At Some Point, We're Just Going to Have to Say That Neifi Can Hit

Alex Ciepley at Cub Town starts to consider something that increasingly looks like it's going to have to be addressed: "At what point does an exclamation point shift from being an ironic, derisive form of punctuation into a celebratory accent? Derek and I have, for a while now, referred to Neifi Perez as Neifi!, in homage to the popular spelling of Seattle's Ichiro!, a truly magnificent player. Is it possible that the slight implied in typing out N-e-i-f-i-! has inspired our cruddy utility infielder to turn from Superscrub to Superstar? . . . . more