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  1. Sammy Sofa
    And if they go with a zilch internal promotion, I think that points more to leaning to the rebuild side of things. Or if they're going to stick with pretty much the same team, it's so it's someone that can get the boot easily in 2 years when everyone is due to leave. Basically a nobody is an ass-covering move either way.
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    Right, because, shocker, they DO value things like optics/PR with moves like this. Maddon is widely liked by the fanbase because of the WS, hence why they didn't actually fire him and are trying to ride this out as smoothly as possible. Simply signing his backup doesn't work for both the people mad to see Joe gone ("If they're just going to promote the bench coach, then why not keep Joe?!?!" etc.), and not for most of the people who were also looking for the Cubs to move on and try something different. It's a lose/lose proposition PR-wise that makes almost nobody happy except the FO and a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of fans that would be creepily pumped over Loretta managing the Cubs. I'm pretty sure less than 10% of the population realizes Loretta was the bench coach, so the PR thing won't really come into play. You're right; nothing about him will ever be discussed once his name starts coming up. Nobody will ever knnnnnoooooowwwwwwwww.... Come on; the new manager is like the one place they have real wiggle room to sell the whole "it's time for a change" thing after the stinkers of the last two seasons. I don't particularly have any issue with Loretta as the manager, but simply promoting from within like that is such a long wet fart in a quiet church.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Right, because, shocker, they DO value things like optics/PR with moves like this. Maddon is widely liked by the fanbase because of the WS, hence why they didn't actually fire him and are trying to ride this out as smoothly as possible. Simply signing his backup doesn't work for both the people mad to see Joe gone ("If they're just going to promote the bench coach, then why not keep Joe?!?!" etc.), and not for most of the people who were also looking for the Cubs to move on and try something different. It's a lose/lose proposition PR-wise that makes almost nobody happy except the FO and a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of fans that would be creepily pumped over Loretta managing the Cubs.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Wouldn't the bold essentially make "seriously considering Loretta" not likely? Not sure I follow. To maybe clarify, all I'm saying is that the Cubs clearly had an eye on at least the possibility of Joe not coming back when they hired Loretta. I don't think they'd hire a bench coach they had zero interest in as a future manager, and therefore I don't think his one year association with Joe is a negative in their minds. I'm saying that you don't hire someone to be the second fiddle to a lame duck manager if you're likely to promote them after pushing the latter out the door. The people in charge are, quite frankly, completely tone deaf and possibly legally blind if they think simply promoting someone who was working under Maddon, even if only technically for a year, is something they can sell as really making a change.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    OR...we make the guys tied have to make HR teams from the WC teams and see who triumphs.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    It's insane, that guy's taint. thanks for making me rewatch that Taint Misbehavin'!
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Pushed out by a ghost.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    He's got the taint of Maddon. They very publicly and intentionally made Joe a lame duck, so if they are seriously considering Loretta, I doubt they care too much about the association they've created by making him Joe's bench coach for a year. Wouldn't the bold essentially make "seriously considering Loretta" not likely?
  9. Sammy Sofa
    He's got the taint of Maddon. must have been a gruesome surgery to acquire it It's insane, that guy's taint.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Is that good or bad news?
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    Name and shame these fools.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I would think from a PR perspective, simply sliding to the bench coach wouldn't exactly be looked at tremendously well. I mean, I know we WANT the team to be run by super sexy emotionless robots who don't care about such things...but it's not.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Please point to a single person acting like Hoerner is anything more than a possible option as a starting player for the Cubs to a degree anywhere resembling the amount of times you feel like you need to point out that you think he sucks. Just one.
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    Holy horsefeathers, nice anti-Cubs comeback win! Thanks for running this again, Southpaw19! I sort of gave up once I started getting clobbered, but it's always a ton of fun.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Experience costs money. There's basically no chance they don't go cheap with the manager.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    What does your weird boner for other teams' pitching have to do with general Cubs chit-chat. Like, at least swerve it back to your even weirder vendetta against Nico or something.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I'm surprised Yadi didn't charge the mound Molina knows what happens when he gets in the way of a Cubs pitcher.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So apparently 90% of the pitching around baseball is trash, except for the 2015 Mets, the 2017 Dodgers, and the Brewers the last 2 seasons. Intriguing theory.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Dumb would be thinking 1 season cancels out the other 4 where they showed their true tendencies. 2016 was out of the ordinary. I’ll rely on 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019 to make decisions on who stays and who goes. But go ahead and keep thinking that the same guys will magically be able to hit when it counts :roll: You mean like two of those seasons they made the NLCS, won a WC game, won a division, led MLB in wins, won a Game 5 on the road in the DS and were the best second half team in baseball for a good chunk of those years? No, no; let him drill down on this. I'm dying to know who he wants gone.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I think Girardi is too much of an obvious meatball for the FO to stand; Ross manages to dip his toes both in the "let's get someone who is more of a hard ass" gimmick, as well as being someone the fans and players would like. I keep seeing DeRosa's name coming up, but I can't imagine them going after someone who cranks up the goofball public persona to the nth degree right after everyone getting fed up with Maddon's dumb antics for jerks.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Who should hang their heads more out of RD shame, the Cubs or the Indians?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    In a far better world they keep neither.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Guys, come on; surely there's some merit to this "get rid of most of the team" approach. There's no way it could possibly turn out poorly.
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