Nov 24, 2014 | Cubs
Remember a few years ago when the Red Sox went apeshit in the offseason and signed every free agent and then flamed out in September and fired Tito Francona and Theo left and then they hired Bobby Valentine and the team sucked and the Dodgers took all of those bad...
Nov 17, 2014 | Cubs
The Cubs are off to a flying start this offseason, they have already shuffled their coaching staff, then dumped manager Rick(y) Renteria in favor of Joe Maddon, and why yesterday they traded Arodys Vizcaino back to the Barves from which he came, to bring in lefty...
Nov 10, 2014 | MLB
The MLB general managers meetings are held this week in Arizona. We know what the winter meetings, held in December are. But what gets done at the GM meetings? They’re not just an excuse for 30 overpaid (mostly) white dudes to play golf in the desert,...
Nov 7, 2014 | Cubs
Now that the Cubs mercy killing of Ricky Renteria’s career has been completed, they need to get on with the real business of the offseason. Dumping Edwin Jackson. Am I right? Edwin’s due $11 million each of the next two seasons, and he’s been...
Nov 5, 2014 | Cubs
True to his word, new Cubs manager Joe Maddon placed a call to former Cubs manager Rick(y) Renteria not long after the press conference to announce Joe’s hiring. You might think it would be awkward for the old manager to have to talk to the guy who not only...
Nov 4, 2014 | Cubs
It took all of about 180 seconds yesterday for Joe Maddon to do two things…get about a tenth of the way through his press conference preamble, and for the world to see his appeal. If you could just hire any competent manager and hand him the Cubs roster and...
