Cubs Player Damaged Dodger Stadium Visitors' Dugout After Loss
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Writer Says Piniella (r) "Better Know"
Which Cubs Player Damaged Dugout |
A Cubs player Saturday at Dodger Stadium, "moments after the final out" of Dodgers-Cubs Game Three and the Cubs' subsequent elimination from the playoffs, took something "large and hard, like a shoe or bat or sledgehammer, and busted a fair-sized water pipe at the back of the visitors' dugout," according to Rick Telander of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. Water "gushed out, and very quickly the floor of the area leading into the locker room was flooded." But the damage was "not caught on video or cell phone, nor was it spotted by any electronic broadcast member," so the incident was forgotten and "never really documented." Before the team bus left the stadium, Cubs GM Jim Hendry reportedly told a Dodgers official, "Find out how much it cost, and we'll pay for it." But Telander writes there is the "smell of cover-up to the thing, and the vandalism is, at the very least, part of perhaps the most bizarre and inexplicable fall from grace in the Cubs' curse-riddled history." Cubs Dir of Media Relations Peter Chase, asked who was responsible for the incident, said, "I honestly can't tell you. I don't know who did it." While none of the Cubs players "hinted that any of them had done ... criminal damage to a private building," Telander writes Hendry and Cubs manager Lou Piniella "better know." Telander: "If they think they have control of this team, they better know" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 10/8).
DODGERTOWN: In L.A., Alexandra Zavis reports the L.A. City Council yesterday "unanimously approved a resolution calling for federal legislation to rename the area around Dodger Stadium" as "Dodgertown." The resolution "calls for the postmaster general to redraw a ZIP Code boundary encompassing 276 acres of Dodgers property." L.A. City Councilmember Ed Reyes said that the new designation "would affect only Dodgers property." Zavis notes the initiative "coincides with a $500[M] makeover expected to be completed by the stadium's 50th anniversary in 2012" (L.A. TIMES, 10/8).
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