Thursday, July 22, 2010

Worst job in baseball.


Lou Piniella announced a few days ago that he would be retiring after this season. He had a job when he came to Chicago. His job was to get them a World Series title. He didn't do his job. Now he either thinks he won't ever be able to do it or he thinks that he is just too old. He had some of the best teams in baseball the last few years and he couldn't get it done in the playoffs. Now its time for somebody else to take the role with that job in mind. When you become the Cubs manager you have to win a title. If you don't you are a failure. Going to the Cubs could ruin anybody's career. Lou Piniella could have won more and been a better manager somewhere else. In Chicago looking at his playoff record he was terrible. This job ruins managers. The best thing to do would be hire someone from the team previously and then if they fail, the people in Chicago still love them and their managing career is a failure but that doesn't matter. The one person I can think of that fits that description is Ryne Sandberg. He said he was ready to be the manager, which is him basically saying that he is volunteering. He is loved by the people in Chicago already. If he leads them to a World Series win, then he will be more loved. If he doesn't that has become the norm and the people in Chicago still love him for the player that he was. If you hire any other manager you could ruin them. If I were the Cubs management I wouldn't want to do that to some poor guy who could have become a great manager if he didn't go to the cubs. So I think they should choose Sandberg. The likeliness of that happening is slim.

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