It's time. Fuck the bullshit; the prodigal son needs to return home! If the Cubs aren't going to be serious title contenders for the next ~2-3 years, why not go the ultimate meatball route and appease the oldschool "beer and shot" crowd with the managerial appointment of a lifetime? You'll get that much more good will and perhaps even some novelty attendance to help the cause of upgrading the stadium.

If Ricketts was willing to splash the cash on Theo in order to buy the organization a good ~4 years to slum around the bottom of the league and grab some high draft picks whilst working on stadium renevation; methinks adding Ryno to the mix will get you at least 2 more years of mutiny-free fan patronage before the mindset of crotchety old folks saying "you don't get better by losing 100 games a year" catches on and really starts to hit the Cubs where it hurts.

He's paid his dues....he's put in his time. He's even gotten his feet wet @ a MLB club. Comeon Theo.... give us not just what we want, but what we need! #BringBackRyno!!!

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Sini,
I always enjoy reading your posts,but show some respect! I ain't that crochety,YET!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

It was a pretty big fuckup to groom Sandberg for the job for years and years, only to then not hire him because he had no major-league experience. Yeah, that was kind of the point: he instead had experience with the players in the organization and the organization in general. Then the Phillies hired him, lack of experience notwithstanding. So we developed a manager for the Phillies and lost him for nothing. Great work, guys.

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no sarcasm was abused in the typing of this post.

that and i didn't know he got a proper longterm contract... i just thought he was interim?

either way, these are the chicago baseball cubs, which means you tear up that contract and come to the place you were always meant to manage.

regardless, this just mans that sandberg will come back when he's past it as a manager to end his days as an underachieving manager!

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sorry imu, i didn't believe you til i just heard that.... i need the soothing pedantic overtones of dave kaplan talking down to me in order to know that something is truly to be believed.

i'm gonna go have a cry now. CH was right.... the cubs developed a manager for the phillies because of bullshit egos and stuff..... and now i've gotta travel to philly to have a crack @ cindy sandberg =(

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When Mike Quade is your answer, then you may wish to reconsider the question.

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Sandberg will get fired from the Phillies. Things are going to be bad there for a while. Just watch.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

You said the same thing about the Dodgers.

How's that looking?

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The Phillies don't have a billion dollar tv deal allowing them to buy a bunch of shit and then get rid of it and buy some more.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

And they don't have Donny Baseball.

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Very true.

It helps tremendously that the cancer of all cancers josh beckett was hurt and as far away from the dodgers as possible.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Don Tiny said no to Ryno. So he's not an option.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

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das kapman currently has david haugh on right now. random fact: i once got blocked by david haugh on twitter for calling him a dipshit =(

btw, david haugh thinks that there is no other plausible alternative than joe girardi. we're clearly in steak dinner BOOM territory.

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I hate to revisit this debate but he had success at every level. The natural progression and the next step was the majors. Epstein was wrong and we've seen why. We lost a guy that I believe will be a really good manager if not a great one.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

And they refused to consider him.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

hey jimmy i come from a line of cubs fans, the patriarch of them being a proper beer and shot cubs fan. his buddy arnie dougan always came with us for the games (complete with giant cubs logo ass cushions and a transistor radio, no less) and it was a proper afternoon. years later arnie ended up being an usher circa section ~123 for a few good years, which meant that any ticket that got us in the ballpark eventually got us over to section 123 by the ~3rd inning.

you know, good baseball people.

and yeah, my grandfather is one of those "crotchety old men" who believes that you don't build a world championship team by losing 100 games a year. and neither do i, so i just wanted to point out the inherent sarcasm of my original post. i'm not going to start believing in this team and it's farm system chock full of herculean talent until they get some damn pitching.

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That Mike Quade is still out of baseball altogether is really kind of stunning. The guy was a lifer and had experienced success throughout the minor leagues. With all the baseball jobs in the world out there, he can't get a single one?

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Dr. BCH ‏@DRBCH 30 Apr 11
Hey Quade can you maybe bat the guy on pace to hit 50 hrs ahead of Jeff Baker #cubs #bringbackRyno

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Fine, it's not stunning.

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They fucked up in not hiring him but there's an inside story that's never come out and no one in Chicago media seems to know what it is.

Ryno progressed through the minor leagues & was successful at every level. The Cubs organization made an investment in Sandberg & for some reason Theo decided to not cash in on it. Not hiring Ryne was a big mistake. He should be the Manager of the Cubs.

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1. He was managerially developed by the old regime.

2. Some of the players like Castro, Lake, Barney, Castillo... have played for him during the season or spring training. That makes for a weird dynamic. I think they would have felt far too comfortable with him and would have started to tune him out.

3. They planned on losing for at least 2 years while they cleared salary and acquired prospects. It would awfully hard if not impossible to keep the same manager for all the transition stages.


I hate the team he has to deal with in philly. Good luck. A ton of old money and pride on that team. He has already gotten up Howards ass about being lazy and out of shape. He is going to have a storm to weather there for some time unless they start trading away guys like Howard, Rollins, Halladay, Lee.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Theo thought Sveum was too hard on his precious Rizzo and Castro. Can you imagine how hard Sandberg would have been on them?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Oh yeah, you dont want that Becket on your team

THE. MANAGER. DOES. NOT. MATTER.

Beckett's talent no longer makes up for his attitude. Those 2 years he was phenomenal but he is done. His attitude got worse with success. The quick demise of that Boston team was led by him.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Agree. Changing managers is just something to do to show you're doing something.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
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