Cubs Fire Renteria, Hire Maddon

[Tracer Bullet]

"You can tell I'm pretty excited about being here. And another thing your city is wonderful, I love it here."

 

Presumably spoken before the peanut gallery started asking questions.

 

his new plan is to find out where kaplan lives and move as far away from there as possible

 

why not find out where kaplan lives and then run him over in his RV on his way home?

[Agony and Ivy]

[expletive] you kaplan

Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro?

 

He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?"

[Sammy Sofa]

screaming dildo Dave Kaplan

 

I love you.

[davell]

Julie DiCaro ‏@JulieDiCaro · 56s56 seconds ago

"Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night." ---Maddon

[treebird]

sharma sighting

[Agony and Ivy]

He called Bosio "Bos" and said they're good friends.

[Gilby]

Just let Sharma ask all of the questions. Less dumb questions about 107 yrs and past managers.

[Sammy Sofa]

Holy [expletive], I love this guy.

[Banedon]

http://k43.kn3.net/0A535690D.gif

[Tracer Bullet]

[expletive] you kaplan

Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro?

 

He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?"

 

Theo, Jed, a [expletive] of better players, and I'm Joe MOTHERFUCKING Maddon

[Gilby]

lol, Theo needed a jacket. Jed ran to get more beers.

[ConstableRabbit]

[expletive] you kaplan

Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro?

 

He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?"

Hahaha what did Maddon say?

[Banedon]

Gahhh...the CSN stream just dropped for me.

[Gilby]

Gahhh...the CSN stream just dropped for me.

 

cubs.com has it too

[bukie]

Joe Maddon on analytics: ”I use them a lot. You ever see that card in my back pocket? That’s dripping with analytics.“

[bukie]

[expletive] you kaplan

Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro?

 

He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?"

Hahaha what did Maddon say?

"Why would you not want want to accept that challenge? In this city? With this ballpark? With these players?"

[treebird]

oh I like that bit about life outside of baseball a lot

[Banedon]

Eddie Haskell reference

[Tracer Bullet]

oh I like that bit about life outside of baseball a lot

 

[expletive] the renovations. Players should pay us to play for this guy.

[Sammy Sofa]

Ends it by buying everyone a shot and a beer.

[bukie]

“I have a life outside of baseball… being the first to arrive and the last to leave doesn’t impress me."

[treebird]

Paul Sullivan is putting blue label on Maddon's tab, I guarantee it

[jersey cubs fan]

It's unfathomable to me that the screaming dildo Dave Kaplan is the #1 sports journalist in Chicago.

That seems to be the case for all #1 sports journalists in every city. Not a lot of calm cool and collected filling those roles.

[bukie]

So, usually press conferences are boring. This was not boring.

[Old Style]

Buying a round of drinks for everyone. I love this dude.