chicagosports.chicagotribune.com - 8/27/2007
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PHOENIX -- Alfonso Soriano will be back in the starting lineup Tuesday night against Milwaukee after a three-week absence with a torn quadriceps. "Unless he slips coming off the airplane," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said with a laugh before Sunday's game. Of course, with the Cubs' history of strange injuries, anything is possible. Piniella said Soriano would return four to five days earlier ...
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He's Back......!
Cobra Brigade —
... Mr. Soriano is returning to the Cubs on Tuesday against Milwaukee. This is huge for the Cubs. Look, let's be honest with each other, the Cubs offense isn't the best. Ok, it's barely mediocre most nights and that's when Soriano IS healthy. The Cubs have played the last 19 games without Soriano and while they went from 2 games back to 1 1/2 games up....the offense struggled....mightily. While Soriano won't be stealing bases like Jose Reyes, he will bring another weapon to the offense. On top of that, now Ryan Theriot will slide down to the two hole and the Cubs should have even more runners on base for.... ...
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... to Brett Myers after Myers called him "retarded" (by asking him if he could spell retarded, no less ... brilliant.) I've long waited for a reporter to call an athlete out on their stupid postgame interview antics. If only this guy had been on the Giants beat when Strahan had his infamous "I'm going to spit my food all over the room I'm so angry" outburst last year. -Alfonso Soriano will get back on the field for the Cubs tomorrow. Cubs fans everywhere implode, unsure of how to respond to good luck.
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