I seem to remember Otis Nixon doing the same thing to end another World Series for the Braves several years back. THAT is more painful that Neifi's bone headed play in a regular season game in May.

The Cubs are an embarrassing laughingstock. At least the Royals don't expect to win. Now they've got Wood back. Typical of this pitiful organization, their big savior is a guy that's never done anything all that impressive anyway....even in the 11 games that he has been healthy in his career. Oh yeah, he struck out 20 Astros one game. Yeah, the Astros have never had anyone who would chase that big breaking ball down and away; quite an accomplishment there. Maybe someday Prior will come back from vacation just in time to get hurt again, and Dusty Baker can cry racism if a pigeon takes a dump on Ramirez. I don't think that franchise will ever have a good season again. Ever.

OK ARod u r off the top.. ur slap was atleast a try to win the game for Yanks..

Perez takes the cake coz not only he made a little leaguer look more mature than THAT.. but he also loses the game in the home stadium. PRICELESS

The third baseman was back, and it was something that maybe "could" have worked, but even the bunt was bad. If there are men on in scoring position, I would rather have Zambrano pinch hit, then to see Neifi come up to bat. Isnt he the worst in all of baseball with men in scoring position?

Maybe he's just admitting that he can't hit.

It's always the mental stupidities that kill more than the physical ones. Now I see what my coach in highschool has been saying all along.

I was at the game. Sitting in the stands everyone was first in shock and then very angry. I listened to a white sox fan laugh like there was no tomorrow. THis is the all time low point for me as a Cub fan.

Those of us in Pittsburgh are assuming you'd like Jeromy Burnitz back.

Make an offer.

"There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help."

Please don't send Burnitz back. We have enough guys that strike out 140 times a year.

Gee, wouldn't you Cubbies like to have Miggy now?

Nixon was trying to get on base as I recall, there weren't runner's on.

id rather garciappara back. burnitz? no sorry Pirates. the cubbies are doing horrible and possibly the worst theyve done in years, yet.....there still ahead of the pirates

The post about how even though the Cubs are bad, they are still ahead of the Pirates got me thinking; if you merged the two worst teams in each league, say the Cubs and Pirates in the NL, and D-Rays and Royals in the AL, could they compete with the best, or would it just be twice the ineptitude? I cant see much promise in taking the "best players" on the Royals (uhhhh...is Grenike back yet?) and combining them with the best from the Devil Rays, and same for the Cubs and Pirates. What do you think JL?

I can't be for certain if there were two outs or not, but I'm pretty sure there were when back in Game 1 of the '03 or '04 ALDS between the A's and Red Sox, the A's in the bottom of the 13th inning or so had someone much slower than Neifi (Hatteberg, I believe) pull a suicide squeeze to win the game.
If you lose on that play, it becomes a laughing stock, if you win it becomes a classic.

Trip 60:
The Cubs-Pirates wouldn't be bad. The Cubs could use Jason Bay and Jack Wilson, at the least, as well as Zach Duke and Oliver Perez. But what can the Royals offer to any other team, even the Devil Rays? The only guy who would help Tampa is Alex Gordon, and he's in the minors.
-- JL

Who would think that this year would make me miss Corey Patterson. Come back Corey!

If you really want to laugh at the whole thing, check out all the BS on chicagocubs.com. After every game they blow, there's inevitably something written about how it wasn't anyone's fault, and about how the Cubs are really hitting the ball hard (or bunting the ball hard), and just wait until Wood and Prior get back. But the earlier post was right, Wood hasn't ever really done anything to start with.

"The Cubs are like your kids, you don't love them because they're good; you love them because they're yours."

good god. the cubs should switch places with their AA affiliate. cubs fans are a pitiful bunch, all ranting incoherently and spouting off sentences that end or begin with 'in 1945' or '1908'. cripes. go away.

Funny nobody's said it yet so I guess I'll be the first to place the Cub's enduring epithet on this season's headstone ... hey, there's always next year.

the cubs will never win a world series title in my lifetime the redsox just got purely lucky after trailing 3 games to none in the 2004 alcs they went from redsucks to redsox that year i will guarantee the braves will start winning in the postseason and start winning world series rings way sooner than the cubs will because there is no way the braves will keep running out of gas every october and their glory days will bounce back towards the bravos very soon with these young and very talented ballplayers

The bunter on the suicide squeeze by the A's against the Red Sox during the 2004 division series was Ramon Hernandez (catcher), who somehow miraculously chugged it up the first base line in time to be safe... One of the best games I've seen live (especially when the A's fans kept shouting "You suck" at Pedro earlier in the game)...

That was a classic. As for Neifi...the man on third wasn't running...so he was probably as surprised as the rest of us...

Anyone watch the Angels blow it in the 9th when they had "3 for 3" catcher Napoli bunt into a double play on a suicide squeeze with a man on third and 1 out? That was fun... (I think Napoli has bunted 4-5 times his ENTIRE BASEBALL CAREER)...

Continuing on the ridiculous claims of chicagocubs.com, Marshall looks to keep Cubs rolling (3 game win streak). Also, if you check out their top plays archive under multimedia, the list is pathetic. Ex. On June 7th, the only video clip is two double plays turned by Cubs (WOW!!!). Not many highlights it seems.