Cubs’ Gatorade dispenser designated for assignment—chicagotribune.com
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Cubs’ Gatorade dispenser designated for assignment—chicagotribune.com When will someone start thinking of the Gatorade machines? A congressional hearing is certainly in order. Going, going, gone? Foxsports.com reporter Ken Rosenthal quoted an unnamed Cubs official Saturday as saying the Gatorade dispenser will be removed from the Cubs’ dugout. “We’ll get it out of there in a couple of days,” the high-ranking executive said. The machine, which replaced the decades-old water cooler that dispensed Lake Michigan water to thirsty Cubs players from Joe Pepitone to Mark DeRosa, ...
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... As reported on yesterday's telecast, the beleaguered, battered Gatorade dispenser in the Cubs dugout will be removed after the homestand is over: ...
Cubs’ Gatorade Machine To Be Placed On Waivers
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... (pictured above) is like the self-serve soda machine at your local fast-food joint — an actual mechanism that requires a service call to fix if it’s blasted with 35 ounces of maple. And, “in this economy,” the Cubs decided they didn’t want to have to keep calling the repairman to come put the thing back together. Dempster, in a somewhat hilarious interview (video after the jump), says the dispenser will be missed but has to share in some of the blame. The CHICAGO TRIBUNE says that the man who does the repairs was watching when Big Z went off on it the other night : While the ...
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Carlos Zambrano is having a bad week
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... following the ejection, bashed a Gatorade machine into retirement , drawn a six-game suspension from MLB, and now the Chicago Tribune ...
AaronGleeman.com — ... an average of 108,000 "households" per game, which is pretty amazing when New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit are the only markets ahead of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the Washington Post notes that the Nationals have seen their TV audience increase by 56 percent this season ... and are still drawing only 12,000 households per game. The poor Gatorade machine that Carlos Zambrano went berserk on last week has been designated for assignment by the Cubs. Apparently they don't have ...
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[Zambrano announces he'll soon join this Cub Gatorade machine and Sammy Sosa in retirement.]
Following this week’s shock announcement that Sammy Sosa is still a player, Carlos Zambrano last night announced his own graceful exit from baseball for 2012. At 28, he’s a 100 game winner, force fed bananas daily, dethroned Iron Man Kerry Wood as the Cubs’ top starter, destroyed a Gatorade machine, has a no-hitter, and tossed his first umpire out a week ago. Zambrano apparently sees no worlds ...
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... , laid into Bradley and called him a “piece of shit” in the dugout and sent him to the showers – but not before Bradley went after the Cubs’ beleagured Gatorade machine. Well, the Sox’ s machine, as the Cubs’ Gatorade machine was removed for its own safety. Bradley sought solace in the local Chicago media, and Paul Sulliivan was only too happy to climb up on a chair to give Milton a shoulder to cry on, ...
