It’s official. According to the latest poll, Kosuke FUKnDONE is an official bust!

It was the perfect start to the perfect season. Everyone in Chicago was geared up for this years so called, “contenders”, in the NL Central. Zambrano pitched a great game but left with some kind of an injury. Wow, what’s new… A Cub with a minor injury. The game was knotted up at zeros going into the ninth inning. Where is that ferocious Cubbie offense at? Kerry Wood, the newly acclaimed closer came into the game to keep in scoreless. Ooooops, Wood gave up an immediate 3. Time to start the “closer questions” in Cubbyville again.

Fukudome gave the Cubs a little false hope in the bottom of the ninth by smashing a 3 run bomb. False hope is about all that was as the BrewCrew got to Bob Howry in the top of the 10th and won the game 4-3. o-1 start for the Cubs… It’s going to be a fun year everyone!

Oh no Cub Haters… I hate to see what you all are going to do with this name.  Find us a nickname please for the Cubs latest signing, Kosuke Fukudome.  This was a terrible deal for the Cubs in my opinion.  The guy is 30 years old, has no experience playing in the Majors, and they give him $12 mil per year for 4 years.  Ouch.  Typical Cub move though I guess.  Their strategy is clearly to outbid the rest of the league for mediocre talent.  According to ESPN 1000:

Fukudome was just intrigued by the Cubs, and liked the idea of being their first Japanese player.

I’d be intrigued too by the circus act the Cubs put out there each year.  How long before Cub faithful are calling for Fuku’s head?  Let’s take a look at some projections courtesy of RotoAuthority.

• They compiled averages from three different, reliable, projection sites.
• The average projection is around .288-21-81-95-7

That’s solid.  But $13mil per solid?  That is more than Derek Lee and I swear he can perform better than that.  In fact, those almost look like Jacque Jones numbers don’t they?

Fact is… BAD SIGNING! 

p.s. – It’s “koh-skay foo-koo-DOUGH-may” as Bleed Cubbie Blue points out.