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#Post#: 33036--------------------------------------------------
Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: Santo4HofF
Date: September 14, 2011, 6:46 am
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If Tony LaRussa was introduced as manager of the Cubs on opening
day, he would get loudly booed.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: Cactus
Date: September 14, 2011, 8:47 am
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--- Quote from: Santo4HofF link ---
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> If Tony LaRussa was introduced as manager of the Cubs on
opening day, he would get loudly booed.
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It would start at the Cubs convention.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: JR
Date: September 14, 2011, 9:15 am
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> If the Cubs hire Walt Jocketty that might lead to him bringing
in Tony LaRussa . . .
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Hey Walt Jocketty as GM could also mean the return of Dusty!
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: September 14, 2011, 9:26 am
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If LaRussa were named manager, the two faced jerk would say all
the right things to win over as many fans as possible to
overshadow the boo crowd. But I think even HE has said that he
could never manager the Cubs.
#Post#: 33091--------------------------------------------------
Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: DelMarFan
Date: September 14, 2011, 11:35 am
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I remember thinking that I'd never be able to cheer for Jim
Edmonds, too.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: Clarkaddison
Date: September 14, 2011, 1:46 pm
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It's just another hack beat reporter playing Phil Rogers.
Jocketty is 60, and most likely an old school guy. Ricketts is
looking for somebody who is going to be around for a while, with
a combination of sabermetrics and scouting. Jocketty doesn't
fit.
LaRussa is the most far fetched of all. He has been quoted that
he'd never manage the Cubs, and even though I eventually
accepted Edmunds I'd never accept LaRussa.
#Post#: 33200--------------------------------------------------
Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: September 14, 2011, 4:37 pm
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Be careful with the "never" word. If he won us a WS, we'd
accept him. Or except him. Whichever.
But it's not going to happen, so why fret?
#Post#: 33970--------------------------------------------------
Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: Cactus
Date: September 19, 2011, 1:22 pm
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> Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts has decided to keep the Cubs’
player development staff intact for 2012 while he searches for a
new general manager. Fleita recently received a four-year
contract extension while Wilken is under contract for next year
and on Monday, was assured that the team wants him to stay.
>
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: Cactus
Date: September 19, 2011, 2:49 pm
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> Ricketts met with scouting director Tim Wilken for roughly 90
minutes on Sunday and gave him the authority to renew contracts
– which are set to expire at the end of October – and make new
hires within his department.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
DIR By: craig
Date: September 19, 2011, 6:43 pm
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Thanks, Cactus, interesting stuff. I think that makes a lot of
sense. I'd never known what the timeline was for scouting
contracts. End of October makes sense (jives with the player
contract year, more or less.)
I think keeping Wilken and renewing contracts makes sense.
Otherwise, if all the scouts know everything is up in the air
and that a new GM won't be coming in until October and that
Ricketts may or may not want Wilken back, any of the good scouts
would be well motivated to be talking to their friends in the
industry and lining up other jobs.
If I'm the South Florida area scout, and I know some scouting
directors whose Florida scouts are retiring and need somebody,
and if I know I'd get a raise and be in a good organization, why
not take that, rather than wonder if a GM to be named later will
bring in a new scouting director to be named later who might
have his own favorite scouting buddy who really likes South
Florida as his preferred area? The risk that a new guy might
give my area to his friend could be pretty significant. If I'm
good and confident and have no doubt that they'll want to keep
me, and if I don't mind if I get relocated to Colorado or the
Virginias or whenever, I might be fine to stay with the Cubs.
But if I had family reasons or scouting connections that were
kind of tied to a particular reason and I didn't want to move, I
think it would be pretty uneasy.
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