Cubs pitcher Jason Marquis has told team management (though the media, of course) that he’d rather be traded than suffer the indignity of going to the bullpen. And Cubs Manager Lou Piniella has responded the way Lou Piniella does when this sort of controversy comes up: He told Marquis that if he wants a spot [...]

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 [...]

As promised here are two videos of Lou Piniella, manager of My Beloved Cubs. The first is from the press gaggle after Friday’s game, during which pitcher Carlos Zambrano and catcher Michael Barrett came to blows in the dugout and later in the clubhouse, sending Barrett to the hospital for stitches. Apparently, Zambrano and his [...]

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