Pressure will be on Ramirez to step up

Every club has its doomsday scenario -- the one player it mostfears losing to the disabled list. For the Cubs, that one player isAll-Star first baseman Derrek Lee.

Lee will go on the disabled list today for the first time in hiscareer, the victim of a fractured right wrist that is expected to barhim from the lineup for eight to 10 weeks. When he is set to returnby mid- to late June, who knows where the Cubs -- who have weatheredthe losses of pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood -- will havepositioned themselves in a competitive National League Central?

The moment Los Angeles Dodgers speedster Rafael Furcal slammedinto Lee in a collision at first base Wednesday …