Hearing the news that the Chicago Cubs are hiring Dale Sveum as their new manager hit me harder than the cold Chicago air when I walked out of my house today. I loved everything Theo Epstein and the crew had done up until now. The Sveum hiring is a yawn, and makes you wonder what they saw in him that the Milwaukee Brewers didn't. They passed him over twice for the managerial job, including after he took over as the interim manager in 2008 when the Brewers fired Ned Yost with 12 games left in the season. He went 7-5 and ...
As we patiently wait for the Theo Epstein hostage watch to play out while Boston figures out what they can extort from the Cubs, there has been some alarming thoughts on current lame-duck manager Mike Quade.
Some baseball "experts" are saying he might stay and finish out his contract next year. They are even making arguments for him staying, and giving reasons why it makes sense.
The thought is since he's under contract, and Theo will have a lot of things to work on when he gets in, it might just be better to let him finish out his contract and bring in a new ...
Listening to Chicago Cub manager Mike Quade talk is like listening to a broken record. You keep hearing the same meaningless message again and again.His focus is on playing his veterans, to whom he thinks he owes something, despite those veterans being mainly responsible for the team's current fifth-place status.In the Sunday Chicago Tribune he explained his thinking: "They deserve the opportunity; they don't deserve to be shelved, and I don't think we're going to be successful in a lot of different areas if I shelve all those guys."Let me repeat: They are in fifth place in the division. Does ...
Horrifying news broke this afternoon for Chicago Cub fans with the announcement that Player Personnel Director Oneri Fleita had his contract extended. Knowing that he was a Jim Hendry guy, you would think he would likely be out when the Cubs hired a new general manager. With this move, owner Tom Ricketts just put the kibosh on any of the big name GM's being bandied about coming to the Cubs. Do you think they're going to want to be told who they have to employ? What was he thinking? The timing is crazy, just like waiting until July 22 to fire ...
With September here, it's only a month away from the Cubs starting the only season that matters to them this year—hunting season for a new general manager. And according to all reports, Cub owner Tom Ricketts is hunting big game. You keep hearing Andrew Friedman, Brian Cashman, Theo Epstein and Billy Beane's names thrown out there. Cashman and Friedman will be available once the season is over, while Epstein has a year left on his contract, and Beane owns a piece of the A's and is signed through 2014. Epstein is an intriguing figure. Having broken the Bambino's curse, would ...
Everybody's jumping on the bandwagon to bash Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano for cleaning out his cubicle and saying he was retiring after last night's loss to the Atlanta Braves. But as usual, the hysterical masses have it all wrong.
The Cubs and manager Mike Quade quit on him last night when they left him in the game when he clearly had nothing. Whether it was to embarrass him or save the bullpen, he should not have been left in for the thumping he was subjected to.
There wasn't even a pitcher warming up until he gave up the second of back-to-back homers in the fifth ...
The Cubs won another game Thursday, and I can't help but think how harmful that is for the future of the team. Winning now means nothing! Last year, the Cubs let a hot finish sucker them into keeping things generally intact, and selecting a manager to run the team who has no business in a major league dugout. Now that they have won nine of their last eleven games, I'm seeing the same thing happening again, and this madness needs to end now! Jim Hendry recently said they were only a few moves away from contending next year, and Alfonso Soriano ...
Finally, after a dismal first season as the Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade is getting some criticism in the media, but it's always prefaced by saying what a nice guy he is. The former Cub and current Cincinnati Reds manager was a nice guy too, but the Chicago media ran him out of town. Why? Was it because of race? The media never failed to jump on him and make fun of comments he made such as him saying he thought Latin or African-American athletes performed better in the heat of summer than Caucasian players. Hearing a manager say that may ...
If Thursday night's Chicago Cubs game against the Florida Marlins was any indication of what we have to look forward to in the final 67 games of the season, their games should be on Comedy Central instead of Comcast SportsNet. Embattled manager Mike Quade kept up his mantra after the All-Star break when asked what the Cubs need to do moving forward, "Play better, execute better, pitch better, hit better. We just have to be better," he told the Chicago SunTImes. How about managing better? That's the mantra of everyone in town, from the fans, beat writers and columnists, Cubs' TV color analyst Bob ...
After last Tuesday's loss to the last place Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano responded to a question in the post-game press conference about the manager not being fond of him breaking bats over his leg after striking out saying, "What manager?"Zambrano's tirade after Sunday's sixth loss in a row by the Cubs, after back-to-back walk-off home runs by Albert Pujols was not a surprise. He has no respect for the manager, and the question I ask is, "Can you blame him?""Big Z" called out the team after the game."We play like a Triple-A team. This is embarrassing. Embarrassing ...
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