Morning Walk-thru - All-Injury Edition

That was Lucky...Finally, a good break for Nebraska in a Spring of unfortunate events. Marlon Lucky just has a sprained knee, which will shelve him for a bit but it's not like he dropped a television and snapped the biggest and strongest bone in the human body, so that's good.

This wasn't lucky...Pretty fantastic fantasy day for my league leading Fruit Jar Drinkers yesterday. First, Vlad Guerrero gets drilled on the wrist and leaves the game, then Alfonso Soriano comes up lame trying to field a sinking liner. He was clutching his hamstring as he departed, but the good news is it was his lower hamstring, preferable to up around the buttocks according to the announcer.

Neither injury looked too serious, but still, twice yesterday I felt like my fantasy season was instantly over. You just don't replace guys like that. (At least Guerrero, right now Ryan Theriot has been better than Soriano.)

And while we're on the Cubs...Following Soriano's tweak, I began to wonder, isn't it too early for the Cubs to be the Cubs already? Last place. Eerie injuries to major pieces of the puzzle. (Ramirez, Soriano) Losing games they should win. I thought $300 million would at least buy us all a free pass until mid-May.

Luckily, the Cubs came out and put a four-spot on the board, including Thunder Matt Murton beating out a sure double play to pick up an RBI. Sweet Lou loves that shit and I do too.

From there, the whuppin' sticks stayed out as the Cubs blasted three homers in the fifth and sixth innings, getting the first eight men on in the bottom of the 6th on their way to a 12-4 win.

For now, spirits are high.

Butler might be back...Sounds iffy to me, but Caron Butler is hoping to rejoin the Wizards at some point during the playoffs.

What's the big hurry? Without Gil, Washington isn't going anywhere. Take your time Caron!