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May

Attention Chicago Cubs. You have completed 21% of the season and things are just not going your way. I wasn’t expecting you to win the series this year but I was hoping you’d make a push for the wild card. Your offense is slacking with the exception of Ryan Theriot and Marlon Byrd. What’s with that? You have Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee who would probably be better off sitting on the bench. The plus side is Castro looks like he’ll blossom into a hell of a player. Might be a little soon to move Theriot over to 2B and have Fontenot and Baker both in the dug out. But he’s a good kid no doubt. The bullpen is in shambles. Big Z and a reliever? Gimme a break. I won’t even really comment on the bullpen because it could only be worse if it got hit by lightning but Carlos Marmol makes me nervous everytime he comes into a game as the closer. If you’re going to reassign Zambrano I’d sooner just phone up Cashman and make a deal. The positives I see which are very few from the mound perspective is that Dempster is giving you good games (that you end up dropping) and the same could be said for Gorzelanny (with the same result) so you’ve got a little under 130 games to do now so make the most of them boys. Win some games. Show some heart. Play like you want the Cubs to have a World Series title again, it’s only been over 100 years.

Attention Chicago Cubs. You have completed 21% of the season and things are just not going your way. I wasn’t expecting you to win the series this year but I was hoping you’d make a push for the wild card. Your offense is slacking with the exception of Ryan Theriot and Marlon Byrd. What’s with that? You have Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee who would probably be better off sitting on the bench. The plus side is Castro looks like he’ll blossom into a hell of a player. Might be a little soon to move Theriot over to 2B and have Fontenot and Baker both in the dug out. But he’s a good kid no doubt. The bullpen is in shambles. Big Z and a reliever? Gimme a break. I won’t even really comment on the bullpen because it could only be worse if it got hit by lightning but Carlos Marmol makes me nervous everytime he comes into a game as the closer. If you’re going to reassign Zambrano I’d sooner just phone up Cashman and make a deal. The positives I see which are very few from the mound perspective is that Dempster is giving you good games (that you end up dropping) and the same could be said for Gorzelanny (with the same result) so you’ve got a little under 130 games to do now so make the most of them boys. Win some games. Show some heart. Play like you want the Cubs to have a World Series title again, it’s only been over 100 years.

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22

Mar

Damon Can Finally Wear His Red Sox Ring.

We imagine that, upon reading that Johnny Damon has taken to wearing his 2004 Red Sox World Series ring now that he’s a member of the Detroit Tigers, a Yankees fan is expected to react by shaking his or her head, mumbling something about how players these days have no loyalty, and repeating Jerry Seinfeld’s old line about how we’re really just rooting for laundry.

But it says a lot about the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry that Damon felt he couldn’t wear the ring — the symbol of the best moment of his professional career, which he’s entitled to wear all day, every day, should he so choose — while playing in New York, and only started to do so when he realized this off-season that he’d be headed elsewhere. He obviously cares a lot about such symbols: He tells the Post he doesn’t want to wait until August (when the Tigers visit Yankee Stadium) to receive his 2009 ring; he wants it mailed to him as soon as possible.

Perhaps Damon really did immerse himself in the New York–Boston rivalry, and refused to wear the ring because he considered wearing a Red Sox logo on his person to be unacceptable behavior. (In which case, good for him.) Or maybe he was just afraid that if he did wear it, the Post would snap a photo, put it on the front page (headline: “Red Menace”), and provide an unnecessary distraction. Because they totally would have.

Written By: Joe DeLessio

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