Kosuke Fukudome is coming to the Cubbies. He is a power hitting, left handed batting, right fielder which is just what the Cubs need. He has 192 homers and a .305 batting average and .397 on-base percentage over nine seasons with the Chunichi Dragons. He is also supposed to be a decent fielder. If he pans out, the Cubs have a solid roster. I imagine the lineup to look something like this:
1. Soriano, LF
2. Theriot, SS
3. D. Lee, 1B
4. Rami, 3B
5. Fukudome, RF
6. DeRosa, 2B
7. Soto, C
8. Pie, CF
9. Pitcher
Pretty good lineup. If the pitching can play like they did last year, they should be fine.
Seriously, how can you lose when you have a guy on your team named FUKUDOME!!!! It's a marketing manager's dream!!!!
On a side note, the Cubs released Mark Prior. Hopefully he can bounce back somewhere but too bad that such a phenom that looked like he had such potential has had the injuries he has had. Kind of ironic too as alot of people said his delivery was perfect much like Tom Seaver; however, he has still had are problems.
Well, at least we have FUKUDOME!!!!!!
4 comments:
I don't understand...What does his name imply? Does he want to "F you" or is he saying "Do me!"
Either way, it's not quite "hard n' deep."
These Japanese stars always seem to do well in MLB, but not quite as well as they did back home. Regardless, he should be able to give the Cubs a bit more firepower.
Wrigley should be renamed the FUK-U-DOME because they are going to hit pitchers Hard-n-Deep.
Later Dongs!
There is no implying. He is saying F YOU!!!! DO MEE!!! And DO MEEE HARD, DEEPIE!!!!
I think it is pretty simple to understand why they don't do as well in the big leagues for a couple of big reasons:
1. the best talent is here in the U.S.
2. it must be tough to adjust to the language and cultural barriers. Not to mention the adjustment to the time differences. I also think that it is a longer season here in the U.S.
Later Dicks!
Really the reason they don't do as well in the Bigs here in the States is because they aren't all hopped up on "the Juice."
After a year or two they figure out where to score some and they end up fine.
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