Yeah that makes sense. Give the guy that was like the 5th choice last year 11 months and then can him. I'm sure you'll have a great list to choose from after that. It makes more sense than keeping an awful coach out of fear that the next one might be worse.
Beckman is finishing the season strong. I don't care if he recruited these guys or not, he should have them playing better than this and deserves to be fired.
The shooting will cool off soon, and you'll want to kill them. They will surely cool off to some extent, but I do think they can continue to shoot a high percentage on a regular basis if they keep getting the same quality of shots. They seem to be playing a more well-rounded game than they did the past few seasons.
This is a good deal for both sides. The Cubs get $950k and Lahair turned a couple good months into a contract that could set him up for life. I'm sure he would prefer to be playing in MLB, but with his age and service time he was never going to get a good payday even if he was able to stick around for several years.
Yes, it was the typical "Illinois makes every shot they take" game. Let's hope they don't follow it up with the Bruce Weber specialty of missing all those same shots and scoring 43 points the next game.
I didn't see this. Hopefully he's ok. Lovie said "Alshon Jeffrey hurt his knee... a little bit. Don't know exactly how bad it is" So what is it Lovie? Don't say "a little bit" when you clearly don't know what the extent of the injury is.
Is the Illinois/Hawaii game on TV anywhere in the Chicago area? I tried watching the University of Hawaii web stream, but it keeps buffering and timing out.
Yeah, this kind of sucks, but I also think the Dodgers are going to be a thorn in their own side. They may have a lot of money to spend, but they certainly aren't spending it responsibly and it will catch up with them eventually.
I think Hollandsworth is probably more of a courtesy interview than anything else. I have a feeling we're going to end up with Plesac, which isn't the worst case scenario, but is certainly far from the best. This is really a pretty pathetic list of finalists.