The Official Dusty Baker Pink Slip Waiting Room.

[erik316wttn]

I'll bet a month of premium with the first person who takes me up on it that Dusty will survive the break.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Why does nobody in the media understand the concept that it can stunt a team's long term development to have a manager fighting for his job despite being out of the playoff race?

 

I keep hearing everyone on TV and the radio say that there's no point in firing Baker now and hiring and interim manager, but that the Cubs should just wait until the end of the season and make a change then. Dusty Baker is bad enough for a team, but a lame duck Dusty Baker is even worse!

[FergieJ31]

I'll bet a month of premium with the first person who takes me up on it that Dusty will survive the break.

 

Teams avoid making big announcements during the ASB as an unwritten rule, but even if you extend your 'Dusty survives' time frame to a week from today I'd still be on your side. I don't see Dusty getting fired unless (until?) they go into another long funk, 5-6 game losing streak at least.

[biittner77]

Isn't it ironic that Hendry supposedly was waiting for a win streak that never happened to announce Baker's contract extension and now he might be waiting for the team to lose some games so he can fire him.

 

If he doesn't fire Baker immediately, he needs to publicly acknowledge that the season is over and that they are going to start re tooling for next year. That takes the pressure off Baker to run Zambrano, Eyre and Howry out there until they need surgery. It also makes playing Nevin and Perez on a regular basis inexcusable.

[Andy]

I'm noncommittal. On the one hand there has to be at least a grain of truth in all these rumors. On the other hand...this is Jim Hendry.

[CubinNY]

:ball: :whistle:

 

I'm waiting.

 

Really and truely, if Hendry doesn't plan on re-uping Dusty he should do everyone a favor and end this soap opera.

[C.C.]

I feel like a idiot defending baker in 2004-2005. :?

[daske17]

I feel like a idiot defending baker in 2004-2005. :?

 

Listen, we all make mistakes. I remember thinking the Cubs should have signed Omar Daal in 2003.

 

The important thing is that we don't hold it against you.

[Soul]

Since Dusty's job is now "safe," then we can only assume this is an acceptable level of performance for the Cubs.

 

 

Aren't you glad Daddy raised (ehem.....enslaved....ehem) you as a Cub fan?

[Andy]

Since Dusty's job is now "safe," then we can only assume this is an acceptable level of performance for the Cubs.

 

 

Aren't you glad Daddy raised (ehem.....enslaved....ehem) you as a Cub fan?

No one raised me a Cubs fan. I chose this life of misery. No one to blame but myself.

[Laura]

Still waiting. I have no hope that Hendry or anyone else in the Trib-Cubs offices will act to improve this team over the long-term, much less the short-term.

 

Business as usual.

[badger1679666666]

Still waiting. I have no hope that Hendry or anyone else in the Trib-Cubs offices will act to improve this team over the long-term, much less the short-term.

 

Business as usual.

 

I dunno, today was pretty embarassing.....

[BigbadB]

There was a lot to evaluate today. It might take a few weeks to get through all that data.

[Drew Doughty]

tomorrow seems like a perfect day for a firing to be announced.

[Laura]

Still waiting. I have no hope that Hendry or anyone else in the Trib-Cubs offices will act to improve this team over the long-term, much less the short-term.

 

Business as usual.

 

I dunno, today was pretty embarassing.....

 

It's been embarrassing for awhile and they haven't acted.

[Drew Doughty]

Still waiting. I have no hope that Hendry or anyone else in the Trib-Cubs offices will act to improve this team over the long-term, much less the short-term.

 

Business as usual.

 

I dunno, today was pretty embarassing.....

 

It's been embarrassing for awhile and they haven't acted.

 

today is another new low though. tomorrow is an off-day. we just lost a series again.

 

It feels like the time is right for a bomb to be dropped.

[louisvillecub]

Hey Hendry....is the situation declining yet????

[BigbadB]

Wait a minute. The Cubs are off again tomorrow?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Wait a minute. The Cubs are off again tomorrow?

 

Personally, I don't think this team has done anything to earn a day off.

[erik316wttn]

Wait a minute. The Cubs are off again tomorrow?

 

Personally, I don't think this team has done anything to earn a day off.

 

At least they won't lose.

 

Wait. This is the Cubs. It wouldn't shock me in the least to hear they lost on an off day. All my life this team has found new and creative ways to lose.

[Outshined_One]

Anyone got a ball to bounce up against a wall? We're going to be here awhile.

[Roast]

Anyone got a ball to bounce up against a wall? We're going to be here awhile.

 

:ball:

[Laura]

This has probably been posted somewhere else, but the Slate.com article on the Cubs -- The Cubs Savior

Chicago fans wait for their messiah. And wait, and wait ….

[Andy]

If Hendry doesn't fire someone tomorrow, the whole management team should be sent packing. He doesn't even necessarily have to fire Dusty right now. But he has to fire SOMEONE.

[soccer10k]

If Hendry doesn't fire someone tomorrow, the whole management team should be sent packing. He doesn't even necessarily have to fire Dusty right now. But he has to fire SOMEONE.

 

But the odds of that happening are slim and none.