He-who-shall-not-be-named knows that something went horribly, horribly wrong last year. And he thinks he’s narrowed the cause of it down to a singular moment in time:

Awww, who am I kidding? This whole site is one big open thread.
 My thoughts so far:

 Maggie Gyllenhall looked beautiful
Cameron Diaz has so much fake tanner on she looked like she get stuck under a deep fryer
Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslet and I would totally be BFFs, if they only knew I existed
JLO is completely irrelevant
Penelope [...]

According to the oracle that IS Carrie Muskat, we shouldn’t expect to see Prior or Wood pitching anytime soon:
MESA, Ariz. — Mark Prior and Kerry Wood both are making progress, but neither was expected to appear in the first week of Cactus League games, Cubs manager Lou Piniella said Sunday.
Prior threw 35 pitches to hitters [...]

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Don’t look now, but our favorite cubbie-come-lately is going to get the first Cactus league start. I know that Chris is thrilled, as he and he-who-shall-not-be-named formed a strong bond during the Cubs Convention:

 
MESA, Ariz. — Jason Marquis will make his Cubs debut Thursday when he starts in the Cactus League opener against the San [...]

ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick has apparently been spending some quality time with Lou & The Boys down in Mesa, and has some “insight” (and I use that term loosely) regarding some of the rumors that have been inducing heart palpitations in many of us lo these past few days:

But has anyone been paying attention to what’s going on down at ST lately?
I give you Exhibit “A”

Lumpy McRoidrage returned to baseball this week, and he wants you all to know that you should be grateful:
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Sammy Sosa isn’t interested in answering the lingering questions about steroids. After a year out of baseball, the slugger has more pressing issues with the Texas Rangers.
“I don’t have to convince nobody,” Sosa said [...]

So what if I like Star Wars?
 For those who don’t know, the OBD (Off-Base Diary), originated over at another site. After about two weeks of the open game day thread devolving into a mess of “Anchorman” quotes, weather reports, and basic catchall for all the garbage sloshing around in everyone’s heads (well, mostly Proggy’s head), [...]

Sigh. Yet another baseball blog. Yet another Cubs blog. Do we really need another one of these, you ask? Why, yes, we do. 
There’s a fair number of stat-crunching sites out there. There are sites that specializing in photoshopping photos, sites that love to lay into the front office, SABR sites, pitching sites, management sites. Sites [...]