Happy Ash Wednesday, you silly Catholics. I’m sure half of you have already broken your Lenten resolutions, so let’s hope the Cubs fare better with theirs. As always, HJE used its insider access to ask the Cubs (and some former Cubs), “What are YOU giving up for Lent?”
LOU PINIELLA: “Losing playoff games.”
RYAN DEMPSTER: “Fake vomit.”
TED LILLY: “Stabbing.”
RICH HARDEN: “Acting like Mark Prior.”
MIKE FONTENOT: “Trying to look like one of the neighbors from The ‘Burbs.
SEAN MARSHALL: “Sleeping with whomever I’m sleeping with that’s keeping me out of the rotation.”
AARON MILES: “Staying in budget hotels.”
JEFF SAMARDZIJA: “Trying to spell my name correctly.”
JIM HENDRY: “Donuts. After this one, of course.”
MICAH HOFFPAUIR: “Asking people to call me ‘Mike Power.’”
RICH HILL: “Bedwetting.”
JIM ESSIAN: “Clapping.”
MIKE QUADE: “Waxing my eyebrows.”
LARRY ROTHSCHILD: “Wearing my pajamas instead of my uniform to games.”
FELIX PIE: “Taking advice from Corey Patterson.”
KOSUKE FUKUDOME: “Sucking.”
MILTON BRADLEY: “NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS! But, seriously, rage.”
GEOVANY SOTO: “Twinkies.”
NEAL COTTS: “Shampoo.”
AARON HEILMAN: “My dreams of ever being a starter.”
KOYIE HILL: “Table saws, hacksaws, the movie Saw. Any type of saws, really.”
REED JOHNSON: “Trying to grow out a more ridiculous beard than Matt Clement.”
CARLOS ZAMBRANO: “Giving up hits.”
CARLOS MARMOL: “Pitching eight days in a row.”
ALFONSO SORIANO: “The leadoff spot.”
DERREK LEE: “Warning-track flyballs.”
ARAMIS RAMIREZ: “Cock fighting. Also, making fowls fight with razor blades on their beaks and legs.”

MIKE FONTENOT: “Trying to look like one of the neighbors from The ‘Burbs.
That’s awesome. I thought I was one of the only people on earth to actually see that movie in the theater. And yes…holy shit. He looks like one of that clan. Good call.
Is Carlos giving up hits for Lent, as in getting shelled? Or is he giving up allowing hits?
Also, damn you for posting that picture of a steak.
@T.J. Brown – He’s giving up both hits allowed and hits to catchers’ faces.
That didn’t clarify anything, did it? He’s going to throw 33 no-hitters next year.
All of them played in Milwaukee. Houston secedes from the league in protest.
Jim Edmonds: I promise I won’t screw the pooch by playing baseball again this year. I’ll just screw the pooch.
Mike powerrrr…Mike poweeeeerrrr..He’s the man whose name you’d love to touch…
But, you musn’t touch!
His name sounds good in your ear
But when you say it, you mustn’t fear
Because his name can be said by anyone!
Paul Bako- Baseball.
Lee should also give up rally killing double plays
Ted Lilly: Homeless mexicans
HJE: Making interweb memes that attract people to this site that aren’t funny and make annoying comments to these “articles”
TDUBBS: “Inexplicably and annoyingly trying to drive people away from HJE because it makes me feel like an internet tough guy, and because I wrongly think I’m entitled to special privileges here.”
@TDubbs – TDubbs: Giving up my sense of humor, or lack thereof.
Holy shit. Aaron Miles is hard core.
Did anyone actually read the linked article.
Thanks Kermit.
I have a whole new respect for Aaron Miles.
The guy who was tied up is scarred for life.
Aaron Miles was held at gun point, told he was gonna die, wrestled (and not the WWE shit) with the gunman, ended up with the gunman’s blood all over him and a big chunk of skin taken out of his back (where the gunman had bitten him), and all he says is it “just faded away.”
My new hero’s: Lilly, Miles, Bradley and Carlos.
Now that’s a posse.
Ted Lilly: The sweet taste of human flesh. … Nah, I’m just kidding. Can’t give that up. My final answer? Having sex with Lou’s wife.
Awesome, Kerm.
I’d like to add:
Paul Bako–bringing a rolled up newspaper to the plate to hit with instead of a bat.
And yes. I now no longer resent Aaron Miles’ existence. A true bad ass.
You’re an asshole. I love you.
Cubs Fans–The mind-boggling attachment to Mark DeRosa.
Ron and Pat The attendance game. Really, they are.
Chicago Cubs PR: Guest conductors!
Jake Peavy – wondering if I’m going to help a storied franchise (yes, that’s not the Padres, folks) help win some playoff games
@original Al – Oh God how I wish the guest conductor tradition would stop. Too many “conductors” screw up the lyrics and I cringe whenever I hear the pre-song awkward interviews given by Kasper and Brenly.
Friend of mine gave up beer for lent. What a faggot. He can still drink hard alcohol, but still. What a fag.
I gave up hope for T60.
I gave up baseball. And yet here I have 6 days later reading about baseball. *sigh
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