Cubs Mixing It Up Like It's June

MARYVALE, Ariz. -- Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade will hold a team meeting in the wake of a dugout confrontation Wednesday between pitcher Carlos Silva and third baseman Aramis Ramirez. Quade, who will hold the meeting on Thursday, also said there would be no discipline handed down from him. "You've got two pissed off people," Quade said after the 12-5 loss to the Brewers. "It was a brutal first inning with plenty of blame to go around, and people get frustrated. Maybe that's what we freaking need. Maybe we need to get pissed off. "I mean it's Day 4 of spring training. I got no business getting all fired up on four days of work. But it's getting to the point where that was really tough to watch."

I'm a little over baseball players getting into these "scuffles." The only scuffling going on is their feet tapping against the concrete as they get separated from each other. It's always a lot of yelling and finger pointing and gestures toward the man regions. Just not for me. If you're gonna fight then fight. Don't talk about what you're gonna do to that person, just fucking do it. Hockey players do it right.  It's like a simple flick of the eyebrow and it's game on. The gloves shake, the helmet gets ripped off and the next you know, you're two front teeth are lying on the ice in a puddle of blood and the crowd is going ape shit. .