More Sammy

Sammy Sosa held his big annual spring training press conference yesterday, which was as uninteligible as usual. The gist of it is that Sammy's glad to be on his shiny new team, which is much better than his stupid, old team, which never protected him(who was supposed to protect him, and from what, was never said-maybe Sammy is afraid of the bogey man) and he doesn't miss his old teammates, who are absolutely insane to think that they can win without him. I didn't think it was possible, but Sammy's act is even more annoying to me now that he's gone. Part of the reason Sosa is so annoying is the Chicago's treatment of abscence. I mean, spring training has begun, and I want to hear stories about the current Cubs team. For a team that's being picked by most to compete for a playoff spot, the Cubs have a surprising number of pivotal roles that are going to be sorted out in spring training. I'd like to know if Joe Borowski's hitting 93 on the radar gun, does this team really think that Jerry Hairston can be an everyday player, is Sergio Mitre really going to get a shot at the 5th starter's job and does Jason DuBois have a chance in hell at winning the left field job. Instead, I get articles on whether or not guys think the locker room atmosphere is better without Sammy Sosa's boombox there. That's right, a full article was written on an inanimate object that belongs to a guy who's not on the team anymore. Does anyone care(by the way, I hate to break this to you, but if you do care, you're an idiot)? Another thing we don't need to hear about right now is team chemistry. Team chemistry is somewhat overrated, and even if you think it's the most important thing, you can't judge something like that during the first two weeks of spring training. Besides, remember those happy-go-lucky Astros and their best ever August and September that got them the Wild Card? Well, do you remember that in late July, after the Cubs series at Minute Maid that Jeff Bagwell and Roy Oswalt nearly came to blows over Oswalt's penchant for hitting opposing players, getting ejected, and leaving his teammates to take the payback?