Almost Over for Korey?

Several articles today on the Cubs search for help in center. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a blurb in its notebook column today:

NO ICHIRO: There was speculation in this morning's Chicago Sun-Times that the Cubs were looking for center fielders.

Carlos Beltran of the Royals was mentioned prominently, as was Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Ichiro was a center fielder during his days in Japan.

The Cubs have scouts all over the place looking for center field help.

"They can scout Ichiro all they want," one Mariners source said, "but that's not going to happen."

The Suntimes piece by Chris DeLuca is really just a "Korey is not the answer" piece. What's interesting is that the article states that Korey was notified that he was going to be an All-Star last year, but his name was pulled because he tore up his knee. That's the first I've ever heard of that.