Oh Boy!

If the Sosa deal is making you happy or sad this is sure to make any Cub fan jump off a cliff...

He's still a free agent, but a source indicated the Cubs passed on having outfielder Jay Gibbons included in the pending deal with Baltimore because they are close to signing a free-agent outfielder.

Oh so that means the Cubs are hot on the heals of Magglio Ordonez? Umm no not exactly.

When the Cubs play their home opener at Wrigley Field, the guy running out to greet the fans in right field is likely to be Jeromy Burnitz. He might want to make sure he's wearing the proper uniform, as this would be his fifth team in the last five seasons.

We might have passed up Jay Gibbons, and traded Sammy Sosa, to only wind up with Jeremy Burnitz? Get me a rope someone.

"If that is true, and it probably is, it might be the craziest signing in years," one baseball executive said.

Could you ever conceive of the Cubs paying a team to take Sosa off their hands and then signing a drifter like Burnitz to replace him? In a year when they are shooting for the World Series, no less?

Stranger things have happened.