Finally, some interesting news

Time for another run-down of the Cubs.com news

Much better day in camp news-wise, Muskat had some good stuff today. She made up for it with a piece on DeRosa, that included the following

DeRosa has watched all of Johns' performances, but he's not helping pick out the songs.

That's the essence of it.

There were some real nuggets in the Notes today.

Piniella is considering ... a 3-4-5 combination of Kosuke Fukudome, Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez

Sounds like a good idea at first, but, no, I suspect Dance Fever's scrappy play is tempting Lou.

we can bunch up all our speed

Enough with the Theriot at the top insanity, please. Remember, you can't spell scrappy without crap.

I guess this is what Lou's looking at - not bad, all things considered

Soriano
Theriot
Fukudome
Lee
Ramirez
DeRosa
Soto
Pie

I wonder if they'll consider Soto in the 6th spot. Or Pie moving up if he figures out what a strike zone looks like.

Jose Ceda has a chance to stick, and Billy Williams had this to say about Carlos Marmol

"If you can hit him, you'll make the team"

One of my co-workers and I had a discussion a couple months back about Dempster's move to the rotation (we'll see about that). We figured it was a good thing, in one way. At the games the past few years, by the time he has come in, there were no more beer sales. Now, if he starts, you can drink off the after-effects for several innings.

Dempster ... [will] start the Cactus League opener Feb. 28 against San Francisco

Stock the cooler.