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
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
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 Josh Timmers on Feb 19, 2009 5:52 PM CST up reply actions
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
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
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
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??
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.
Wuertz and Hill, sure.
Pie… that one still hurts.
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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."
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.
1 –
They’re still the favorites in the NL Central, but they’ll be lucky to get 90 wins in 2009.
I’ll take it! Thanks buddy!
2 – Who the HELL names their kid “Dayn”?
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
a work?
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
Hopefully, someday, someone with the last name "Bramage."
"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
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