by Kent Sterling The hire of Rick Renteria by the Chicago Cubs was the result of a managerial search that resembled an archeological dig. Who would fans accept as a plausible successor to Dale Sveum, Lou Piniella, Dusty Baker, Jim Riggleman, Tom Treblehorn, Jim Essian, Don Zimmer, Herman Franks, Charlie Fox, Preston Gomez, Whitelockman, Elvin […]
by Kent Sterling Someone is going to accept the position as manager of the Chicago Cubs because team president Theo Epstein is going to offer enough money to make it difficult to refuse, but that person should know walking through the door that a promising career as a big league manager will end two years […]
by Kent Sterling On a Saturday night 10 years ago, I had a party. A houseful of people watched the Chicago Cubs throttle the Florida Marlins 8-3 at Pro Player Stadium to inch within one game of their first trip to the World Series in 58 years. When Jeff Conine grounded out to short against […]
by Kent Sterling Anyone surprised that Joe Girardi decided to stick with the New York Yankees is a moron. The only hope the Cubs of had of landing the only decent manager with any interest in the job had was that the Yankees would be so dissatisfied with an 85-win season that they might tell […]
by Kent Sterling Can you imagine a world where a manager like Joe Girardi given a choice between managing the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs? He can’t either. The delusions of mediocrity that invade the consciousness of Cubs fans every once in awhile, and visions of Girardi in Cubbie blue have provided the […]
by Kent Sterling Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein would like Cubs fans to believe that rebuilding is the road to winning, and that it takes five years. That the length of his contract is five years is purely coincidental. The St. Louis Cardinals just keep piling up trips to the postseason at a […]
by Kent Sterling Meetings happen all the time at businesses to uncover the solutions to problems. Rooms are filled with people of all stations at a company. The problem owner (the boss who convened the meeting for the purpose of finding a creative solution to his most troublesome worry) identifies the issue to be discussed, […]
by Kent Sterling There is some bad mojo going on at Wrigley Field. Fans and media claim that team president Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are pressing all the right buttons in trading veterans for farm system bulk, and that the youngsters left behind are being tutored to play better at the major league level. […]
by Kent Sterling It’s hard to know who to be more pissed off at – the idiots who continue to pay retail to watch horrible baseball in Wrigley Field, or the morally bankrupt ownership who continues to charge among the highest prices in baseball for a product they know is incapable of a reasonable facsimile […]
by Kent Sterling Not sure who should be blamed for the continued defensive idiocy of Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro, but it’s not manager Dale Sveum. Click Here to follow Kent on Twitter In today’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cardinals loaded the bases with one in the top of the fifth in a […]
