It depends on what strategy Hendry will take with the 2007 Cubs, but
I assume his strategy will be to not have a strategy; fill in
perceived holes with middling talent.

These are my choices:
1. Larry Dierker
2. Davey Johnson
3. Bruce Bochy (if available)
4. Joe Girardi
5. Terry Francona (if available)

Michael Lanasa wrote:


Ken Macha is still at the top of my list. Not sure who I would want
after that.

Lance

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:19:05 -0500, Michael Lanasa <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:



Where's Lou Pinella?

Lou WILL be the Cubs '07 Mgr.

Major

Lou Piniella
Art Howe

The old geezer

I think I would like to see Girardi as the Cubs manager. Look what he did
with the 15 million dollar pay roll in Flordia. Imagine what he can do with
the Cubs pay roll.



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Michael Lanasa wrote:

A nice list, but I think you are being presumptious about
the GM slot. MacPhail had two responsibilities -the business
end and the baseball end. As far as I know, he did pretty well
on the business end; he was judged a failure on the baseball end.
Really though, wasn't his job to choose and advise the GM.
I can't say how you get rid of a guy for entrusting the team
to Hendry and then keep Hendry.

Why is he still there then? I conjecture that the team needs
a GM even now - to deal with minor league free agency,
assemble information for the Rule V draft, etc. They are not
yet ready to hire the new permanent GM. Why fire Hendry and
hire an interim guy when a well-supervised Hendry can do all
these functions equally well. Also, given Hendry's success
with the minor league system and his contract, my preference
would be to re-assign him in the organization.

Incidentally, I think the Cubs will have a strategy in 2007.
I think the typical Hendcry approach is exactly what the
Trib will not live with.

ray heitmann

User Name <heitmann@math.utexas.edu> wrote in
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I'm not totally following you. Is it your contention that Hendry
will not be the GM for much longer? So basically Hendry right now
is the interim guy?

"User Name" <heitmann@math.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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Why fire Hendry and

Do you think McDonough will do a better job supervising Hendry than McPhail?

Am 2 Oct 2006, Michael Lanasa schrieb:




Then what difference does it make who manages? There is no hope if
Hendry stays.

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Am 3 Oct 2006, User Name schrieb:


But why not? It appears that MacPhail knew for a while that TribKo
was going to shake up the front office, which means that the Tribsters
have had time to look -- if they wanted to. So why didn't they?

Maybe they've had to wait to start the search now. I don't know why
this would be -- protocol? -- but I suppose it's a possibility.
Alternatively, they might have found someone, but that person is under
contract somewhere else (a playoff team?) Or, perhaps the Tribsters
just like Jimbo, which means MacPhail was pushed out for other
reasons. Maybe he rubbed someone the wrong way, slept with someone's
wife, or joined the wrong faction. Given the recent "success" of the
TribKo operation, we can't assume that people know what they're doing.

My theory is that TribKo is shopping the team around, and cleaning out
the front office is preparation for the sale. They wanted to lop off
the head so the team is ready for the new regime's brain transplant.
Dusty probably didn't get a renewal more because MacPhail and Hendry
became lame ducks sometime in the middle of the season and less
because he's a bad manager. In the meantime, as Ray points out, they
still need someone to administer the day-to-day, regulatory mechanisms
of the team's metabolism, and Jimbo does have that contract extension
(which looks it might have been the last blunder MacPhail was allowed
to make).

Upon further reflection, it occurs to me that things at TribKo may be
too chaotic and unpredictable for there to be a coherent plan. Surely
the Tribsters handling the ball club are part of the internal power
struggles and have to worry about hostile takeovers, bankruptcy,
stockholder revolts, etc. The profitable divisions of the
conglomerate probably get a somewhat lower priority when it comes to
planning.

But what do I know?

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