Ryan Theriot

I am so excited to finally watch a Chicago Cubs game in Spring Training. So, I am gonna do my best to do up-to-the-minute highlgihts.

9:06 p.m.: Getting ready to start. White Sox John Danks is the starting pitcher. So Taguchi plaays right field for the Cubbies. Derrek Lee is off, Micah Houffpauir is at first. Seems sold out, which I think it is. Groovy.

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fense by every infielder.  That fateful 2nd inning, Zambrano essentially pitched 7 outs.  Ryan Theriot should have gloved the ball after the lead off single, DeRosa should have had an easy double play, and Derrek Lee, most surprisingly of all the infielders, booted a can of corn grounder.  Normally, he picks that like a badly congested nose.  Counting the double play as two outs, that's 4 potential outs passed up, and Zambrano had to work for the next 3.  7 outs.  SEVEN!  Unbelievable and unallowable.

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  Team effort...the reason I love the Cubs.  They are a great group of athletes, but they are also a great group of friends. Every game it's obvious that the players like each other and all understand what they could accomplish this year. I don't see any one man show out there....I see a team. Theriot slapping balls up the middle and to right fields...Lee hitting sac flies...Harden hustling down the first base line for an infield single...Blanco with a clutch game-ending hit. The list goes on. Never before have I seen a Cubs team get along so well. After every hit the player will put his two index fingers up and point to the bench as one of his fellow teammates is standing at the front of the dugout cheering him on. I love to see that. 

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He'll be across the keystone from fellow LSU Tiger Ryan Theriot, and these two seemed to make each other better in those spots last season, so Chicago fans hope for more of the same. But neither Fontenot nor DeRosa are leadoff guys, so Theriot might move back up to the top spot in the order.

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It has been a while since my last post, which was bitter to say the least. A month and a half later I can hardly find much to complain about when it comes to the Cubs. They look like the best baseball team in the National League right now (obviously their record doesn't disagree), and after a 7-0 homestand this week, my baseball excitement is at its peak. I can't miss a Cubs game anymore. I make a point to try to watch or listen to every game, and I went to two games during the undefeated homestand. They have just been so entertaining to watch. Their play has been solid all around, and their offense has just been hilarious. Geovany Soto has been incredible, and he looks like he is going to be a legitimate NL all star catcher for years to come in the shadow of Mike Piazza.

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Big-Z must finally reach his enormous potential and carry this staff to the promise land.

Steals: Ryan Theriot

darkhorse: Felix Pie

Saves: Bob Howry

darkhorse: Carmen Pignatiello

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s been the case with every club"

     As far as the lineup in concerned. Ryan Theriot will lead off, followed by Alfonso Soriano in the two hole. And Felix Pie, after an impressive spring, officially won the centerfield spot and will start in the eighth spot.

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nbsp;for Soriano would either be clean up or five because that would open the line-up for Ryan Theriot and Kosuke Fukodome at the top. 

     Soriano's quad injury that has apparently not healed from the end of last season has appeared to continue to hamper his ability to be a threat on the base paths. In his last year in Washington, the all star outfielder stole 41 bases compared to just 19 last year.

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