At Least Now I Get To See My Favorite Player More Than Every Five Days

By now you've heard that Big Z will be moving to the bullpen when Lilly returns on Saturday. It's being called the dumbest move the organization has made since trading Lou Brock and even all the way back to the namesake of this fine blog, the failed college of coaches experiment. Since every other blog has already wrote about every conceivable take on the move, from comical to outright anger to breaking down the facts, I thought I would mull it over last night and come up with something genius this morning to write about.

But I can't come up with shit. Part of me agrees with everyone else that this move is horribly retarded. The other part understands that this team needs something to break up it's losing ways. This move is shocking, which is exactly what Lou probably wanted. Lou is a professional manager and at times a great one. Sure he can't seem to figure out a regular lineup and sometimes seem to have lost his fire, so why not throw Z into the bullpen to light it under their asses instead?

Honestly, between all the blogs and tweets, no one really knows if this move is what the Cubs need. We just have to wait and see. If it works, then Lou is a genius. If it doesn't, everything goes back to how it was, the Cubs still suck and Lou has basically pointed out how inept Hendry has been during the offseason by forcing his hand by putting an $18 million ace as his setup man.

Fuck, it's only April. The Cubs haven't given up yet even though it might seem that way. And really, are you THAT surprised? This is a team that traded Lou Brock, signed Milton Bradley to a 3 year deal and has raised such great ballplayers like Corey Patterson and Felix Pie. All those things worked out, right? Okay, maybe those are all bad examples.

Go Cubs?


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