"Michael Lanasa" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I saw a story yesterday that Tribune finally got rid of the editor of
the L.A. Times. Tribune was wanting L.A. Times to fire many people to make
a bigger profit that what they already made. Editor was against it. Editor
got fired. Sounds like Tribune really wants to make more more money. Could
this be another possible sign that they might sell the Cubs?

You wrote:


This is obviously untrue, since the only runs the Cubs ever score are via
solo homers.

In article alotta@fagina.com says...

That's because Dusty and Hendry didn't want to clog any bases with
runners.

Claude wrote:


Claude, I tend to agree with you on this one, however there is one
important distinction that must be made. Dusty was a player's manager,
Girardi was not. Dusty was known as a manager who would back his players
to the hilt, not quash their boorish behavior (Alou stumbling into the
clubhouse hungover, Mercker berating the announcers, Farnsworth and his
behavior...) and validate this behavior. Girardi, on the other hand
dealt with stuff. He got in his players' faces, would not allow
unprofessional conduct and made his players play and act like adults.

Matt Herges, in his interview on WSCR told Boers and Bernstein to call
Scott Olson, the pitcher Girardi berated for arguing with an umpire.
Herges said that Olson would run through a wall for Girardi. Miguel
Cabrera, who was known to have no respect for veterans and managers,
shed tears when Girardi gave his players his farewell speech.

It says nothing to me when players love a manager who lets them run
wild. It says something quite different when players love a manager who
enforce.

DmL

Von Fourche wrote:


It could be that the Lala Times is just a shitty paper, kind of like
how the Cubs are a shitty team.

On 6 Oct 2006 20:43:13 -0700, mishajmo@hotmail.com wrote:


Nah, LA Times is a better paper than the Trib but it only was making a
20% profit, Trib wants 30%. Trib has to boost it's earnings to make
large stockholders happy. Therefore the cost cutting measures at the
LA Times. Cut local coverage, cut national staff, cut, cut, cut.

But they aren't going to sell the Cubs. The Cubs make mucho even with
a high payroll. And we should be glad. I don't know what makes people
think that selling the team will result in any improvement. It is just
as likely to result in an ownership who will cut payroll and squeeze
what it can from the team and then sell the washed up hulk. But then
I'm still looking for a sign that the majority of posters to this
group have the smallest ability to think for themselves. All I get is
Alsip and Mishajo, neither of whom have had any kind of thought since
they left kindergarten.

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