Question: How do you keep young Cubs arms healthy? Answer: By hurting their backs!
The Cubs train ride to the cellar just keeps on chugging along at full steam. During their weekend sweep at the hands of the Nationals, not one but four players pulled up lame. (Not to mention yet another ineffective start by terminally-injured Mark Prior.) Derrek Lee is headed back to the DL to rest his still not-healed hand, Marshall is on the DL with a strained oblique, Eyre's got a bad back, and Marmol bruised his hand in batting practice (more in this in a minute). Who the hell is training these guys? With the exception of Lee's broken wrist, one would think that all of these injuries could have been avoided. Time to fire the trainers. Again.
Speaking of Marmol's fluke injury, it apparently came while he was trying to hit home runs in batting practice. Dusty said he wasn't paying attention and that the Cubs coaches should pay more attention to what their players are doing before the games. Ya think? This comes after a recent revelation by the drunk third base coach, Chris Speier, who told The Score's Mike Murphy that the players don't have time to work on fundamentals because the Cubs Marketing department has been giving baseball clinics to corporate sponsors before the game, while the players THAT ACTUALLY NEED COACHING stand around and wait their turn to use the field. Unbelievable.
Tell me again why I root for this franchise?