Ask Boston Red Sox fans what they think of Grady Little.

He is no better than Dusty.

You guys seriously need to start engaging your brains. Greg was saying the same stuff about Dusty when he was here and how much he loved it back in Chicago and how he never wanted to leave in the first place. Now he's being asked questions by the LA media, what is he going to say, "no, I want to be back in Chicago"? Of course he is going to be glowing about LA.

And the only reason Greg wants a quieter clubhouse is so he can watch golf on the big screen.

Look, Maddux is a legend, one of my favorite players, but you guys are doing everything but wrap him in an American flag and paint him as this martyr who suffered through 2.5 years begging for a trade when in fact he was an overpaid, over-the-hill, former great, who disappeared for months at a time and did more than his part to ensure we are as bad as we currently are.

"but you guys are doing everything but wrap him in an American flag and paint him as this martyr"

I respect Maddux's approach to the game and I wish we had a manager who taught players how to approach it like Maddux. I'm not saying that Grady Little is that guy; I'm only trying to say that Baker certainly is not, and there's no point having him finish out the season.

I always kind of suspected that Maddux was not a huge
Dusty fan though he never ever said anything. I still remember
when he tried to "cover" when Dusty said he(Maddux) was thinking of retiring but I think it annoyed him.

I think that the statement that summed it all up
was the one after his last start in which  he said
how much he loved Chicago, Wrigley ,playing for the Cubs
and that there was nothing wrong "except the way we have
been playing " ( not the exact words but close). He never
exempted himself from the blame of the teams woes
but there is no question that the situation wore him down
mentally.

Maddux may be past his prime ( kind of hard to stay at that
level anyway) but he is far from "over the hill". In a race &
with a team that has a good IF, he has thrived especially
at pitcher friendly Dodger stadium. The game I was at
last Wed was probably the best one of his I have seen in the last few  years . He has pitched better ones but in getting out
of jams he was amazing but what was great was that he also
hit, pulled of a squeeze and about 5 fielding gems it was
great. Not exactly a "mirage"

I do think Maddux's rejuvanation in LA does say
a good deal about the Cubs especially this year.
( FYI the article must be kidding about Maddux being
"tepid" in his response to a trade to the Dodgers. If you
don't think Maddux ( with a lot of pushing from Boras)
tried to get it done than you probably think Wood will
start 30 games next year). The most depressing part
to me is that he will almost surely pitch two more  years
in LA and then work with the Dodger orginization after
he retires. I am still etnernally grateful for the 2 & 2/3rds
seasons he came "home." I will get to see him one more time
this season, this coming weekend in NYC ( FYI he is 4-1 in
games I have attended this year). I think it is 50/50 that
he might face the Çubs in the upcoming series ( if Dodgers
skip a starter on the off day he will start on the 14th)
I am a Cub fan first but it will break my heart to see him
pitch against them.

Flame on, brother, I couldn't agree more.

And, from an organizational perspective, this point of the season is about letting the young guys play and to see what, if anything, they have to offer the organization down the road.

Besides reluctantly and incosistently playing youngsters, few inexperienced players seem to improve. While it's easy to say that there are only a few weeks left in the season, it's a prime time to set the stage for many of these young guys during winter ball and to establish major league habits. Although I'm not convinced any of the short-term replacements would do any better (i.e. Chris Speier, Dick Pole, one of the minor league managers), Baker clearly won't do so. And even if he did teach them something, evidence suggests that it won't be the kind of lessons that will help improve their play.

I'm just asking...why keep him for the final weeks? Fire him now and start the search for next year. He's not helping the team we cheer for get any closer to the world series and any more time he spends here contributes to the delay.

Yeah, Dusty is terrible but Grady Little are you serious?

Ask Boston Red Sox fans what they think of Grady Little.

He is no better than Dusty".

If your're referring to Little leaving in Pedro during the '03 playoff's then you know as much about baseball as those that were and still are upset about that decision. What would you have done,hmmm? Are you going to lie and say that you would have gone to your bullpen and replace one of the best pitchers in baseball with someone from your unproductive bullpen?

The only comparisons that you can make between the two is that they're both major league managers.

"If he continues to pitch like he has of late, which has been looking more and more like May, June, and July, where will the blame go then"?

Don't take it personally, you make it sound like Maddux stuck a fork in your back. All Maddux did was tell the truth. This is the worst cub team in our lifetime.

According to Maddux the Dodger clubhouse is professional and quiet. I guess he meant it didn't have the varying music being blasted by ten different boom boxes(and I thought that was supposed to end with Sammy's departure).

Look, I don't know if the Dodgers professional clubhouse is do in part to Grady or Coletti,ownership or the players but that's a far cry from the cub clubhouse, where the inmates are running the asylum. Make no mistake about it, the lack of professionalism in that clubhouse is all Baker's fault.