Here’s some links to keep readers amused as I look for a guest for Sunday’s radio show about litter:
From Chef Kevin’s site, this email he received about the downtown museum:
 ”…seems to me if they can’t do the marketing and promotions to raise enough money to BUILD the museum, why should anyone expect they’d be able [...]

CUTLINE: Chicago Cubs’ Kosuke Fukudome of Japan, catches a ball in the outfield at baseball spring training Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, in Mesa, Ariz.
The Chicago Cubs are counting on a power surge to lead them into the playoffs in 2008. Their newly imported outfielder will be a big part of the program:
Another player capable of [...]

Via the Associated Press:
Second baseman Mark DeRosa was taken out of the Chicago Cubs’ spring training complex on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to a hospital Saturday after experiencing an irregular heartbeat.
DeRosa was sitting up as he was wheeled out of the Fitch Park complex. Some of his teammates were still in the field [...]

Dusty Baker was a great manager … as long as his teams had plenty of healthy and happy superstars. In other words, Baker was a successful manager in circumstances in which I would be a successful manager.
What Dusty lacked was the ability to get good work out of players with less that stellar talent. Dusty’s [...]

I join with Nephew Neil in congratulating former Cub reliever Bruce Sutter elected to baseball Hall of Fame. I’m not even going to brgrudge Sutter for going in as a member of the Cardinals. And I also join with Mr. Sports Pundit in wishing that Andre Dawson and Ron Santo are brought into the hall.
It’s [...]

This is fantastic news. Jody Davis will manage the Peoria Chiefs next season. It will be his first manager job and will no doubt bring Cubs fans to the OBrien Field. Here’s why:
In just under 1,100 games, Davis batted .245 with 127 career home runs while earning a Gold Glove in 1986 and two All-Star [...]

The season’s been over for less than a month and Cubs pitching coach Larry Rothschild is already using the media to lower fans’ expectations for next season:
“I think, as an organization, we look at it that if Kerry [Wood] comes back, when he comes back, it’s going to be a bonus,” Rothschild said. “We have [...]

The Cubs have spoken: Nomar, please do us all a favor and take a hike:
“Nomar is a guy we all feel terrible about,” Hendry said. “He really worked hard to come back [from a severe groin injury] and play at all. He swung the bat well late.
“Unfortunately, he has had a lot of injuries that [...]

Instead of trying to find an aging power hitter , the Cubs are apparently starting to realize they need a decent lead off man:
The Cubs tried eight players in the leadoff spot last season: Jerry Hairston Jr. (76 games), Corey Patterson (29), Neifi Perez (26), Matt Lawton (18), Jose Macias (eight), Matt Murton (two), Ryan [...]

Stop hyperventilating Cubs fans. They are talking about the Bartonville native going to the hated White Sox to replace Paul Konerko:
Three years after the Cubs should have signed him, the White Sox could get a chance to bring power-hitting first baseman Jim Thome back to his home state.
General manager Ken Williams says re-signing Paul Konerko [...]

Will someone please indict this guy before he can do do even more harm:
[Ill. Gov. Rod] Blagojevich says he plans to call Cubs general manager Jim Hendry on Monday to set up a meeting to discuss ways to improve his favorite team.
“I asked [Hendry] if I could come and see him,” said Blagojevich, who attended [...]

Speaking of damaged goods, when will management realize that the guy is never going to be healthy?
Dump him. Get a few top prospects from some other team that thinks it has a shot and is willing to trade away its future on a dream coming true in 2006. That team ain’t the Cubs.
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Via the Chicago Tribune
Rafael Furcal enters the free-agent market seeking a five-year deal, a demand that could become a sticking point in the Cubs’ pursuit of the switch-hitting shortstop.
The Cubs are waiting to find out what Furcal’s price tag will be, in no apparent hurry to make an offer before the market is established. Atlanta, [...]

I’ve been a little critical of Nomar Garciaparra recently. It’s nothing personal. I just think he’s washed up and will spend what little time he has left in the Bigs on the DL nursing his injuries.
But Nomaaaaaaaah was in River City today, where he was supposed to play for the Peoria Chiefs on a rehab [...]