Bochy was fallback option

[Banedon]

Jon Heyman from SI has this to say:

 

As it turns out, Bruce Bochy was the Cubs' fallback choice had Lou Piniella turned them down. Apparently, GM Jim Hendry determined he wanted significant experience, which ,considering the trend toward cost saving, is refreshing.

[goonys evil twin]

Jon Heyman from SI has this to say:

 

As it turns out, Bruce Bochy was the Cubs' fallback choice had Lou Piniella turned them down. Apparently, GM Jim Hendry determined he wanted significant experience, which ,considering the trend toward cost saving, is refreshing.

 

I read that earlier and wanted to comment on the refreshing part.

 

Why is it refreshing for a team to spend big on a retread? He makes it sounds like baseball is just turning its back on the lifers and forcing guys into early retirement on low wages.

 

I don't get what is so refreshing about a manager getting his 5th chance to manager a major league team.

[Banedon]

Jon Heyman from SI has this to say:

 

As it turns out, Bruce Bochy was the Cubs' fallback choice had Lou Piniella turned them down. Apparently, GM Jim Hendry determined he wanted significant experience, which ,considering the trend toward cost saving, is refreshing.

 

I read that earlier and wanted to comment on the refreshing part.

 

Why is it refreshing for a team to spend big on a retread? He makes it sounds like baseball is just turning its back on the lifers and forcing guys into early retirement on low wages.

 

I don't get what is so refreshing about a manager getting his 5th chance to manager a major league team.

 

Not only that, but how is that different from hiring Baker who had experience, and Baylor who had experience? I'm not sure how this is something suddenly different..

[Soul]

Jon Heyman from SI has this to say:

 

As it turns out, Bruce Bochy was the Cubs' fallback choice had Lou Piniella turned them down. Apparently, GM Jim Hendry determined he wanted significant experience, which ,considering the trend toward cost saving, is refreshing.

 

I read that earlier and wanted to comment on the refreshing part.

 

Why is it refreshing for a team to spend big on a retread? He makes it sounds like baseball is just turning its back on the lifers and forcing guys into early retirement on low wages.

 

I don't get what is so refreshing about a manager getting his 5th chance to manager a major league team.

 

Not only that, but how is that different from hiring Baker who had experience, and Baylor who had experience? I'm not sure how this is something suddenly different..

 

I know, I know.

 

Everyone knows it seems. Except the Cubs.

 

Check that. The Cubs know it too. They just don't care about winning. There's absolutely no doubt about it. If they did care, they would develop an organizational strategy that makes sense just like everyone else. But they don't, instead preferring the merry-go-round we have been on forever.

 

Lou is just the latest horse we are riding on that nightmarish baseball whirly-cue which leads ever in a circle, right back where we have always been: the bottom.

[abuck1220]

only in baseball can an 80 year old be considered refreshing.

[dalgreen]

And here I thought with Guillen's success, then with Macha and Randolph doing what they did we'd be done with this "experience" crap.

[CuseCubFan69]

And here I thought with Guillen's success, then with Macha and Randolph doing what they did we'd be done with this "experience" crap.

 

Look at the two teams that were in the World Series....Mr. Hendry did. That's our Hendry.