Sorry, Cubs fans. Your team’s 101 years of championship futility aren’t coming to an end just yet. With Chicago barely clinging to NL wild-card hopes -- six games back of Colorado -- the team has now shut down left fielder Alfonso Soriano indefinitely with a sore left knee. He had first been scratched from the line-up on Aug. 25. From MLB Fanhouse:
Soriano Out Indefinitely; Cubs’ Playoff Hopes Dim
"Look, this is the right approach," manager Lou Piniella said Friday. "I thought about this long and hard yesterday on the airplane trip from Chicago to here and all last night I vacillated about it. And this morning I still felt the same way, that this was the best thing to do for this young man. And I stick to it."
Asked if Soriano might be done for the season, Piniella said, " I'm not going to go that far. ... I don't know exactly when or how soon, but we'll revisit it."
Well, there’s always next season.
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