ToupeeOnFire

Dude, don't drag Ron Santo into Hendry and Baker's bucket of suck. He's just trying to stay sane like the rest of us would if we were forced to witness this abomination on a daily basis.

With the collection nancy speed demons that Hendry has collected, do you really think they'd do well in a brawl against Jenks/Konerko/Thome/Crede/etc.? Maybe they should hold footraces. I bet you the Cubs could beat them then. Or maybe a dance off.

That insinuates we've seen super Neifi before. This contract is probably his last unless Hendry extends him. We saw SuperNeifi™ during the first month of the season last year. Remember those halcyon days last April when Neifimania gripped an entire Cub nation?

I doubt it. But at least we are so multi-dimensional now and not relying on the home run.

im pretty sure dusty could take him in a fight quite easily Of course. He's got toothpicks to use as weapons. It wouldn't be close. I'd like to see Dusty start using frilled tooth picks. It could be a whole new look for him....daring and adventurous. http://www.polsteins.com/images/zoom/5/prod-0000935.jpg

Please explain why you think that the Cobs will score 5 runs against a pretty good pitcher, especially since they cant hit lefties if their lives depended on it. Team speed. With guys like Pierre and Hairston at the top of the order, we can score runs faster than you can blink an eye. GO CUBS! they have to get on first Speed doesn't slump, dude.

This game needs a beaning, and a brouhaha, and some fisticuffs.

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-0605190141may19,1,4297803.story June 13th possibly. I like this little nugget from the article... Womack gets released after hitting only .222 in 9 games. But Neifi, hitting .197, plays and plays and plays. 71 ABs and counting. And you wonder why the Reds are ahead of the Cubs in the standings.

Actually, I'm not sure he does. The options are Bynum, Theriot, Mabry and Jock. The only guy half-way decent in that group is Jock, and he doesn't hit lefties. You can't do much with the roster as currently constituted. Edit: I would give Theriot a shot over Neifi, however. The kid couldn't be any worse.

Buerhle lives and dies on the corners and low in the strike zone as well, if he's forced to get his pitches up, he's little more than a BP pitcher. That's presuming the Cubs take pitches. Highly doubtful.

Cedeno over Cintron? Maybe. Ok maybe two. Still look at all of those high numbers next to their obps. Current numbers notwithstanding, I'd take Ramirez over Crede.

Well, at least it should be small for both teams, right? Oh wait, that won't really matter because the Cubs won't lay off those pitches anyway.

This team just got done with a stretch of losing of 14 of 16 games, playing some of the worst baseball I've ever personally witnessed, and Hendry and MacPhail are griping about a beat reporter being critical? What planet are they on? Oh, that's right, injuries. And bad luck. After all, who'd of thought Juan Pierre would suck this much? And the normally reliable Neifi Perez hitting sub-.200? And Jacques Jones sporting a low OBP and an inabilitly to hit lefthanders (why do they struggle against lefties again?). Who could have known that the usually stellar Glendon Rusch would start serving up meatball after meatball? And Mark Prior and Kerry Wood getting injured, nobody could have seen that coming! It's all curses and vodoo, I tell ya. But seriously, this organization continues to embarass itself, on the field and off. It's stupid things like finally realizing to employ a left-handed batting practice pitcher after 2 years of struggling against left-handed pitching; the whole Sammy Sosa fiasco -- running down your own player and destroying his trade value in the process; the hush-hush secrecy regarding pitcher injuries (the rumors of Mark Prior being hurt are categorically untrue -- headline a couple of weeks later: Mark Prior sidelined with elbow soreness); infighting between broadcasters and players resulting in running a popular broadcaster out of town; trying to turn Corey Patterson into a lead-off hitter when his skill set suggests otherwise. Need I go on? It's amazing how quickly this thing went down hill. What started out as a young and talented team poised to contend for years to come (coming this close to getting into the World Series; putting up back-to-back above .500 seasons for the first time since the early 70s) has pretty much become a laughing stock. But don't cast blame on the unholy triumverate that is Dusty MacHenPhail, nobody could have seen this coming.

OK, maybe Neifi bunting in the 9th down 5-3 with runners on first and third and 2 outs wasn't Dusty's idea (although it wouldn't surprised me if it was). But Neifi Perez...in the line-up...batting 6th?!? Another new low.

I'm dying to hear what Ron Santo had to say about that.

WTF?!?!?

Ah, more sucky umpiring.

On the bright side, at least we cleared Pierre's spot in the line-up for the ninth.

And he swings at a pitch a foot inside. Wrigley fans, boo this guy. Please.

Just missed his 3rd RBI right there.

Who do we have on the bench still? Hairston, Bynum, and Blanco? I think our best bet is Z. Byum, dude. He's got like mad power.

I was fully expecting a base hit there. Nice to be wrong.

Insurance in case Neifi gets hurt.

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3rd hit of the game for Murton.