- Mark says that he's having a great off season in Atlanta working out and enjoying golf.
- DeRosa said he was in Disney World as a Cubs event with Ramirez and Soto during the Peavy rumors that he was involved in so it took his mind off it.
- DeRosa said that the Cubs had one of those lineups where it didn't matter where you were hitting because they were so deep.
- Mark hasn't gotten his wife anything for Christmas yet. DeRosa doesn't know what to get a women who has everything. He says Christmas is more about their daughter in the DeRosa house.
- DeRosa said that the pitcher is the most selfish guy on the baseball team out of any position.
- Mark thinks he will be playing every day at second base in 2009.
On Wednesday, David Kaplan was joined by former Cub Mikey Morandini on Sports Central:
- Mikey talked about being the head coach of Valparaiso High School and Mikey said he is having a blast with coaching.
- Morandini said he could see himself becoming a minor league coach some day.
- Kap and Mikey both think Rhino could be the guy to replace Lou as Cubs manager.
- Mikey would love to be a big league coach some day.
- Morandini said that he collects baseballs.
- Kap says Mikey was always one of the most fun guys to deal with.
- Morandini says that he can't help but follow the Cubs and says they're one of the elite ball clubs.
- He is looking forward to the Cubs Caravan.
- Mikey is going to miss Kerry Wood when the season starts, and says he can tell you every out of the 20 strikeout game.
- The toughest pitchers he every faced: Randy Johnson and Mariano Rivera.
