by Kent Sterling My son grew up playing basketball and baseball against Drew Storen, and it’s been fun to watch him become a very successful major league pitcher for the Washington Nationals. There must have been something in the water in Brownburg as several guys in that age group have become outstanding professional players. Lance […]
by Kent Sterling Gordon Wittemyer does great work covering the Cubs for the Chicago Sun-Times. He’s about as down the middle as it comes for honest coverage of a team that appears more and more to be lacking leadership at the top. There was good news and bad news from the top of the Cubs […]
by Kent Sterling They were the three best managers of their generation, and their careers as major league managers almost perfectly dovetail one another. It’s entirely appropriate that Bobby Cox, Tony LaRussa, and Joe Torre will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame together on July 27, 2014. They are ranked third, fourth, […]
by Kent Sterling The very best thing that could happen for the Seattle Mariners is that 31-year old second baseman Robinson Cano flunks his physical of Monday, and will be forced to pass on the ludicrous cash they are willing to pony up for his services. It’s not that Cano won’t be worth $25 million […]
by Kent Sterling The question of when the fruits of the Theo Epstein regime will begin to bear fruit is beginning to be asked somewhere other than kentsterling.com, and that’s a good thing. The pass Epstein has gotten based upon nothing more than his ability to deconstruct a team whose roster had been loaded with […]
Alex Rodriguez Might Be a Guilty Creep, But He’s Working the System Like a Pro – Just Like I Did
by Kent Sterling A-Rod has done what all guilty as hell reprobates should do, but many times don’t have the level of character bankruptcy necessary to pull off – he has taken complete control of the narrative. What he pulled yesterday in his arbitration hearing is eerily similar to Otter’s “Animal House” speech in front […]
by Kent Sterling Here is what super-selfish super agent Scott Boras said to the media about the Chicago Cubs at the annual baseball general managers meeting that I found super annoying. “You’re (the Cubs) developing the infrastructure, but fans don’t come to see seats, grass, cement. They come to see players. They’ve done a great […]
by Kent Sterling Getting the call right 100% of the time rather than 99% of the time is not worth the trouble – or more importantly, the time. Imagine the director of a “Death of a Salesman” stage production being able to stop the performance in the middle of the second act to correct a […]
by Kent Sterling Nothing lasts forever, so the Chicago Cubs likely being carried on another television station in Chicago is part of the evolution of life, business, and media. The Cubs exercised an exit clause to opt out of their deal, and so unless WGN-TV can bid successfully for the rights to broadcast a schedule […]
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 […]
