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New Cubs Owners Will Probably Fix That [Mlb]

Dashiell Bennett — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EDT

The Chicago Cubs are officially sold (finally) to the Ricketts family. Meanwhile, Derek Lee's helmet becomes a metaphor of a fading season. Even the logo can't hold its head up high. [WSJ/The CMSB]

Jon Miller Learns Carlos Lee Trivia The Hard Way [Know Your Lees]

Sussman — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:50:00 EDT

We can't always be on our "A" game every single weekend. (Lord knows I'm hoping that's true.) Sometimes the perfect storm of events jar one's concentration just enough to experience a near meltdown. In my case, the day was June 25, 2007. I had locked my keys in a rental car. But keeping it together during moments of sheer ineptitude is what makes great professionals. Which brings us to ESPN's Jon Miller.

During last weekend's Cubs-Mets telecast, Miller made a passing mention to the Cubs first baseman, Carlos Lee. He meant Derrek Lee. No sweat, we all make mistakes. After a commercial break, Miller came back and took a hearty swing at correcting his goof:

Folks, before the break, I misidentified the Cubs first baseman, Derrek Lee, as being Carlos Lee. Carlos Lee plays up in Milwaukee, where he signed a big long-term contract over the offseason.

Here's the thing: Carlos Lee plays for the Houston Astros. Youch.

(Home Run Derby also has footage of Miller being startled by his on-air cue, which at this stage in the game is just rubbing it in. Which makes it even funnier.)

But hats off to Jon Meyer for staying calm during the telecast, because it wasn't just another game, it ended up being John Smoltz's 300th career victory. I'm sure his analyst, Joe Theismann, could learn a thing or two about how Mike Miller keeps his composure. After all, that's why CNN hired him.

Lees All Look Alike To ESPN's Jon Miller [Home Run Derby]

Cubs Fans Continue String Of Fantastic Luck [Baseball]

Leitch — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:45:07 EDT

Yes, yes, we're Cardinals fans, but like a lot of other Cardinals fans, we're having a hard time finding any giddiness from Derrek Lee's broken wrist, which could keep him out three months. Life's hard enough as a Cubs fan; this is just piling on. Oh, well: There's always the oceans of beer.

As you can probably guess, Cubs bloggers aren't handling the news well.

• Goat Riders Of The Apocalypse: "Ok. It's bad. Real bad. Really, really, really real bad. Worse than bad. A disaster. No, worse than a disaster. A fiasco. So, now what?"
• 1060 West: 'feel free to start discussing 2007... now."
• Cub Town: "I implore you, do not lose hope. It may be a thing for fools and dreamers, but what's life without a healthy dose of daffy romance? Expectations based on false assumptions or misapprehension of facts can, indeed, cause great pain, but hope is a sustainer, and if ever there was a group of baseball fans in need of sustenance, it is us."
• Cub Reporter: " I'm not even going to bother with potential replacements and how this will affect the Cubs for the time being. It's obviously not good and nobody in baseball that we can get is going to make up the difference."
• Bleed Cubbie Blue: "What more can be said? It happened. It sucks. But baseball continues."

Wrist Of Fate [Chicago Tribune]

Bill Simmons' Continued Blind Spot [Bill Simmons]

Leitch — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:51:17 EDT

We're sorry to pick on him — really! — but we feel obliged to point out that in his new More Cowbell column, which looks at the American League MVP race, our boy Bill says the National League race — a league that Simmons full confesses to "knowing nothing about" — "can be summed up in one word: Pujols." (We assume he means Albert; when it comes to the NL, you can never be too sure of Bill's ignorance.) Of course, the talk all year has been of Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee's run for the Triple Crown. We have a feeling Bill legitimately hasn't noticed. Of course, if we were hanging out with Jeffrey Ross and "Jimmy" at the Pam Anderson Roast, we might have missed some stuff too.

More Cowbell [Sports Guy's World]