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Once again, Derrek Lee shows why he's my favorite player, single handidly willing the Cubs offense to a 4-3 victory tonight. It's too bad that Prior did not get the win and Will Ohman did. Ohman faced one batter and got a great double play but in no way did the same pitching job that Prior did. I have no real qualms about any of the managing tonight. Hairston showed why he was leading off in the 9th. I probably would have yanked Prior after the two solo shots in the 6th. He was up already around 92 pitches and is coming back on regular rest on Sunday, but he was terrfic in the 7th, so I would have looked bad.

Too much has already been said about the recent signing of Enrique Wilson and in short I have no idea why it was made either. So go check out the other blogs; they include statistics that make everyone scratch their head.

The Zambrano injury is kind of quirky to me. This was the quote from Baker: "Baker said after a doctor explained to him the spot where Zambrano is feeling soreness, he asked bench coach Dick Pole if he'd ever seen that in that part of the arm. Baker explained that Pole said, "No, never." I don't know if Dusty is using that as a way to justify that Zambrano's injury isn't from pitching, but if it is, it's bizarre. From my humble (student physical therapy) perspective, lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) comes from overuse. 136 pitches is overuse. That didn't cause the injury, but it didn't help things either. Then these quotes: "The doctor said that that's what you see in a non-throwing injury situation," Baker said. "Whatever it was that caused it, we're trying to get to the bottom of it so it doesn't return. It definitely had something to do with the cramps that he would get and different things. We're talking to him to find out some of the things he may be doing off the field that might be causing this discomfort on the field.
"We're exploring. One of the theories the doctor has is on his swing -- that's what they get on swinging. That's possibly one of them, but we're looking into some other areas to find out what he's doing to pop up as a non-throwing injury." This is all way too vague in my opinion.

In my opinion from just reading is that this injury is from pitching.