Transmogrified Tiger

I'll take a wild guess that the labels idiot, stupid and moron have been used over 100 times in the this thread. There's no decorum today. Hmmmm guess it's just your typical Neifi/Dusty thread. ;) Since Neifi being signed was announced, Hendry was called an idiot, stupid, or a moron 5 times total, by a total of 4 posters. Maybe even 4 and 3 if you don't consider this: "If Neifi Perez is our starting shortstop or second basemen next year, I might just have to take a season off of watching baseball. Just, jesus, how can you be so stupid? " to be calling him stupid. Without looking it up, I would wager that there are more people are calling the signing stupid then there are calling Hendry stupid. Calling a decision stupid and calling the person that made that decision stupid are two completely different things. Exactly.

I would like to go on record and say that if Furcal signs with the Cubs the ire on this board over his baseball performance will rival if not exceed that of Neifi F. Perez. I desagree with that. What aspect of his game do you think will draw the most ire? His offensive production, especially considering the amount of money he'll make.

I'll take a wild guess that the labels idiot, stupid and moron have been used over 100 times in the this thread. There's no decorum today. Hmmmm guess it's just your typical Neifi/Dusty thread. ;) Since Neifi being signed was announced, Hendry was called an idiot, stupid, or a moron 5 times total, by a total of 4 posters. Maybe even 4 and 3 if you don't consider this: "If Neifi Perez is our starting shortstop or second basemen next year, I might just have to take a season off of watching baseball. Just, jesus, how can you be so stupid? " to be calling him stupid.

I could be wrong, but hadn't Cedeno broke into the starting lineup before his injury last year? Cedeno got consecutive starts twice last year. I don't consider that breaking into the everyday lineup.

Well done.

With the Trib, that should be the equivalent of you or I finding 86 cents in the couch cushion. The Trib puts up a top 5 payroll, they aren't to blame. Assuming that 40 mil is correct, that would put the payroll upwards of 110 million.

Off the top of my head they're either going to have to sign those FA's for less than expected, or get some money for Abreu to be able to afford that. Those 5 are like 40 million.

Yeah, too bad you couldn't be on base that often, Neifi. I like my sig better. I do too. But to be fair, you misquoted him. He didn't say he will be on base 2-3 times. He said he could be. And on certain days, that will certainly be true. I copied it directly from an article earlier. They either changed it or it's at a different link. EDIT: Fuzzy math

Yeah, too bad you couldn't be on base that often, Neifi. I like my sig better.

How do you figure? Michigan won fair and square Carr complained and they unjustly added two seconds to the clock. Time doesn't stop when the team calls timeout, it stops when the official calls it. Michigan won the game on a play with one second left.

I bet he hates it though.

You've done this before. No one ever advocated that team any more than anyone advocated a team of C Blanco 1B Karros 2B Jose Hernandez SS Neifi 3B Lenny Harris LF Todd Hollandsworth CF Tom Goodwin RF Burnitz Yes they have. I'd really like to see where.

You've done this before. No one ever advocated that team any more than anyone advocated a team of C Blanco 1B Karros 2B Jose Hernandez SS Neifi 3B Lenny Harris LF Todd Hollandsworth CF Tom Goodwin RF Burnitz

I feel sorrier for us Cubs fans, who have to put up with a managment team that's apparently so abysmally stupid that it thinks Neifi Perez is more productive and valuable than Todd Walker. I don't think anybody in the Cubs organization was hiding the fact that they wanted to trade Todd Walker this winter. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but you couldn't watch a game on any channel where the announcers didn't mention how bad the Cubs wanted to improve defensively on the infield. Neifi as awful as he is offensively, does represent an upgrade defensively. However committing to Neifi, puts Hendry a position in which he must try to score big with a SS, CF, and RF. Otherwise the Cub's already low scoring offense is going to be in worse shape. Neifi played 150 games last year. He's at best treading water defensively, since he had a career year defensively. The Cubs were very good defensively this past year, 3rd in the NL in DER if memory serves. I don't want to pick a fight with you over your use of Stats, but this maybe on of those times that your citing of stats is useless. Anybody who watched a game last year knows that the Cubs were not good defensively. Just as anybody who watched the Cubs last year knows that Neifi played a good to great defensive SS. I agree that Neifi was a poor signing but to say Neifi is treading water defensively is utterly ridiculous. The numbers say the Cubs were a good defensive team last year. I'd rather trust that imperfect measure than my own selective memory, especially since I saw very little of other teams defensively. About Neifi treading water, I think you misconstrued what I was saying. Neifi is a good defender at short, and was great defensively last year. Therefore, him returning isn't an improvement, it's staying the same, treading water. Much like Lee coming back next year isn't an upgrade offensively, since he was already there all of last year.

I feel sorrier for us Cubs fans, who have to put up with a managment team that's apparently so abysmally stupid that it thinks Neifi Perez is more productive and valuable than Todd Walker. I don't think anybody in the Cubs organization was hiding the fact that they wanted to trade Todd Walker this winter. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but you couldn't watch a game on any channel where the announcers didn't mention how bad the Cubs wanted to improve defensively on the infield. Neifi as awful as he is offensively, does represent an upgrade defensively. However committing to Neifi, puts Hendry a position in which he must try to score big with a SS, CF, and RF. Otherwise the Cub's already low scoring offense is going to be in worse shape. Neifi played 150 games last year. He's at best treading water defensively, since he had a career year defensively. The Cubs were very good defensively this past year, 3rd in the NL in DER if memory serves.

That sounds far fetched. Really far fetched. But it's not unrealistic. Even though it's not out of the realm of possibility, I find it hard to believe that Hendry, who called Boras's bluff in the Brownlie negotiations at the risk of losing him, would fall for that type of ploy.

I had forgotten about D'Angelo. He would've been roughly a 54380129357 to the 34398th power better signing.

I wonder what Neifi will do for the talent portion of the contest. He's going to recreate Happy Gilmore's "happy place". He's got the body type and costume already.

The funny thing is that if CPatt was a FA & the Cubs signed him to a 2 yr 5 mil. contract, most people who have complained about the Neifi signing in this thread, would be very happy. The fact is Corey Patterson was much more of a liability to the Cubs possible success in 05'. Those people have favorites & ones they don't like no matter what they do on the field. It's childish & unknowledgable. Also, most of the complaining is pure speculation to begin with. No one on this board knows what JH is going to do the rest of the off-season. Rational people understand this & will @ least give JH the benefit of the doubt & see what the final product is opening day. I remain optimistic & really feel there will be some big moves by many teams including the Cubs this off-season. I guess I'm in the minority & I'm OK with that. Wow. First of all, that's false, many of the same people would be complaining if Patterson were signed to this deal. But since you insist on making these absurd comparisons between the two, here are the differences. Patterson is 5 years younger, Patterson plays a position where we don't have a major league ready player. Both were good defensively and both were among the worst hitters in the game(They may have been 1-2 by one metric). For Neifi, this was a career year. I'm going to repeat that. This pathetic offensive showing by Neifi was one of the best seasons of his career. This was the first season in which Patterson wasn't at least average for his position given age and playing time. That's why people are more prone to keep Patterson than Neifi. Because he's got age and past success on his side. But whatever, keep casting yourself as the voice of reason amongst the plague of pessimists, and accuse people of favoritism even though you've done the same thing you've accused people of. EDIT: Patterson and Perez are just under 7 years apart in age, not 5.

Are you sure they were talking about Bruce Miles and not Bruce Levine?

I love the new Jon. This thread needs some Neifury:

Definitely worth the click just to see the picture. EDIT: Google's translator gives the same impression you have, that it's 1 million in addition to the 2/5 deal.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/cubsfan_05/images.jpg Tell him I hate him. Why the hate? It's a joke. Anyone who's ever seen the Futurama episode where they go to the slurm factory knows what I mean. "Who are those creatures?" "Why, those are the Grunka Lunkas." "Tell them I hate them!"

I was going to make a joke about Macias playing third, but even his fielding percentage at 3B sucks(24 errors in 151 games!).

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/cubsfan_05/images.jpg Tell him I hate him.