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  1. UMFan83
    Doug Melvin's going on at least 4. Just looked it up, he's actually only hiring his 3rd this offseason. He was hiring in October 2002, he hired Yost for 2003, then Yost was famously fired in September 2008 and replaced by Dale Sveum. But he was only an interim manager, and to me that doesn't count because it doesn't go against his GM track record. Then after that season he fired Ken Macha for the last 2 years and now will be hiring his 3rd. But Hendry beat him to the punch. I looked up Dombrowski, Jocketty, Colletti, Sabean and none of them have made 3 managerial hires at their current (or St. Louis for Jocketty) position. Dombrowski and Jocketty have won WS, no? Ahh yes that too
  2. UMFan83
    Doug Melvin's going on at least 4. Just looked it up, he's actually only hiring his 3rd this offseason. He was hiring in October 2002, he hired Yost for 2003, then Yost was famously fired in September 2008 and replaced by Dale Sveum. But he was only an interim manager, and to me that doesn't count because it doesn't go against his GM track record. Then after that season he fired Ken Macha for the last 2 years and now will be hiring his 3rd. But Hendry beat him to the punch. I looked up Dombrowski, Jocketty, Colletti, Sabean and none of them have made 3 managerial hires at their current (or St. Louis for Jocketty) position. I was including Jerry Narron from his Texas days. Wasn't sure if he hired Oates. Ahhh I just meant in the same tenue with the same team. Usually they say a GM gets his one manager hire, sometimes two. Rarely 3, as evidenced by Hendry and soon Melvin being the only 2 active GMs that have had the opportunity to make 3 managing hires. Usually they are fired or move on by now.
  3. UMFan83
    Doug Melvin's going on at least 4. Just looked it up, he's actually only hiring his 3rd this offseason. He was hiring in October 2002, he hired Yost for 2003, then Yost was famously fired in September 2008 and replaced by Dale Sveum. But he was only an interim manager, and to me that doesn't count because it doesn't go against his GM track record. Then after that season he fired Ken Macha for the last 2 years and now will be hiring his 3rd. But Hendry beat him to the punch. I looked up Dombrowski, Jocketty, Colletti, Sabean and none of them have made 3 managerial hires at their current (or St. Louis for Jocketty) position.
  4. UMFan83
    What do you think the record is for most managers hired by a single, non-WS winning General Manager? JH is at 3 now.
  5. UMFan83
    It's a press conference, take it easy. And its still a meaningless phrase. Saying "he knows how to be a Cub" was criteria they looked for in the next manager is ignorant. I hear ya. I don't want to hear that BS too. But it's a press conference, it's bound to be full of cliches and stupid comments. I doubt Quade went into the interview with JH and said things like "I'm the best choice because I know how to be a Cub". Actually now that I think about it, I bet you that crap was discussed.
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    I'm not. He sucks.
  7. UMFan83
    Well they have 5 minutes to offer that pick to NE before the deadline comes and goes. According to PFT they are asking for a first.
  8. UMFan83
    http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/10/bears-sign-barry-turner-to-take-charles-grants-spot.html And yet Charles Grant was thought to be a better option until now.
  9. UMFan83
    My thoughts are that it didn't happen that way so its fruitless to speculate on it. But since you asked, no I don't think Mike Quade gets hired if Lou stays the entire season.
  10. UMFan83
    Well there is a reason that Lee turned around his career at age 29. He developed a cutter which turned out to be one of the most dangerous pitches in baseball, and mixed it up with pinpoint control of his fastball and breaking ball, which allowed him to hit the outside corners for unhittable strikes, and then come in with that cutter. As others have said, his stuff seems to be the type that ages well as it relies on control more than overpowering a hitter. I'm not sure about injury risk, but in terms of stuff, I would have no problem giving him a 4 year deal. Probably a 5 but I'd be less enthusiastic.
  11. UMFan83
    Did you guys see that Byfuglien and Ladd both scored on Niemi last night, in a 4-2 Thrashers victory? Buff's goal was the game winner.
  12. UMFan83
    Someone should write a book about this team. This season has just been a comedy of errors. The biggest joke is that we're 4-2 and we would can the coach and GM in a second if we could.
  13. UMFan83
    Why? Because there was a lot of chatter about Girardi being the top choice, so I figured there wouldn't be any announcements from the Cubs until after the Yankees were done this season. Then maybe Girardi wasn't really the top choice and/or he made it clear he wasn't interested. Excellent analysis. The MLB Network would like to offer you a job dispensing your baseball genius to idiots like me. If that was obvious to you, then the timing isn't very curious at all is it?
  14. UMFan83
    Not sure how much of that I believe. The Cubs made Sandberg go to the minors and coach so he could get experience, why would Maddux be any different? Because the Cubs might actually want Maddux to coach the team, not just keep him busy for 4 years just so they don't burn bridges with a legend.
  15. UMFan83
    Like I said above, I honestly think this is what the Cubs want. I think they want to do whatever they can to lower expectations and still keep the fans content.
  16. UMFan83
    Any truth to the rumor that Jay Cutler has been sacked 4 times in this game already?
  17. UMFan83
    I think the Cubs org should get kudos for not caving in to popular demand and hiring Sandberg. If he wasn't their guy, he wasn't their guy. I also like that finally after a decade of big named managers coming in with a parade of media attention and expectations, the Cubs have hired a quieter manager. It was probably intentional as the Cubs didn't think they were in a position to fulfill the expectations that a big name manager would bring in, but either way I'm glad the manager and his press conferences won't be a sideshow to the Cubs season anymore.
  18. UMFan83
    If anyone is wondering, Ryno is saying all the right things, but gives the impression that he's gonna be moving on from the org. He is disapointed, but he said he wishes Quade the best, wishes Hendry the best, Ricketts the best. Said what he's been doing the last 4 years was worth it. Everything he's saying is in past tense. He was just asked if hes coming back to the Cubs organization, he said he was told by the Cubs that "he was not their guy", and he's heard no talk about any other positions or whatever. He's going to digest this news, and see what opportunities are out there to help him reach his goal of doing this in the major leagues. My impression is that he's not going to be in the Cubs org anymore, and it seems like its mutual. He said he will NOT be a bench coach for the Cubs. Not sure if that was his decsion or the Quade's. But if I'm Quade, I'm not making Sandberg my bench coach.
  19. UMFan83
    Ryno is apparently on ESPN 1000 right now.
  20. UMFan83
    I love twitter: BTW, if you want to single out dumb Cubs fans, do a twitter search for "Sandberg" right now.
  21. UMFan83
    See I don't know how much creedence we should give what happened in September. I certainly don't think it should hurt his evaluation, but I'm not sure how much it helped. In that "amazing" September run the Cubs had here are their team hitting numbers with NL ranking in (): BA:.232 (13th) OBP:.305 (12th) SLG: .343 (15th) OPS: .648 (14th) OPS+: 84 (14th) Runs: 108 (14th) Now here are their numbers for all of 2010 (including September: BA:.257 (7th) OBP:.320 (11th) SLG: .401 (9th) OPS: .721 (10th) OPS+: 98 (10th) Runs: 108 (10th) So they hit miserably, won a bunch of close games and had above normal pitching. I'm not saying I disagree with Quade as the manager. I'm saying that for me it's not because he got our hitters to play particularly well, because they didn't....they played worse.
  22. UMFan83
    It will be interesting to see what happens to Ryno now. I know he was being considered as a candidate with some other clubs. If he doesn't get a job from them, will Quade consider naming him a bench coach, as the logical "next step" to being a manager (Cubs or otherwise)? Will he feel slighted that he didn't get the job and move elsewhere? If so will he forever burn a bridge with the team he played for and has been associated with for nearly 30 years?
  23. UMFan83
    And a very important one nonetheless. If they can find the right 1B, then great, they've done their job. This team sucks at acquiring offense though. And Cliff Lee taking over the spot from whoever would have been the 5th starter would provide a pretty substantial improvement. Well I'd agree with you there. And actually after looking up some stats, I might partially take back my argument earlier. The Cubs starters ERA in the 2nd half of the season was 3.97 which is 8th in the NL, right in the middle. But if you break it down by month, results are over the place, but more often than not in the 2nd half of the year the numbers are below average April: 3.47 (4th) May: 4.35 (11th) June: 3.68 (1st) July: 4.45 (12th) August: 4.53 (12th) September: 3.52 (5th) So in the 3 months after the ASB they had a starters ERA around 4.5 which is bad for 2 months, and then in September in the month its notoriously difficult to evaluate players, it's really good. So after seeing that I'm more apt to look into spending finite resources at improving the pitching.
  24. UMFan83
    Sorry I know there is a 13 page thread discussing this. If mods prefer to rename that thread "Quade named manager" and merge this, that's fine. I just wanted to get a thread saying that up here so people checking the site would see the news. Edit: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/10/19/cubs-remove-interim-tag-name-mike-quade-manager/
  25. UMFan83
    I'm not sure why you are breaking out 1st/2nd half. But starting pitching was part of the problem this year. Offense has consistently been the major problem for this organization, and pitching has more often than not been the strength. It was not good this year. I singled out the 2nd half because 40% of the rotation from the 1st half wasn't on the team (Lilly) or wasn't a big factor (Silva) in the 2nd half. The rotation of Z, Dempster, Wells, Gorzalanny and Coleman put together a solid 2nd half. And while we cannot count on anything but inconsistency with Z, and Wells and Coleman don't have a ton of upside, the offense is a much bigger need and question mark than the starting pitching. It might not have been up to the standards of the last several years but it was probably better than average in the NL. If you are dealing with finite resources to improve your club, and you look at the statistics, its a no brainer to use those stats to improve the offense. There's more marginal benefit to improving the offense if you actually acquire the right people, which is a different argument in itself.
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