Cards Call Up Timo Perez

[KyHen]

Timo Perez

 

I posted this on another board and I thought it was funny. Most of you will probably think it is lame though.

 

ST. LOUIS, MO -- The Cardinals will not let the Cubs out-do them. They just will not let it happen. On Friday, the team announced that it had called up outfielder Timo Perez from their minor league affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds.

 

"During the offseaon, the Cubs tried to pull a fast one on us by signing a crappy right fielder," Cardinals GM Walt Jocketty said, referring to the Cubs' signing of outfielder Jacques Jones. "I knew we couldn't be out-done, so we scrambled and signed a crappy right fielder of our own, [Juan] Encarnacion, to a similar deal."

 

While it looked like the teams were even, the Cubs knew they still had a heads-up in the rivalry.

 

"The news? It's a surprise. A surprising dissapointment, I guess," Cub manager Dusty Baker said Friday, in response to the Cardinals most recent roster move. "Now the Cardinals also have a vastly below-average, crappy, washed-up player with the last name Perez on their roster, it evens the score. Jocketty just will not be beat. I guess this is why they've held such a stranglehold on the division the last three years."

 

Perez, 31, has a career line of crap/sucky/ugly for his career.

 

It is speculated that Jocketty will attempt to add an overpaid, washed-up, immobile first baseman in the coming weeks, in an attempt to emulate GM Jim Hendry's acquisition of Phil Nevin. It remains to be seen which players he is targetting at this time.

 

"[brian] Daubach is an option," Jocketty said, "but we're not convinced that his production -- or, lack-there-of -- will be detrimintal enough to the club or not."