Reason for Optimism?
Probably not. However, as the Cubs are doing so horribly miserable, and judging from basically all rumors I hear, not even Jim Hendry is dumb enough to bring Dusty Baker back and the end of the season. Although he is dumb enough to think that waiting until the end of the season to "evaluate" Baker's performance is really dumb and worthless, I just can't see Hendry having a job if Baker returns. Also I would likely kill myself if that happened. But I digress.
So I'm going to resign to the fact that Dusty won't be back. And I'm pretty sure it is in no way due to his terrible 'performance' as a manager for the Cubs, and entirely due to me writing about it for about 8 days. You're welcome Cubs fans. So I'd like to take today to list reasons for optimism for next season, which may cause the Cubs to turn it around.
Dusty Baker won't be back next year. In fact, his entire coaching staff, including Rothschild, should be nowhere near the Cubs bench unless they're all managing for some other poor suckers in the visiting dugout. This way we can bring in a competent coach with a competent staff who can help develop players, instill rules and motivate players. Also, hopefully they won't waste any time talking about 'clogging the bases' and Hank Aaron, even though Aaron had a great OBP, which isn't important to Dusty. I hate him so much.
Reason number 2: Rich Hill. He pitched a gem last night. I can't say that enough. It's too bad he didn't get the win, because he really should have. I think he got his 10th strikeout in the 5th inning. He had everything working. He's realizing his potential, and I'm realizing that I love it. (Ok, technically I realized that a while ago).
Reason number 3: The rookies in general. Murton is hitting very well. He has a professional approach at the plate (most days) and I only see him getting better as he gets more experience and doesn't sit the day after going 3-4. Cedeno tore up AAA last year, then came up and performed well in September, and he started this season out well also. I see no reason to completely write him off because the coaching staff is incapable of actually coaching someone to wait on an off-speed pitch. Ryan Theriot has been overachieving basically everytime he starts, so he could be a useful utility player or possible trade-bait.
Reason number 4: The drop in attendance. Hopefully this will open somebody's damn eyes that despite the great environment of Wrigley Field, the fans don't want to see a shitty product on the field. Of course, this may be the biggest stretch of all my reasons for optimism, because losers have been on the field most of the time and we still love to go. But the team right now is disgusting. I've seen dirty diapers that have looked like daisies compared to this. Of course that's a lie, I've never changed a diaper and the fact that I brought it up is making even myself uncomfortable, the comparison still fits.
I can see the attendance working one of three ways. First, management says, uh-oh, the fans aren't going, we better cut the payroll and raise ticket prices to make up for it. That doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me. The second situation is that nothing changes. Also not entirely unreasonable. The third scenario has management being saying, 'fuck this, we need to make some changes to get this dirty diaper-like into something similar to daisies,' and they fire everyone. MacPhail, Hendry, everyone.
Of course, the most likely thing to occur is that very little or nothing will happen, and then I'll be forced to watch a shitty product on the field that makes me gag at the very sight.
So I'm going to resign to the fact that Dusty won't be back. And I'm pretty sure it is in no way due to his terrible 'performance' as a manager for the Cubs, and entirely due to me writing about it for about 8 days. You're welcome Cubs fans. So I'd like to take today to list reasons for optimism for next season, which may cause the Cubs to turn it around.
Dusty Baker won't be back next year. In fact, his entire coaching staff, including Rothschild, should be nowhere near the Cubs bench unless they're all managing for some other poor suckers in the visiting dugout. This way we can bring in a competent coach with a competent staff who can help develop players, instill rules and motivate players. Also, hopefully they won't waste any time talking about 'clogging the bases' and Hank Aaron, even though Aaron had a great OBP, which isn't important to Dusty. I hate him so much.
Reason number 2: Rich Hill. He pitched a gem last night. I can't say that enough. It's too bad he didn't get the win, because he really should have. I think he got his 10th strikeout in the 5th inning. He had everything working. He's realizing his potential, and I'm realizing that I love it. (Ok, technically I realized that a while ago).
Reason number 3: The rookies in general. Murton is hitting very well. He has a professional approach at the plate (most days) and I only see him getting better as he gets more experience and doesn't sit the day after going 3-4. Cedeno tore up AAA last year, then came up and performed well in September, and he started this season out well also. I see no reason to completely write him off because the coaching staff is incapable of actually coaching someone to wait on an off-speed pitch. Ryan Theriot has been overachieving basically everytime he starts, so he could be a useful utility player or possible trade-bait.
Reason number 4: The drop in attendance. Hopefully this will open somebody's damn eyes that despite the great environment of Wrigley Field, the fans don't want to see a shitty product on the field. Of course, this may be the biggest stretch of all my reasons for optimism, because losers have been on the field most of the time and we still love to go. But the team right now is disgusting. I've seen dirty diapers that have looked like daisies compared to this. Of course that's a lie, I've never changed a diaper and the fact that I brought it up is making even myself uncomfortable, the comparison still fits.
I can see the attendance working one of three ways. First, management says, uh-oh, the fans aren't going, we better cut the payroll and raise ticket prices to make up for it. That doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me. The second situation is that nothing changes. Also not entirely unreasonable. The third scenario has management being saying, 'fuck this, we need to make some changes to get this dirty diaper-like into something similar to daisies,' and they fire everyone. MacPhail, Hendry, everyone.
Of course, the most likely thing to occur is that very little or nothing will happen, and then I'll be forced to watch a shitty product on the field that makes me gag at the very sight.
posted by Jtrouble at 10:56 AM
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