This pretty much says it all

Paul Sullivan was struggling to come up with ideas for his next Cubs article last night, so he decided to have a little chat with Dave Dombrowski, GM for the Detroit Tigers. The AL champion Detroit Tigers (eat it Sox fans).

Anyways, the gist of the short article on chicagosports.com is that Dombrowski believes the Cubs can be capable of pulling off a quick turnaround, as the Tigers did this past season.

Now, Paul Sullivan is insane. This piece of garbage is terrible. Of course, I was kind of looking for something to mock (I thought it would be something out of Jim Hendry's mouth of course) while looking at the site, but, I found this jewel instead.

First, Dombrowski said that a lot of things have to break right for you. Of course, being the Cubs, that is virtually impossible. Nothing breaks right for us, unless it's our hope or a bone in one of our best players.

Then Sullivan goes on to say that the Tigers had to overpay for free agents to get them there. This is where he stops making sense. Remembering correctly, the Cubs were interested in the services of both Magglio Ordonez and Ivan Rodriguez. So, in comparison, the Tigers paid more than the Cubs, but the Cubs weren't willing to take the risks.

So, instead, the Tigers made a brilliant contractual decision. The money was guaranteed, but there were stipulations in the contract that would void it in a shorter amount of time. For instance, and this is from memory, so it may not be entirely accurate, but Magglio Ordonez got something like a 4 year contract. However, he was coming of major knee surgery and no one was sure how he'd recover. So the Tigers put in a stipulation that if he spent something like a month on the D.L. due to his knee, they could opt out of the contract after 2 years. Similarly, the same type of deal was made in regards to Ivan Rodriguez's back.

So, if instead of just paying outright, the Cubs had actually made a decision that would work out well, we might be in a better situation. Like the World Series. Or, if we'd signed Jacque Jones to a 3 year deal (really? Why 3 years? That is ridiculous) with the stipulation that if you hit under .200 for April then you are kicked off the team, you're not paid a dime, and you have your face eaten off by wild pigs. Seems fair to both sides to me.

Another thing Dombrowski said, which may or may not have been a jab, but Sullivan printed it anyways, was that the Cubs were almost in the World Series a couple of years ago, so you'd think they would have had more of a foundation than the Tigers had when Dombrowski took over.

Why, yes, you would think that. But then you would also be thinking logically, which is of no use to us in this organization. In three short seasons, the Cubs managed to go from almost winning the NL to the bottom of the NL and that is without having a firesale! The Marlins had a firesale and they're still better than us!

So maybe Sullivan is writing about being able to have a quick turnaround from being a good team to being terrible? Because they Cubs have proven they're great at that.

Note: Until I see this team play under Piniella, I'm going to be extremely skeptical of everything unless some good moves are made this offseason. Also of note, goatriders.org has a great article on the investment groups possibly positioning themselves to buy the Tribune.