Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager

[davell]

Cause I have too much time on my hands...

 

Here is my ideal coaching staff for the Cubs:

 

Manager: Torey Lovullo

Bench Coach: Dave Miley (Former Reds Manager, current AAA manager for NYY)

Pitching Coach: Blaise Ilsley (Current Cardinals bullpen coach, helped develop many of the Cards current young arms)

Hitting Coach: Victor Rodriguez (Assistant Red Sox hitting coach, minor league hitting coordinator for 6 years with Sox prior to that)

Damn, I watched Blaise Ilsley pitch for the Asheville Tourists as a kid.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Hitting Coach #2: Jose Canseco.

[Guest]

Hitting Coach #2: Jose Canseco.

 

is your sig from pete & pete? that show was disturbing.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Hitting Coach #2: Jose Canseco.

 

is your sig from pete & pete? that show was disturbing.

 

That show was *awesome* and I'm going to be watching the Time Travel episode this weekend in honor of DST.

[Boris]

Yea, P&P was pretty dope.

[Sammy Sofa]

P&P was great. Only monsters would find it disturbing.

[Guest]

i watched it all the time, but i remember it as having this surreal fucked up kind of vibe.

[imb]

it was very fucked up and also very awesome

[SouthSideRyan]

If you think it would be cool to have Danny Tambarelli as a facebook friend, you'd be wrong. I don't care about your shitty band update Danny.

[Sammy Sofa]

it was very [expletive] up and also very awesome

 

So great. I refuse to believe that the Hunter Thompson on the show wasn't the real Hunter Thompson.

[seanimal]

Hitting Coach #2: Jose Canseco.

 

is your sig from pete & pete? that show was disturbing.

 

That show was *awesome* and I'm going to be watching the Time Travel episode this weekend in honor of DST.

 

don't forget to load up on riboflavin, it's essential

[NewUserName]

So off topic....what does Ausmus bring? Except for being a MLB catcher for a lot of years and look how well that has worked for the Cardinals. I am not against him, just wondering why some(Kaplan) are so high on him.

[Guest]

So off topic....what does Ausmus bring? Except for being a MLB catcher for a lot of years and look how well that has worked for the Cardinals. I am not against him, just wondering why some(Kaplan) are so high on him.

 

Ivy League guy, which leads people to believe he's smart, which is probably true but doesn't necessarily mean he's baseball smart in the way many of us would want him to be.

[gscool89]

Tigers hire Brad Ausmus

[Butterscup1679666578]

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1m

 

Source: #Tigers to hire Ausmus as manager. First reported @AdamSpolane.

 

he brings nothing to us because the Tigers hired him.

[Guest]

Now I don't have to be really confused that they hired a guy that checks none of the boxes for what they claimed they were "prioritizing".

[gscool89]

RT @ESPNChiCubs: Reports have Ausmus going to Det. Expect Renteria to get Cubs job next week

 

Think Jesse Rogers is speculating though. Doubt they have a choice if they haven't interviewed Lovullo yet.

 

Edit: yes

RT @ESPNChiCubs: Prediction RT @HotStoveCubbies: @ESPNChiCubs Jesse is this a guess or something you are hearing?

[UMFan83]

Now I don't have to be really confused that they hired a guy that checks none of the boxes for what they claimed they were "prioritizing".

 

I think it's pretty likely they thought they could get Girardi and when they didn't they had to reevaluate.

[Clem Fandango]

God, Jesse Rogers sucks.

 

Let's just get it over with and hire Henry Blanco already. It's obvious that no bat, all defense catchers as managers is the new market inefficiency, so let's just put the nail in this coffin and drive it on home.

[gscool89]

Now I don't have to be really confused that they hired a guy that checks none of the boxes for what they claimed they were "prioritizing".

 

I think it's pretty likely they thought they could get Girardi and when they didn't they had to reevaluate.

I really doubt they had much faith in getting a guy that is already hired by the team that spends the most money in baseball unless they got false info from an inside source within the Girardi camp.

[treebird]

this is still very much what things would look like if we were super high on lovullo. not sad about missing ausmus at all.

[RammyFanny]

Not that it's indicative of his managing style, but I was looking over some of Ausmus' interviews yesterday and he seems to have the charisma of Dale Sveum. Pretty boring and even seemed a little nervous.

[dfnowak]

Ausmus was an intriguing candidate. I guess it's Lovullo or bust for me...all of the other candidates are just meh.

[Guest]

@Ken_Rosenthal: Sources: #RedSox’s Lovullo will indeed interview with #Cubs, most likely early this week.

[Sammy Sofa]

Ahhhh, now the payroll rumors/lies make sense...just Ricketts tricking and trapping yet another Boston asset. Very crafty.