Dueling Inanity

Two articles in two papers focus on the two big names on Cubs fans' lips: Mark Prior and Miguel Tejada.

In the Tribune, Phil Rodgers makes two salient points in a mostly lucid column. First, he states that Tejada will be traded. Given, Miggy's recent outburt, he likely will. Good for Miggy for mouthing off. Had Mark Grace been a little more vocal like this, perhaps the Cubs might have been pushed to improve the team. Instead, Grace was happy to smile and collect checks.

Miggy ain't that. He wants to win. Bully!

Rogers other key point was this:

No team needs Tejada more than the Cubs, but it's hard to imagine they are going to get a deal done

Bingo. The only glimmer is Hendry's acquisition of Garciaparra. In that case, Hendry got a guy who was on the outs with his current team. The player in question also had very questionable health. Not the case with Tejada.

Being realistic, you have to think that this second chance to get Tejada will be blown by the Cubs. And so would go 2006.

The other article was a Sun Times piece on Mark Prior. It seems that, despite the trade talk, he's going to the Cubs Convention.

I guess we finally see the tremendous downside of being a professional ballplayer for the Chicago Cubs.