Monday, January 5, 2009

Miiiiiill--toooooooooonnnn!

So it's official, the Cubs are getting a highly qualified DH. Wonderful. I find it really amazing that the number one concern I've heard expressed about this signing is his temper/personality. Don't get me wrong, if my parents named me after the Monopoly guy, I'd probably rather piss on you than look at you too.

Yes he's got good numbers. Yes he led the AL in OBP last year. Yes he'll wig out if anyone start Jaques Jonesing him. I'm totally not worried about that. Here's the little factoid I'm worried about.

He played 20 games in Right Field last year! 20 games. For the non-mathematically inclined, that's 12% of games last season. That would be 2/27ths of last season. And Wrigley Field is supposed to be one of the hardest RF's to play.

But hey. I'm sure it'll be fine. Who needs an actual right fielder who's a consistent left handed power bat (cough cough) Abreu (cough cough)...

But heck. What do I know? I was begging JH to sigh Barry Zito a couple years ago...

Welcome to Chicago Milt. Don't piss us off, or we'll never let you forget it...not even for a minute.

2 comments:

The CyberWeasel said...

Dude. Milton Bradley is not the name of the Monopoly guy! It's the name of a game company and its original founder. Both are now owned by Hasbro. But Monopoly is under Parker Brothers.

MGb said...

Thanks for the history lesson, but I think you're missing the point. For reference see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sarcasm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a