I mean… seriously. I cringe everytime the ball’s hit in his direction… IN LEFT FIELD. How could our brain trust ever think he was capable of playing CF?

Pulling that quad last April was the best thing that could have happened to our ballclub… or who knows how long he would’ve been misplaying well hit balls in CF for.

Jimmy Slagle played ten seasons – I loved this guy. He could cover ground. Much like Felix Pie.

We need Felix back!!!

I had forgot about him till now… thanks a lot.

And one we should never forget: Brant brown

That never did squat.

...I’d rather see Dome wearing it!

The negativity on this board really gets on my nerves sometimes. Just go with it and trust your club!

There is only positives in this. Except for if Carlos punches him in the eye.

That might be a positive, as well.

Seriously, I’d like to think of myself as being objective. But I can’t stomach this signing, only because he was a Cardinal and his demeanor on the field. I know many posters say that shouldn’t matter. But I will enjoy the cubs less now that he is on the team.

I like the move, there is something that Pie isn’t doing to adjust and with Johnson playing better than him the at bats aren’t there and the only way Pie is going to get better is by playing. Edmonds is a low risk move. We’re paying him a PRO RATED league minimum, its not a whole helluva lot. If the scouts and Greg Maddux are right and he was starting to swing the bat better than this move could look genius. Worst case senario Edmonds flops, Pie struggles in Triple A, Edmonds gets cut and Pie is back in the majors as a platoon player. I’d like to see PIe get the at bats, give Edmonds a chance to prove he still has some gas in tank and we run away with the division:)

why would we bat edmonds fifth and not soto? has soto not shown that he takes walks and should be a table setter for a guy like edmonds, who is normally swing and a miss, or swing and hit it a long way?

if lou bats edmonds fifth, and soto sixth, lou is proving once again he is clueless when it comes to filling out a lineup card.

the thought of moving soto down that far in the order makes me want to throw up.

Don’t any of you become exposed to that nasty black mold in a sick building. You end up really screwing up your immune system and becoming pan-allergenic and permanently reactionary to mold. My joke is that the reason they have wild fires out here is that there is no mold to make great soil, the stuff just dries up and becomes an accelerate—-trouble is you can’t grow anything either.

This turned out to be an informative and funny string to distract the angry mob about Edmunds. The moral of this post is Edmunds is merely fleeting…just wait a few months and I promise you he will be on the pile of CF memories. Actually when you look at it all if you could get Pierre for a reasonable price he would look pretty good there even with his “weak sister arm strength”, he is left handed, could bat second and at least ably catch the ball while running the bases. But he is far too expensive.

Now as for Pie (and Cedeno and also Hill), there are few genuine CF’ers out there, funny thing is two LA teams have two each under big contracts, actually LAA has three. Seattle has a RF’er playing CF. All in all there is but a handful, and less who bat left handed. SS is another concern as are left handed starters. Developing players so they can play at a MLB level every time out is tough—-more mentally and in the team concept and why teams like veterans. Young players have to overwhelm the league with talent to stick, and Pie has not. Cedeno appears to be on the cusp but Theriot is saying no everyday.

derosa can get on base in front of him. prove yourself edmonds. this “veteran treatment” is counterproductive.

He is replacing an 8 hitter put him there. I dont mess with the top 7 right now AT ALL.

One thing is it appears that Edmund’s is tardy on fireballer…so don’t play him against might FB’ers but those who throw soft….by all means.

Second will be not to wear him down for this acquisition is as much about September and October as it is to solve the situation in that it improves the bench and allows the coaches to coach the game and not try to bring along a player who is not ready yet.