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Not to defend O'Neal...well I guess I am, who knows if he didn't get any backing from Baker on decisions or was bypassed? Either the guy is completely incompetent or something else was up.

I wonder who is on the Rangers short list?

I'd like to see Hendry move quickly to get a manager so he can get the coaches he wants. Like many have said, he's had since July to think this over and if he hasn't then he should be removed from being the GM now. I'm getting fed up with the lack of vision.

I agree with you on this. What do you know about Kranitz? Rick is an outstanding instructor. He was Greg Maddux's first pitching coach way back when. You remember when Jaime Navarro had a good year with the Cubs? Kranitz gets a lot of credit for that. He worked in the Cubs' minor-league system for a long time, and you saw the results he got with the Marlins' young pitchers. He'd be terrific. And to be fair, Rick will give Larry a lot of credit for his own professional development. It's fashionable to pick on Rothschild, and it will be a tough sell to the public to bring him back, but he worked very hard, and some of the stuff that went on wasn't his fault. Thanks Bruce for that info....I would like to know more about the relationship between Baker and Rothschild and Rothschild and the pitchers. You touched on something that has bothered me the whole time involving these two relationships. Do you know how they were and did they have a conflict between the two? For some reason I just don't see Larry and Dusty as having a close relationship, a professional one for the fans and press to see but IMO they just seemed to not get along or had different philosophies. You've hit it pretty good. They got along, but Dusty would have been better served listening to and following Larry's advice instead of overruling him. Funny thing, Larry had the most contact with the media of any of Dusty's coaches by far. I don't know if it was part of Dusty's us-against-them philosophy or what, but I won't miss it. The coaches under Riggleman and Baylor all were friendly and accessible. You will see a totally different dynamic and a much more open atmosphere with the new coaching staff beginning in spring training. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks and I'm sure you are. Baker seemed to have a distrust of the media guys and just never seemed to embrace Chicago IMO.

Here's where Johnny B is going to go now: http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061003&content_id=1697782&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

Yankees vs Yankees

I agree with you on this. What do you know about Kranitz? Rick is an outstanding instructor. He was Greg Maddux's first pitching coach way back when. You remember when Jaime Navarro had a good year with the Cubs? Kranitz gets a lot of credit for that. He worked in the Cubs' minor-league system for a long time, and you saw the results he got with the Marlins' young pitchers. He'd be terrific. And to be fair, Rick will give Larry a lot of credit for his own professional development. It's fashionable to pick on Rothschild, and it will be a tough sell to the public to bring him back, but he worked very hard, and some of the stuff that went on wasn't his fault. Thanks Bruce for that info....I would like to know more about the relationship between Baker and Rothschild and Rothschild and the pitchers. You touched on something that has bothered me the whole time involving these two relationships. Do you know how they were and did they have a conflict between the two? For some reason I just don't see Larry and Dusty as having a close relationship, a professional one for the fans and press to see but IMO they just seemed to not get along or had different philosophies.

I agree with you on this. What do you know about Kranitz?

Many were along with Hendry getting some impact bats which he didn't and getting Pierre instead of Furcal just helped add up to a disaster.

Oh common, you know you'd like to see this at Wrigley Feild. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkqly-uGPX0 Lou makes for great theatre, no doubt about that. Will Lee Elia come back to chicago if Lou comes? Now we are talking fireworks! That's what scares me.....another side show and I'm sick of those when it comes to the Cubs.

Don't get happy yet... At least it would be his choice....I hope. I still feel that Rothschild is going to come back.

Jeter is clutch and ARod chokes...keep it up guys and my plan will be complete!

I don't think Hendry would go for an all righty lineup like that though. Then get Drew for CF. OK! I'd be fine with a Burrell, Drew, Murton OF even though the flyballs to left would be interesting.

Zimmer...."Welcome to the club", that guys a nut. One thing I find ironic is if Florida has always been worried about their pitchers why did they have McKeon as manager? Didn't he run the young guys into the ground or have they learned from that? I predict that Florida will win another WS in the next 5 years.

I want the new manager to have all his people and it'll help recruiting a good manager.

Kabgillion is more than a zillion. :wink: But just to be on the safe side, I'd offer 20 gagbzillion. I went with a Z theme.

I don't think Hendry would go for an all righty lineup like that though.

Come on guys...it's Z, 20 years for 20 Zillion dollars.

Well aren't you just lovely! And I get the joke....stick a CORK in it, a Sammy funny joke, good one. How did you know I wanted Sosa for manager? Are you a mind reader? What am I thinking now?

Good for him. Now they can trade Ichiro for Jones.

I think the Marlins know this and acted quickly to get their man. Or maybe Fredi preferred the Marlins over the Cubs. Who knows? Quite posible cc. I want somebody that can handle the pressure of being a Cub manager and if that makes Gonzalez nervous, not that I know if it does, I don't want him.

He supposedly will be available this offseason. And he'll hit 450 in the playoffs and drive his value way up.

I think the Marlins know this and acted quickly to get their man.

Nice post Serena. I think having the Yankee background by being around Torre and Zimmer would help Joe. Torre is accused often of having "his boys" just like Baker was. I have to assume that most managers have that problem though. If I'm having a bad day all I can do is to think of how Baker would have handled the Marlins in 2006 and a big smile comes across my face.

Then both teams would get Jonesed. Do they need a corner OF?