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Midweek musings: The Chicago Cubs plan to move their Class A Peoria Chiefs farm club to Kane County. The move certainly seems logical. After all, the Cubs have pretty much given Wrigley Field viewers a Class AAA Iowa Cubs team.
Coming attraction: Playboy Playmate Pilar Lastra will be on "Sports & Torts" on Aug. 23 at noon Chicago time on talkzone.com
* Speaking of minor leaguers, the Cubs could emerge this season as a league leader. Unfortunately for them, it would be for rookies used. The latest being left-hander Chris Rusin, who on Tuesday (Aug. 21) allowed one run in five innings in a 5-2 loss to the Brewers in Milwaukee. He is the ninth Cubs pitcher to make his big-league debut this season.
* Speaking of Cubs pitchers, Matt Garza has been shut down for the rest of the season. Makes sense in that that’s pretty much what the team’s front office has done in fielding a team.
* Third baseman Kevin Youkilis for the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday in a 7-3 victory vs. the visiting New York Yankees at U.S. Cellular Field. It was his second one of the season at the homer-friendly ballpark. The other came when he was with the Boston Red Sox. The last time a player had a grand slam for and against the same team was 1952 when Don Lenhardt played for Detroit and Boston.
* Manager Ozzie Guillen and his Miami Marlins reportedly will visit his former employer, the Chicago White Sox, for an interleague series in May. Assuming Guillen still will have that position by that time.
* The possibility of Roger Clemens making a comeback — he is to pitch for Sugar Land Skeeters on Saturday in an independent Atlantic League game — prompted former Cubs PR maven Bob Ibach to posit the Houston Astros should sign him to boost attendance and pair him against Jamie Moyer in a battle of 50-year-olds. Ah, a throwback contest. Instead of steroids (not that he ever would consider using anything like that), Clemens would drink cups of coffee and take uppers? Now that would be old school.
News flash: The Chicago Sky lost a WNBA game. All right, maybe that’s not news. Especially considering the Sky (8-12) has lost seven in a row, including Tuesday’s 77-67 defeat vs. the New York Liberty (8-13) at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill.
Sylvia Fowles led the Sky with 18 points. Guard Epiphanny Prince exited the game with 4:51 left after she turned an ankle. Chicago native Cappie Pondexter had a game-high 25 points for the Liberty.
The Sky, which started the season 7-1 in its quest for the first postseason berth in franchise history, has road games at Atlanta (Aug. 22), Tulsa (Aug. 24) and Connecticut (Aug. 26) before its next home game Aug. 28 vs. Connecticut.
Pretty sure this isn't Dr. Bobby Brown.
If it’s Wednesday (which the calendar-watching department at elliottharris.com believes it is, based on the fact that yesterday was Tuesday and tomorrow is Thursday), then it must be the day before the weekly installment of “Sports & Torts” with co-hosts David Spada and Elliott Harris at noon Chicago time on talkzone.com. The guests of the highly acclaimed program (well, it is in the Spada and Harris households) will be Playboy Playmate and fantasy football expert Pilar Lastra and former New York Yankees player and onetime American League president (back in the days when the American and National Leagues actually were separate and had their own presidents) Dr. Bobby Brown.
Here is an interview with Pilar (not the one that will be on “Sports & Torts”) that your humble correspondent went to great lengths — all the way to Los Angeles — to conduct. Let the record show Pilar is as bright, witty and pleasant as she is gorgeous. Which is saying quite a bit.
OK, time for some more random video picked out by the video-research department at elliottharris.com. Which, come to think of it, means it’s not really random, is it? As if that’s a problem.
Here is Maxim Hometown Hotties semifinalist Justine Davis:
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