Baseball notes

Apparently, the Cubs needed just one more significant injury to turn it's miserable season around. Beginning with the day that Mark Prior took a liner off his elbow, sidelining him for a couple of months, the Cubs are undefeated. They've won five in a row and are back to two games above .500

Frank Thomas finally joined the White Sox on Monday after a long injury rehab and went out of the game early with a new injury. That's nothing compared to Cleveland's Juan Gonzalez. Juan Gone has missed most of the last three years with various injuries, and hurt himself the first time he swung the bat this season. He injured his hamstring and is making yet another trip to the DL.

Buddy Bell wanted to return to managing in the worst possible way, and he has, taking over the Kansas City Royals. The Royals have the worst record in baseball at 14-37.