And Now For Something Completely Different

• He was calling for wholesale change from Team president to manager.
• He was saying that the orginzational philosphy for pitchers has to be changed because so many young pitchers get hurt in the Cubs system and he says that doesn't seem to happen to other clubs.
• He brought up Dusty's "clogging the bases" quotes about OBP. Rightfully slamming it as ridiculous.
• He ranted about Jaque Jones not being able to hit the cut off man or throw decently. At this point Waddle did pipe up and start saying that Jones has put up some offensive numbers. But Kaplan seemed to discount this because Jones not hitting the cut off man isn't playing "winning baseball".
• He asked why Ronny Cedeno isn't playing 2nd base every day. Kaplan said that when they traded for Isturis that everyone in the cubs management team told him that Cedeno was going to be their 2nd baseman next year. So when Isturis goes down, instead of keeping Ronny at 2nd to learn the position during meaningless games they move him back to short because "it wouldn't be fair to the pitchers".
• He lamented Dusty continuely running out Neifi to play while he was hear instead of young guys like Theriot. In fact he went through each of Theriot's call ups and how many at bats he got during each.
• He said the worst thing for the Cubs was not that Cub fans were picking up the phones and ranting angrily on their radio show every night. It was that most Cub fans had become apathetic about the team which was much worse.
• The overall point he articulated was that the Cubs didn't seem to have any orginzation wide plan and that they had to get a management team in here with a plan or nothing will change.
  

To all Tiger fans going to this weekend's games against the Angels:

Show Dombrowski and Leyland how unhappy you are with Neifi Perez by booing him everytime he steps on the field. This was one of the worst trades in team history, worse than any deal Randy Smith ever made including Phil Nevin for Nick Skuse. Perez is killing this team, and the powers that be need to be taken to the woodshed over this one.

Leyland's love affair with Neifi Perez needs to be broken up. Perez s.uc.ks, what does Omar Infante need to do to prove that he should be our starting 2nd baseman until polanco returns. He was worked his A$$ off filling in for Polanco all year and he had 2 hits today with a HR off Johnson in yankee stadium. He can hit, perez cannot.

neffi perez is terrible! at least 2 of the 1st 4 runs the yanks scored today would not have been scored with a decent shortstop. the a-rod bloop would have been caught by carlos g if he was at short. perez also cut off thames' throw to 2nd on the abreau (i think it was abreau) double that would have gotten the runner if it wasn't cut off. perez has been bad at 2nd base as well. his range seems limited, and he bobbles balls all the time. he doesn't look like a gold glover (or even a wooden glover for that matter). he has no bat. why does leyland pigheadedly continue to force him into the lineup