been because of ‘playing on artificial turf for 6 days’. Why I don’t hear of players from those fields with artificial turf being sent to the DL for that is beyond me. So what’s the real reason he needed to be on the DL? Sounds to me like since the Scrubbies have been in 1st place for a while, and since that hasn’t happened in, well……..forever lol, suddenly they think the right way to go about it is by their giving in to the whining of star players who want to take a break because they aren’t used to playing so hard. Usually they have to play just hard enough to get by ‘cuz 3rd place is only a few games away. Wipe that frown from your face Carlos, you can hang out with your ‘Sweet’ Uncle Lou and get your hair done while talking about girls and cooties……..

So we’ve already witnessed a number of Spring Training injuries on the Cubs roster.  The two best are:

• Alfonso Soriano breaks his finger and is out a while.  This could hurt.  Alfonso has never been real “tough” and he doesn’t like to play through pain.  Could be a long year Cub fans.
• Jose Ascanio got jacked up in the face during a robbery attempt.
• Mark Derosa having heart issues.  We wish Mark all the best.  Even we wouldn’t joke about a serious matter like this.
• And the best of all - Felix Pie has been out for a few games due to a twisted testicle.  How in the world do you get a twisted testicle?  And how bad would that hurt? I never want to find out.