


It ended up being a bit of a tough game as the Cubbies ended up losing to the Pirates, but there's still 160 games to go. The Cubs already won this afternoon, so they're 1-1 right now.
P.S. Robert Redford (The Natural) threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Kinda cool.
Looks like we'll be getting more snow.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Saturday that the parotid cancer was discovered last month.
The 50-year-old Gwynn faces radiation and chemotherapy treatments. He says doctors have told him they feel they caught the cancer early and “there was not much of it there.”
The cancer was diagnosed after the former Padres star had a third round of surgery since 1997 to remove a tumor on the parotid gland. The previous procedures found no malignancies.
Gwynn is San Diego State’s baseball coach, and the school confirmed Gwynn’s condition to The Associated Press. Gwynn plans to return to his alma mater, which he has coached since 2003.

It's a shame, really. He was so talented and promising when he was with the Cubs, but then it seemed that he had injury after injury after injury. I'd love to see him get it together.
I'm running out of patience with him, and I fear the Cubs organization may be as well. This time he got into a fight with HIS OWN TEAMMATE. He starts going after Derrek Lee and had to be restrained. He's out of control.
It's a shame, really. Zambrano is a hell of a pitcher, and a big part of the Cubs, but he's gotta get it in check if he wants to continue.
Last week, North Carolina eBay user lace_thongs35 thought she was putting up an everyday, 80s-era Nintendo Entertainment System (together with five games) on eBay. But less than an hour after the first bid, the price was over $6,000 -- and on Wednesday, when the auction closed, the final selling price topped $13,000.
Why? Not the console itself, but one of the games bundled with it -- a deeply obscure 1987 release called Stadium Events, a highly sought-after collectors' item. But it wasn't even the game itself that was worth the bulk of the money -- it was the original cardboard box, which collectors value at a breathtaking $10,000. Fewer than 10 complete copies of the game are thought to exist, and retro gaming aficionados consider it one of the hardest-to-find NES games ever made.
Not a bad way to make a good chunk of money!
After Williams's death in 2002, his son had his body cryogenicly frozen. Now a former executive at the facility where Williams is being kept has come out with a book claiming that "a technician took baseball-like swings at Williams' frozen head with a monkey wrench."
Eww. That's just shocking and horrifying enough that I could actually believe it to be true. People are sick.

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