I wore those pants WITH that shirt. I noticed Soriano has been hustling also, I surmise it is one of two reasons. Either he wants to be traded and is doing his best to make himself look as good as possible (he stole a base yesterday) or the hustle from the other youths on the team is contagious, my guess is he wants to be traded. LaHair- LaHair has been stuck in the minors behind juiced up sluggers. There is an entire generation of players that didn’t make the bigs because they didn’t cheat, LaHair is someone who didn’t cheat and is now more valuable because his kind of power isn’t so easy to come by anymore. LaHair should of been up sooner, baseball made a mistake by leaving him in the minors and by turning a blind eye to all those juiced up sluggers. LaHair should of been up in 2011 but Hendry had to sign a .192 hitter to a $10M contract because Buddy liked his OBP.

And chocolate glaze

We are going to see LaHair face another lefty.  So the worst that happens is he doesn’t hit, but we have seen enough of that with Baker.  So the Cubs can hopefully either find better trade value or realize they have a good player to build off of.  I think he has more room for growth as this is really his first year and is not stinking it up overall (June excluded being by itself).  I think if he can work more will only help trade value in another year or two or three when someone else would be ready.

That coming from a guy who hit below the Mendoza line off a pitching machine tossing jelly doughnuts with raspberry filling and chocolate glaze.

I saw four guys and a girl wearing that polo yesterday.

My oldest went yard 4 times this year (he is 12) while using an aluminum war club.  The bats wit the most pop, generally, are not made of metal or wood.  They are fiberglass composite.  I don’t like them because the tend to crack and should not be used when it is below 65 degrees outside.  In my neck of the woods it is below 65 for a month or so of baseball.

Dave Campbell is a pleasure to listen to.  I have no problems with the Len and Bob combo, but I certainly don’t mind Bob being out for a week if it means we get Campbell.  Loved him on ESPN, love him as a color guy.

Huge thumbs up to Maholm for grinding through his outing.  His command certainly wasn’t great last night, but he battled hard.  That type outing was exactly what I figured we would get from Maholm when he came over.

Speaking of LaHair, is there a specific reason I don’t see him in the lineup frequently? I live in Milwaukee and generally don’t get to see them play much, with the exception of brewers series. From box scores it seems he sits like 35-40% of the time. From what I’ve seen he seems like he should hit .270 full time at least – anyone know the logic?

As for him as an outfielder, I can’t see how he could be worse in left field than what we have now. Problem seems to me that Soriano needs to be dealt to an AL team where he could DH all the time – not that I’m the first one to point this out. Left field is not generally the home of the stellar defenders, see Ryan Braun for example. My understanding is that as an outfielder it’s not that he can’t catch, like sori, but that he has limited range. You sure don’t want 2 subpar outfielders in the lineup if you can avoid that.

Basically it’s all Soriano’s fault _

How much do you suppose one would have to slide Randy to get the pitcher to “throw” some soft-toss “pitches” during a game?  That might be the way to pad the stats.