FoxSports' Perry (surprise) rips the Cubs

I'm not sure what the Cubs ever did to this guy, but he never seems to miss an opportunity to rip them. In this article, he says they had the 5th worst off-season, and will be lucky to win 90 games. Certainly, they made some moves that could backfire, but lucky to win 90? In this division?

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Perry is a Cardinals fan.

That ought to answer your question.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Feb 19, 2009 1:22 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The sum total of his analysis...

…of just about every team is, “Well, they lost _________, so they had a terrible off-season and they’re going to suck.”

How he expects anyone to take him seriously when he’s trying to encapsulate a team’s off-season in less than one-hundred words is beyond me. And this is especially true for the Cubs, who (as we all well know) made a number of high-risk, high-reward changes.

"You've got to earn winning your division. We won more games than anybody in the National League last year, and we're going to have a target on our back, so we've got to be ready.'' - Lou Piniella, 2/17/09

by dat cubfan daver on Feb 19, 2009 1:34 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Perry is sabermagician on steroids

I stopped reading him after about three columns of his dribble. Yet another pastie-skin clown who has little practical perspective on the sport of baseball and spends WAYYY too much time on the computer down in the basement.

by BLou on Feb 19, 2009 1:34 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

He's a sabermatrician on stupid pills

He allows his Cardinal bias to affect his analysis. Don’t go knocking all sabermatricians. Baseball Prospectus just released their predicted standings and they have the Cubs winning 95 games—most in the NL.

by Josh77 on Feb 19, 2009 5:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Did George Sr.

perscribe the pills?

Los Cachorros!

by Laven on Feb 20, 2009 8:35 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Rec'd...

If only because looking at Perry’s publicity shot, he really is the stereotype.

by Damen Jackson on Feb 19, 2009 6:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The word is drivel

not dribble. There seems to be widespread confusion about this.

Although, Perry probably does dribble, open-mouthed, while typing his content-free analysis…

"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano

by JohnM on Feb 19, 2009 6:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe it's a side effect

of the steroids.

"I've got an idea...an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about." ~Peter Griffin

by Goodie1969 on Feb 19, 2009 8:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

One definition

Of drivel is: to let saliva dribble from the mouth. It may just be that people use ‘dribble’ more often than drivel, thus dribble has become the norm.

Similar to the phrase “for all intents and purposes”. Most people say “for all intensive purposes”, and now that seems to be the norm??

by DMCub on Feb 20, 2009 8:09 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Michael Wuertz...

Was one of our best setup men? Really?

Someday we'll go all the way...

by CubsBullsBears on Feb 19, 2009 1:53 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I gotta say, I agree with most of what he said

But the core of the team was strong enough to handle what he, and others, view as bad moves. Ive grown to love the Bradley signing, I think Fontenot can handle second full time.

I think they gave up Wuertz for very little, they had no use for Hill or Pie, so those are a wash.

What we dont know is if those same moves wouldve been made had we had an owner in place in the fall. Adding Bradley while keeping DeRosa/Wuertz wouldve been nice, I think Hill and Pie wouldve been jettisoned regardless

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Feb 19, 2009 4:16 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Wuertz and Hill, sure.

Pie… that one still hurts.

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by D98 on Feb 20, 2009 10:57 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

remember this

the best part is holding sportswriters accountable….they usually say things like you actually took me seriously?

Piniella: "This is a tougher job than I thought it would be, I'm going to be honest with you."

by Ivy Walls on Feb 19, 2009 4:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Right.

If they didn’t intend for us to take them seriously, why did they write it in the first place?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Feb 19, 2009 4:51 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

My favorite part is...

the Brewers aren’t even on that list. How does anything anyone did compare to losing Sabathia and Sheets? Then, not getting a draft pick from Sheets (likely signing after the draft) and getting only a 2nd round pick for losing Sabathia couldn’t have helped any.

by CubFan81 on Feb 19, 2009 5:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs