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!

Perry Hill can use Derrek Lee as a reference any time

Per Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Perry Hill who is the infield instructor for the Pittsburgh Pirates may not want to stay with the team even though the team carries an option on his contract for 2010 because he is unhappy with the trades of three of his four infielders: Jack Wilson, Freddy Sanchez and Adam Laroche. Obviously it is a poor state of affairs when your infield instructor who is under contract to you does not want to stay with the team. Frankly, I always thought any infield instructor on a major league team should just be "happy to be there" but I guess things don't work that way with the Pirates.

I do note that Derrek Lee of the Cubs who was with Hill when they were together with the Marlins offered these comments on Hill: "Perry Hill is probably the best coach I've ever had. What he preaches defensively, what he brings as an infield coach, I'd say he's worth 10 to 15 wins a year as a coach. That's saying a lot for a coach. We'll take him."

10-15 wins attributable to an infield instructor?!

Just what is he doing out there?

Does he have some special insight on positioning? Does he have special oil for their gloves? Does he apply their eye-black just right?

What is it?

10-15 wins is about what you get from an all-star starting pitcher when you subtract out his losses. Perry Hill is certainly underpaid if we are to believe Derrek Lee!

You know, I bet Derrek Lee wishes that Perry Hill was somehow with him on that card above; like maybe in the background flashing a sign or offering encouragement or even picking up his broken bat. If the guy is worth 10-15 wins a year, surely he should be on a card.

Right? I mean you can't deny him. Not with those numbers.