Curious Case of the Cubs Calendar

Last year I discussed on multiple occasions the 2009 Cubs calendar I received from my mother (a Sox fan, who no doubt put a curse on it) for Christmas of 2008. It started out that many of the players featured on the calendar were traded by the time the beginning of the season had rolled around and ended up predicting the Cubs long string of injuries, amazingly with such accuracy as the featured player of the month would inevitably be on the DL at least for part of that month (longest sentence, EVER). This year, I skipped the Cubs calendar, instead my girlfriend bought me a Bears desk calendar instead.


But the Cubs are still prone to injury and Cubs players are already falling right and left. Ted Lilly will inevitably start the season on the DL, Soriano came into camp "not 100%", Angel Guzman is having shoulder problems after offseason knee surgery and Theriot was hit in the wrist by a 95 mile hour fastball by one of our youngster during batting practice. So I decided to do some research on this year's Cubs Calendar, put out by the good folks at Turner Licensing (who are also probably Sox fans, although by the name they may be Braves fans). As you can see above, here is the back of the calendar. Unfortunately, the quality is hardly the best and the Idiots still have not received our CSI enhancing software, but we can take guesses as good as the next guy.



The calendar starts out with Ted Lilly in January. That one was obvious, as it was probably already known by the designers that he would start the year off injured. The other Cubs are a little bit harder to distinguish, but it looks as if the order may be this:

February - Zambrano
March - Soto
April - Ramirez
May - Rich Harden (no longer on the team)
June - Unknown player
July - Theriot
August - Lee
September - Soriano
October - Dempster
November - Sweet Lou
December - Fukudome

So expect these guys to be injured or traded during the year.

Go Cubs!



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