It's Maddoning

[Cubswin11]

This is all so horsefeathering weird.

 

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[Cubswin11]

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[Bryants Disco Ball]

Damn, they should have hired Derek Johnson then.

[Gilby]

Theo's in a bit of an extended slump when it comes to general decision making. The feeling around this team should be way more positive than it actually is right now.

[Tim]

Theo's in a bit of an extended slump when it comes to general decision making. The feeling around this team should be way more positive than it actually is right now.

I'm 90% confident that we could essentially stand pat at this point and win 90+ games and make the playoffs in 2019 (barring abnormal health issues). I don't feel bad, I just want more.

[Banedon]

Theo's in a bit of an extended slump when it comes to general decision making. The feeling around this team should be way more positive than it actually is right now.

 

Eh...some of the results haven't been good. But how many people at the time those decisions were made thought they were bad? Sometimes the right decisions don't pan out. I don't know what the story with Hickey is, and having to replace him after a year surely isn't ideal, but it definitely seems out of the ordinary and not something that can necessarily be pinned on something Theo should have foreseen.

[Sammy Sofa]

Theo's in a bit of an extended slump when it comes to general decision making. The feeling around this team should be way more positive than it actually is right now.

 

Eh...some of the results haven't been good. But how many people at the time those decisions were made thought they were bad? Sometimes the right decisions don't pan out. I don't know what the story with Hickey is, and having to replace him after a year surely isn't ideal, but it definitely seems out of the ordinary and not something that can necessarily be pinned on something Theo should have foreseen.

 

Theo's next presser:

 

[UMFan83]

Really weird to leave a coach dangling in the wind like that. I almost wonder if Hickey is having health issues or something and is voluntarily leaving but the Cubs want to find a successor before announcing

[Brian707]

Yeah it seems like they’re trying to smoke Joe out with this move

 

 

The next step is for them to board up his office

 

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[CyHawk_Cub]

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[Brian]

I would have advocated for a lifetime contract for Joe if he would have just responded "oh go horsefeathers yourself"

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[Sammy Sofa]

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This fuckin' dope. He's so fuckin' lucky the Cubs won that WS in spite of his dumbassery.

[treebird]

I certainly get the fire Joe takes and agree with some, but I’m more for bringing him back than not. Mostly for stuff like this, he builds a culture/clubhouse like nobody else and manages the day to day minutiae better than anyone which I think is more important than anything (a drill sergeant like Girardi would ruin this team and culture). He makes guys want to be here with the atmosphere of the team he largely is responsible for overseeing. Seeing things like this makes me believe in it.

 

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i was looking through this old thread for something else and stumbled across this post from october 3 of last year.

 

remember that joe sucks!

[Cubswin11]

I certainly get the fire Joe takes and agree with some, but I’m more for bringing him back than not. Mostly for stuff like this, he builds a culture/clubhouse like nobody else and manages the day to day minutiae better than anyone which I think is more important than anything (a drill sergeant like Girardi would ruin this team and culture). He makes guys want to be here with the atmosphere of the team he largely is responsible for overseeing. Seeing things like this makes me believe in it.

 

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i was looking through this old thread for something else and stumbled across this post from october 3 of last year.

 

remember that joe sucks!

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"I would prefer that the generation, the younger group right now, doesn't need to see demonstrations like [bat flips] in order to feel like they can watch baseball, or that baseball's more interesting because somebody bat flips really well, and 'I kind of dig it, because if I watch them, I might see a bat flip.' I would prefer that kids watch baseball because it's a very interesting game, it's intellectually stimulating, when it's played properly it's never too long. I prefer kids learn that method, as opposed to becoming enamored with our game based on histrionics. I really would prefer that, but it seems to be that we are catering to that a bit." -- Maddon

[Sammy Sofa]

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Good news Joe, no one watches 3+ hour stick and ball games 162 times a year because they might see a bat flip. That's what YouTube clips are for.

[Derwood]

He really went from "goofy uncle who has petting zoos and costume flights" to "old man yells at cloud" pretty quickly

[Transmogrified Tiger]

At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.

[squally1313]

At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.

 

Are the celebrations not part of the sport?

[Sammy Sofa]

At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.

 

What the hell do we call a hot take that is somehow also insanely boring? Because that's what this is.

[jersey cubs fan]

At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.

that simple sentence wouldn't be objectionable but that isn't what he said. And we know a lot more about how this guy thinks about a variety of related issues to draw some conclusions.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

At the risk of summoning the anti-anti-fun brigade, is it really that objectionable that he says "I'd prefer if people liked the sport for the sport, and not the celebrations"? He doesn't even say or imply the celebrations are bad or too much.

 

Are the celebrations not part of the sport?

 

Yes and no? I mean they clearly are a thing that happens while playing, but it's not like something like Olympic ice skating where that expression is the point. Maybe I'm sensitive to it because while I enjoy Javy finger wagging a runner every now and then it's not close to why I care or watch baseball, but I think folks are preconditioned to all the genuinely bad celebration takes that anything that isn't full-throated enthusiasm of celebrations dialed up to 11 puts you into "old man yells at cloud" territory.

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[Sammy Sofa]

Additional counterpoint: Maddon is a horsefeathering clown, and I guaren-damn-tee you a big part of these gripes is it irks him that a "fun" part of the game is something that doesn't involve his [expletive] regional manager team building nonsense.