Rivalry weak

May 15th, 2008 at 12:53am Tony Garcia

Tribune Cubs beat reporter Paul Sullivan, in his missive about the Jim Edmonds signing, actually thinks fans are against the move is because Edmonds was part of the great Cardinals-Cubs rivalry.

For a city that welcomed Dennis Rodman, Bob Probert and A.J. Pierzynski into the fold, Chicago is more than capable of opening the door for an enemy-turned-friend.

No, I’m mad because this is such a TYPICAL Cubs move to retard the progress of a prospect in the hopes that a player whose career started falling apart the minute Major League Baseball began its crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs … and was hitting .178 for the last-place Padres … and who couldn’t beat out Scott Hairston and Jody Gerut in the aforementioned San Diego outfield, will deliver shots onto Sheffield with regularity.

I hope I’m wrong about Edmonds. Then again, I hope for a lot of things.

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