Chicago Cubs Baseball

Sammy Sosa’s like a bad penny when it comes to Chicago Cubs baseball.

You know the kind. No matter how many times you make change, at the end of the day you find that same beat-up penny in your pocket. After trying to get rid of it so many times, pretty soon you just ignore it and hope it goes away.

Except it doesn’t.

Sammy’s the same way. Except in this case, it’s the Cubs’ pocket he appears in, shiny as ever on the outside and remaking himself to seem far more valuable than the plug nickel he was worth in 2005.

So how ironic was it, Wednesday night, when Sosa launched his 600th career homer against his former team with the team which whom he began his career? But there it was in the fifth inning - one more pop and hop from the guy who helped make steroids in baseball a topic of conversation.

Funny what a couple of years away from your old team makes. Following the blast, Sosa evidently believed his absence from the limelight somehow has made the Cubs’ hearts fonder for their former teammate.

‘No matter what happens, all my legacy was in Chicago,” said Sosa, who waved at the Cubs’ dugout as he rounded the bases. ”I spent 13 years with Chicago and put up some beautiful numbers. No matter where I play, if I play against the Chicago Cubs, they will root for me.”

Besides home run power, Sammy has never been short on PR. His memory - well, that’s another story for another congressional hearing.

He is right about one thing: his legacy is in Chicago. Among other things it includes a corked bat, going AWOL on the last day of the season and a subsequent demolishing of his boom box by a teammate. And that’s without even mentioning the other stuff.
Yeah, Sammy. I don’t know why the Cub wouldn’t still love ya. Like a bad penny.