As our roller-coaster season continues, Ted Lilly gets the ball today against the Tigers in one of his final tune-ups before his eventual no-hitter in the upcoming MLB All-Star game in St. Louis.While the Cubs have been up and down recently, lost in the shuffle has been Derrek Lee's resurgence to fantasy baseball prominence (prominence = starting spot) highlighted by his not-yet-DiMaggio-friendly 22-game hitting streak.
This streak got us thinking about what other streaks various Cubs players (present and past) might secretly have going.
- Ted Lilly: 31 straight years of being badass (ed note, Ted Lilly is actually immortal)
- Milton Bradley: 31 straight years trying to convince the world that he is a) related to the game-board empire and b) came up with idea for Mall Madness
- Todd Hundley: 15 straight days watching "Price Is Right" in locker room without pants
- Paul Sullivan: 15 straight days for the Tribune scribe hanging out weirdly close to Todd Hundley during his no-pants phase
- Mark Grace: 5 straight days of "Slump Busting" with women over two bills.
- David Patton: 10 straight years of reminding people of James Gumb from "Silence of the Lambs"? Baby puts the lotion in the basket...
- Sammy Sosa: Soon to be 5-10 years as someone's "lady friend" in Illinois Correctional for lying to Congress. Doubt his Spanglish is going to go over too well in prison...
- Dusty Baker - 34 straight games of calling Jason Dubious, "Justin"
- Joe Borowski---Fresh off his Mexican League career, 21 straight days eating only churros
And there you have it, TedHeads...credible blog proof that Derrek Lee is not the only one that carried the burden of a streak. While we are most impressed with TL's streak of infinite BAMF-ness, we also give a nice tip of the hat to the other folks (except for Sullivan and Sosa--you two are not welcome at the TLFC 4th of July Party)...
With that in mind, we welcome in Ray Stevens (known best for his 1974 opus, "the Streak") for today's prediction:
6.2 IP, 1 ER, 7 Ks, 3BBs and 2 Lady TedHeads arrested for running onto the field in an admirable but illegal/Mrs. Lilly-upsetting attempt to touch Ted and get a lock of his hair for cloning purposes
3 comments:
I'm sure none of us Lady TedHeads would EVER do something like that.....right girls???
Um, sure, yeah, no I wouldn't do that.
I'm afraid that running onto the field would not be honest and true. So it certainly wasn't Elizabeth and I during the 6th inning. It wasn't, I swear.
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