Peavy To Undergo Surgery, Become Lefthanded
by Al Yellon on Jan 28, 2009 8:46 AM CST
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In an effort to make himself more attractive to his potential future manager, Lou Piniella, San Diego Padres pitcher Jake Peavy announced this morning that he will undergo surgery that will allow him to pitch and hit lefthanded. It's not expected to be a complicated procedure and Dr. Howard "Lefty" Goldberg said that Peavy will be ready for spring training, which begins in only a couple of weeks.
"I've always been a team player," said Peavy, "and with the Cubs and Cubs fans seemingly ready to pick me up at O'Hare Airport with a Cubs uniform waiting, I thought I'd do something that I know would please my soon-to-be new manager."
Peavy, a .186 career hitter with two homers and 14 doubles in 382 career at-bats, will begin taking batting practice lefthanded as well. "I thought that if Lou wanted me to lead off, I could do better for the team if I hit lefthanded," Peavy said. "I'm going to get some lefthanded hitting tips from Jason Marquis."
Current leadoff man Alfonso Soriano, quoted in the Tribune today as saying he'd bat anywhere, in a statement made at the Cubs Convention:
"I feel comfortable batting leadoff and any [place] in the lineup," he said recently at the Cubs Convention. "It's not about me, it's about the team and what [manager Lou Piniella] wants to do this year because, I'm 33 now and they think I can't run anymore."
... added in a statement made to BCB that he'd be willing to bat ninth, if that's what it would take to get the new lefthanded Peavy in the lineup every day, pitching and leading off.
Padres general manager Kevin Towers scheduled five news conferences and appearances on local and national talk radio today to discuss the surgery, various proposed Cubs lineups with Peavy pitching and batting, and any other topics he could get reporters to talk about with him. "Don't you want my opinion on Rod Blagojevich?" Towers said. "I think he's lefthanded, too."
No one seems to know the answer to that question, Kevin. But don't let that stop you.
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A transpaw!
Wonder if he’ll be able to get his birth certificate altered?
"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.
Do they put handedness on birth certificates these days?
It’s not on mine.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Um, care to think about that question again? :)
Yes, doctor, the infant certainly seems to be favoring his left hand as he flails his arms uncontrollably about his head
Handedness isn't something you can tell at birth.
At least that’s the way I always understood it.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Did you mean to reply to Emelie then?
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Jan 28, 2009 9:44 AM CST up reply actions
I was just riffing
on today’s news ;-}
"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.
Ah, I missed that
Thanks for the link . . . that is . . . interesting
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Jan 28, 2009 12:29 PM CST up reply actions
Clearly 'twas sarcasm
Even I could decipher that, and I’m about as clueless as the next person at seeing sarcasm in text.
by northernsails on Jan 29, 2009 4:02 PM CST up reply actions
Leave the comedy to the professionals.
Isn’t there some obscure Cub you should be finding a picture of?
by WashUBearCub on Jan 28, 2009 8:54 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Professionals? Professional what? This is the only Jake Peavy post that has made sense
in the past two months. Maybe some of these “insiders” will now see how silly some of these other opinions are. Keep it up Al, we all need to take ourselves a little less serious in these difficult times.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Jan 28, 2009 9:13 AM CST up reply actions
What do "insiders" and silly opinions
have to do with the fact, that this wasn’t funny. It just adds to more pointless drivel.
by WashUBearCub on Jan 28, 2009 10:41 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
it's
the cut of his jib.
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on Jan 28, 2009 11:43 AM CST up reply actions
Remember when?
Hey Al remember 2 months ago when you said this would be the last post you ever make with Peavy? Hahah, this is worse than Brian Roberts!
Roberts already hits lefthanded, so he doesn't have to have surgery.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
With Roberts...
he actually is a switch-hitter, so that leaves Al few “extremities” to play with.
"When you are in a hole, stop digging." - anon.
Roberts could have surgery to become ambidextrous!
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
How about amphibious?
Now that would be news.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Jan 28, 2009 12:29 PM CST up reply actions
I WASNT SURE
if I should cry or laugh when I saw this.
When there is nothing about Peavy to discuss, will we go thru withdrawal?
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
The withdrawal ends
in 68 days…….8 hours…….4 minutes……….22 seconds………………………..
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
Actual Peavy news from our SBN Padres site Gaslamp Ball
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
first post
Vitters – Stud 3B prospect but is only in A ball
Olson – Lefty who has really struggled at the MLB level and ahs ok Minor Leauge #’s
Marshall – 4th starter at best who is out of options and close to arbitration
Cedeno – SS who is out of options and has a career OBP of .289
Hart – a mid level reliever
Is that really worth one of the top 5 pitchers in baseball?
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH! Methinks their expectations are a little out of order…
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on Jan 28, 2009 11:46 AM CST up reply actions
This is just totally getting annoying.
I understand this is the internet, I have the ability to go elsewhere for news, click the “Close” button, etc., but I come to BCB so regularly that I now expect quality posts from other BCBers about Cubs news. The past 2 weeks have become somewhat intolerable in the sense that there are very few posts that are worth anyone’s time. I understand I’m bitching about quality control on a blog about baseball, but com’on people, I’d like to think we are better than this.
Dan
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
by dtpollitt on Jan 28, 2009 9:26 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Um, that was kind of the point of this post.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
(Pssst! I don't think he got the point, Al.)
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Jan 28, 2009 9:46 AM CST up reply actions
(Pssst! I think you're right!)
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
huh?
I need new batteries for my Whispher 2000
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
Mocking crappy posts
with more crappy posts, doesn’t solve Dan’s problem.
I don’t think you got the point he was making.
by WashUBearCub on Jan 28, 2009 10:36 AM CST up reply actions
Al and Willie
got the point all right, it’s just that this is Al’s blog and he can do what he wants. I enjoy the light comedy post especially since it is the off season and there isn’t always important baseball news to report. I like the fact that Al takes the time to post everyday whether it is serious or not.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by tucsoncubsfan on Jan 28, 2009 11:27 AM CST up reply actions
I got the point.
I was voicing my own opinion on the dozens of JP & BR posts, not this particular one. To assume makes an ass out of you and me.
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
This should go on a Letterman's top ten
list of knowing how it’s a sloooooowwwwwwwwww day during the Cubs hot stove league.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
If Peavy doesn't
get resolved soon, he won’t be able to get one of those preferred uniform numbers in Mesa. Google Peavy and you get 7.5M hits.
If you like Selig's handling of the steroid issue, you'll love his choice for next Cub owner.
It's up to 7,520,000.
Can nothing stop it?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
ESPN 1000 now reporting
The Cubs are close to acquiring Aaron Heilemann from the M’s for another pitcher and Cedeno.
They also report – via Bruuuuuuuuce Levine – 3 teams are somehow interested in Rich Hill. I added the word “somehow”.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
For what? Clubhouse attendant?
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Jan 28, 2009 9:47 AM CST up reply actions
Who replaces Cedeno, then?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Don't know...
…I’m not Jean Dixon but what I can say is don’t view any move in a vacuum.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
Aurilia and the threesome of Miles, Theriot, Fontenot
Again I see a rotisserie with Miles and Theriot being able to flip positions regularly. Aurilia will fill in the emergency/occasion and also fill in 3B/1B depth
Piniella: "This is a tougher job than I thought it would be, I'm going to be honest with you."
Maybe Nate Spears does get that invite to big-league camp
after he stumbles into Jim Hendry between practice fields in three weeks.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
by Bill Potter on Jan 28, 2009 12:17 PM CST up reply actions
Designated intentional walk pitcher
So the real bullpen guy doesn’t have to start off by throwing balls…
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
Gah.
Heilman needs to start; he doesn’t want to be in the ‘pen. He won’t start for the Cubs.
Plus, he’s on my Strat-O-Matic team . . . I could use the innings for 2010.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Jan 28, 2009 9:49 AM CST up reply actions
Padres need pitchers
Duh
"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano
He's signed for $1.625M this year
avoiding arbitration, according to Cot’s… take with that what you please.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
And plus, Heilman is righthanded.
Why would Lou want him?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Oh stop already
We get it…
Besides I don’t remember Lou getting a boner for Southpaws.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
Somehow
that should be in a new Peavy/Roberts post
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
I overtly put in here so I could get
at least one response like that…. nice!
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
THOUGHT I WAS READING THE HECKLER.....
Really caught me off guard as I was trying to wake up ….But nothing would surprise me and more ….Good question on the Cedeno replacement ………
Nope...
When they come back to SportsCentre again in 9 minutes I’ll try to listen in and find out any more info.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
Brian Daugin reporting on SportsCentre, 10:00 CST
Bruce Levine reporting the same thing about a Heilemann deal and that “they’re close”. M’s are reported to be looking for Cedeno and another pitcher. That’s the entire Cubs-related update.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
When was the last time a Bruce Levine rumor proved true?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Do you mean other than 2 weeks ago when he broke the Milton Bradley story?
You’re kidding right? Levine is one of the better local beat guys in the country.
Oh I forgot
He’s also the one who broke the Derosa signing.
So the last 3 major transactions by the Cubs were all broken by Levine first, before anyone in the national or local media had gotten wind of them.
There's 3 below
Don’t tell me you don’t like Bruce’s reports….
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
by blackhawk24 on Jan 28, 2009 10:30 AM CST up reply actions
Oh for the days of real news
Just a suggestion Al: we already have one Heckler and it’s not funny either
The Heckler isn't funny?
I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on Jan 28, 2009 10:27 AM CST up reply actions
Well played Al
It got a good chuckle while drinking my coffee.
Call Dr. Crazy-Frankenstein...
Tell him to get funky with Peavy and stick his right arm where is right leg is, and his right leg where is right arm is. That would be one freaky cool windup! Stink, we’d even let him keep the leeches on the stitches. His teammates may not like to shower with him, but who cares about him! He’d be cooler than 3-Finger Brown.
Did Towers
amoung his many appearances run into Blago? Media blitz I say. Maybe Towers is Blago? Um crazy times.
"You can't take life to seriously, you don't get out of it alive"
Almost unbelievable
Pretty sad that I thought the article about Soriano was also going to be satire…still, I don’t believe that Soriano meant what he said about wanting to bat anywhere. Seems to me that Hendry or Lou (or both) were putting some PR pressure on him to talk like he was a team player…
And that wasn't news, either.
That quote was given at the Cubs convention, 12 days ago.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Why don't you believe him?
He’s been saying it ever since he joined the team, not just this month.
"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano
WTF
Is this a joke?
That's shitastic!
by CUBSfaninYANKEEcountry on Jan 28, 2009 9:17 PM CST reply actions
I enjoyed the post actually, but didn't realize Soriano was actually 33.
That’s a little depressing.
Just turned 33 the beginning of this month.
33 isn’t really “old” in baseball terms any more. By the 6th year of this deal we may regret it; I said at the beginning of the contract that if the Cubs won in the first 2-3 years we wouldn’t care.
That still holds.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
If they win in ANY year of the deal
We won’t care about his age.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Jan 29, 2009 8:24 AM CST up reply actions
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