I agree with what Brenly is saying here, but managing from the press box is much easier than managing from the clubhouse.

Saying you would have done something is much easier than actually doing it.

I don't get all the love for this interview. Brenly has pretty much said the exact same thing in past years in other radio interviews and on the telecast. It bugged me they are acting like they have new hot tape with Brenly venting about Soriano.

Now Bernstein saying how happy he was that Brenly specifically mentioned the contract. Oooohhh. Yet another angle Brenly has covered before. Yes, the coach has pressure to play the guys getting big money. Shocking.

Everyone can want Lou gone, and that is fine. But this interview provided nothing new. Like it or not Lou is still faced with the same problems he has had with the big contracts for the last couple of years. Brenly has talked about it in the past and tactfully addressed the obvious as he did today.

Oh c'mon, its only Year One!

I said it the day he bought the team & I'll say it again. Ricketts should have blown this fucking team up & cleaned house. Hendry, Lou, the entire coaching staff. Get rid of them all. This is a wasted lame duck season. After yesterdays loss Lou says that the players are trying...they aren't trying to make outs. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

I said it the day he bought the team & I'll say it again. Ricketts should have blown this fucking team up & cleaned house.

Scorehead, that Alfonso Soriano contract is quite an albatross! When Tom Ricketts bought the Cubs, I don't think Soriano's outrageous contract was part of the sale. Too bad he can't get a 24 pack of Budweiser for Soriano...The Cubs are screwed financially for years to come, even though they had to get rid of Milton Bradley and his idiotic behavior!

You're right, he only payed $900 million for this team. Eating another $100 million is nothing...

Aren't you one of the guys always preaching responsible spending?

Lou Piniella is the real disappointment here. Lou played under Billy Martin, who once yanked Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson's lazy derriere out of the outfield in Fenway Park in the middle of an inning because Reggie lollygagged on a popup hit by Jim Rice. Alfonso Soriano is no Hall of Famer.

I never really liked Reggie Jackson.

Exactly. So why does the fucking idiot responsible for the Bradley & Soriano contracts still have a job with the Cubs?

Exactly. So why does the fucking idiot responsible for the Bradley & Soriano contracts still have a job with the Cubs?

I can't answer that one...Anyone with a brain knows Jim Hendry has to be held accountable, yet the Ricketts family seems to have given Jim the benefit of the doubt...for now.

Firing the entire Cubs coaching staff wouldn't cost Ricketts $100 million. I'm not sure where & how you came up with that number.

I understand your love for all things Yankees, but this is not related. I would guess that Reggie's contract in years and total amount of salary was nowhere near the level of money the Cubs have to pay Soriano. The 1970's was a completely different era for players. When Reggie went to the Yankees you were witnessing the beginning of free agency. Prior to that, ownership OWNED the players. There is a huge difference in the mindset of a player being owned and a player from today that has ownership under his thumb (I would use a different phrase, but don't want to offend).

I respectfully disagree. Regardless of what a player is being paid, you play the game properly or you don't play. It is not as if Soriano is a star player who is carrying the Cubs on his back.

Reggie Jackson was an established star in 1977. Believe me, pulling Reggie Jackson out of the outfield in the middle of an inning was a pretty big deal, even in 1977. A lot bigger deal, I would submit, than sitting Soriano, who is essentially a piece of garbage.