See you in court!

In follow-up to my 9-25-09 post, I note that Derrek Lee is still out of the Cubs lineup after suffering "severe and permanent personal injuries and grievous harm" when he was "negligently and recklessly battered" by teammate Angel Guzman when Mr. Guzman refused to "cease and desist" during a "prolonged, excessive and unnecessarily dangerous" dugout celebration last Thursday.

Something tells me that the attorney for Derrek Lee will be meeting the acquaintance of the attorney for Angel Guzman very shortly. Something just tells me.

Look, I don't know how many lawyers there are in the United States but it's like a mega-high number* and the constitution has already been written so they all need something else to do, you know.

*Looked it up: 1,143,358 in 2007. They can't all work for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Excessive celebration injury!

Per Bruce Levine at ESPNChicago.com, Cubs first baseman, Derrek Lee was injured upon entering the Cubs dugout after scoring the game-tying run in the Cubs eventual win over the Giants Thursday.

As Lee entered the dugout, he was mobbed by teammates and relief pitcher, Angel Guzman slapped the side of Lee's helmet causing him to experience neck spasms that forced him to come out of the game for defense in the bottom of the ninth inning. Lee has a history of neck and back problems and indicated that he was hoping to be back in the lineup Friday though the team's training staff indicated that he may need to sit out a few games.

I guess when you are 9.5 games out in late September in a year when you were expected to compete in the World Series, you have berserker-type celebrations when you tie a game. Who am I to judge?

And they thought Milton Bradley was the problem there!