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Most people, yes. But it only takes one person who doesn't care, and there plenty of people like that. My guess is he has a boss who is very sympathetic and protective of him. It doesn't have to be a heinous crime to draw interest. A picture of him in a strip club would probably make most bloggers' day.

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It should probably be for discussion at a later date but I really wonder how the next turnover will go down. It has to be pretty rare for a new GM with any real power to be brought in with a coach that has 8+ years of service time. Most of the time I think those coaches become de facto GMs until they are ousted themselves. But I'd hate to see Lovie as GM. He's not a personel guy, he's a have them all ready to play on Sunday guy. Ideally you'd bring in a fresh face, but realistically you are probably going to look at a short-term guy who is familiar with the system.

You aren't unrecognizable if you wear your uniform into the bar. And all you need is an imported beer, that should allow you to keep most of your per diem.

I am of the belief that this management and coaching staff has built up enough goodwill that simply going on a bad run isn't going to hurt them too bad. They haven't posted back to back sub .500 seasons since they've been together. They are also coming off of an NFC championship appearance. I think the best chance for change is if Angelo finally retires, which may be sooner than people think and they bring in new blood. If they lose the next 6 then maybe I will hope they go on and lose more to create some turnover. But I don't see anything good coming from losing to Carolina or Detroit, so I'd really rather see them win. I also don't want to see them blow the potential Cutler era, or the end of the Peppers/Urlacher/Briggs/Tillman/Harris era. I can go along with that. I believe in Cutler IF he's got the right pieces around him. I also would love to see the heart of the defense ride off into the sunset with a title, but Angelo and Lovie just cant understand that their offense needs huge upgrades before they can be taken seriously. I think they understand, I just don't think they know how to go about it. They've brought in numerour free agent receivers, RBs and linemen. They've spent important picks on QBs, RBs and recently some linemen. They've gone after a big name OC. They realize you need to be able to pass to win nowadays, they just aren't good at executing on that knowledge.

I am of the belief that this management and coaching staff has built up enough goodwill that simply going on a bad run isn't going to hurt them too bad. They haven't posted back to back sub .500 seasons since they've been together. They are also coming off of an NFC championship appearance. I think the best chance for change is if Angelo finally retires, which may be sooner than people think and they bring in new blood. If they lose the next 6 then maybe I will hope they go on and lose more to create some turnover. But I don't see anything good coming from losing to Carolina or Detroit, so I'd really rather see them win. I also don't want to see them blow the potential Cutler era, or the end of the Peppers/Urlacher/Briggs/Tillman/Harris era.

If you play your cards right you should be able to have a really good time without having to spend much of it.

You can't exactly blame him that Illinois still qualifies to play in the Big Ten.

yeah i think i've been amazed like 3 separate times when i've heard how few RBIs byrd has. i know he was hurt for a while, but he's had almost 500 plate appearances and has batted in the middle of the lineup for most of the year! i guess it's a combo of bad hitters in front of him and (moreso) complete incompetence with runners on base. He smacked a couple that were outs last night. He was perfectly fine in those situations last year and for his career, so it's probably just chance, rather than incompetence.

I think that if the situation arises, like a tie game in the 6th or 7th, Quade should put Garza in to give him a chance for 11 wins.

I'm not one to go crazy about what channel the Cubs are playing on, but the final game of the season is on WCIU?

And there could have been a lot of attention paid to games played by the Cards, Braves, Red Sox, Rays, Angels and Giants all the way up to this week, plus huge interest in the 1-game playoff those first four teams would eventually play for the right to play against division winners in the playoffs. The regular season is 162 games long, people are going to pay attention to it. And more people are going to have a reason to pay attention in September because of the change.

Somebody could make a fantastic movie about you someday. And you won't even have to go into hiding because you will be dead, in the interest of art.

Sandberg isn't going to be satisfied with a job like that. He feels like he deserves to be a manager somewhere. He might agree to be a bench coach in the right situation if he felt like it would lead to him getting a managerial job, but I doubt he would take any lesser job than that. Yeah, he made it quite clear he had no interest in a non-managerial coaching position, and even still, having the people's choice in the dugout all year isn't going to be comfortable for most managers.

Could this season get any worse?

ok

Torre and Girardi have both managed with the Yankees, and since Dusty Baker told us the Yankees do not draw many walks I don't want either guy managing the Cubs.

The level of anger I would have if a quality GM hired Sandberg is infinitely smaller than the level of anger I'd have if they hired a crap GM, or kept Jim Hendry around. The GM is who matters. That being said, I think Sandberg would be an annoying person to be the face of the franchise the next few years.

That isn't the impression I have gotten, but it would be a much better theory if true. Desperation contracts to second tier guys is what you want to avoid. Record setting contracts to the best of the best is worthwhile.

I always really liked Martinez. No idea what type of coach he is, but I don't think that's a horrible idea. It would be funny to see the Ryno sycophants go nuts after a different ex-cub gets the gig.

I hope they don't want him gone. I hope they want to keep him away from Chicago. I hope Ricketts isn't dumb enough to push for Sandberg and the new GM is smart enough to find the much better candidates for the job. Ok, so let me get this straight. So you say you hope a hall of fame baseball guy and an organization that has been a beast in the NL wants him enough to stay with them, which to me is a ringing endorsement of Sandberg but he is not good enough to manage the Cubs? Ok. Philly has been a beast for the better part of a decade. Hopefully Sandberg plays a part in tearing them back down to their prior aggressively mediocre ways.

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I hope they don't want him gone. I hope they want to keep him away from Chicago. I hope Ricketts isn't dumb enough to push for Sandberg and the new GM is smart enough to find the much better candidates for the job.

"Yes, yes. Please take this man who took a crap minor league to the playoffs away from us". Yes, yes, taking a minor league team to the playoffs is some sort of accomplishment that the Mike Quade's of the world could never dream of achieving. Pat Gillick knows a thing or three about baseball and he basically hired him. Hmm, pretty strong endorsement to me. As a AAA manager.

A lot more people would care about the NIT if the NCAA tournament was just the Final 4. Conference tournaments are a better comparison, and those are wildly popular. EDIT: Or better yet, Bowl games. Bowl games that people care about are 50-100 year old institutions. With the exception of maybe the Rose Bowl, bowl games are watched for the teams involved, not because it's time for the Outback Bowl or whatever. Because for the past 50-100 years the best teams have played in those games. If, for the past 50 years they had a playoff series to determine the national champion and then all of a sudden decided to only allow 2 teams to play in that tournament and then everybody else can play in a make-up tournament, nobody would care.