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Cubs Pick Up Pinella's Option Through 2010

Based on my name, this is great thing. Keep those child support checks coming, but in all seriousness this is great. Lou has brough something to this franchise, along with Jim Hendry, that the Cubs have not seen in.....well forever. Winning is fun, and Lou has brought the fun and "swagger" to Chicago Cubs baseball that all of us have wanted for so long.

Congrats Lou. Well played Jim; he deserved it.

 

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For those interested

Here’s the link.

I had actually just posted and you beat me by a few seconds.

Congrats to Lou. I imagine that this was done with Lou’s wishes in mind as well. Had he not wanted to be here beyond 2009 or even 2008 I’d guess they would have waited on this.

DmL

by dmlichte on Sep 30, 2008 5:14 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I was just gonna ask for that

Thats good, I was a bit worried at first he’d be 3 years and gone b/c of his age….gives the Jody Davis v Ryne Sandberg debate more time to ferment.

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Sep 30, 2008 5:20 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This was pretty much a no brainer but none the less

is wonderful news. He makes all the difference in the world.

Dallas Green!

by SonnyJ9 on Sep 30, 2008 5:17 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Great move by the organization

It just seems to me that Lou and the organization works very well. Unlike the Raiders and the Rams, it just seems that Lou and the Cubs have a lot of respect for each other.

by aznsensation on Sep 30, 2008 5:48 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Great move

like stated previous Lou just gives us that swagger. He believes in the players and the players believe in him.

by bizzle4 on Sep 30, 2008 7:02 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That is great news

I don’t want this to be a one year thing and then slip back into mediocrity. Does it seem like the best managers are those guys who you remember as being good players before being managers? I don’t mean just having been a player somewhere like most of the recycled managers today who just play musical chairs around the leagues; I mean the guys who were really good and competitive and played on good teams: Lou, Joe Torre, etc, Dusty was a player but I don’t think on anyone’s “A team.” I don’t think there are too many modern equivalents of Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Sparky Anderson, Leo Durocher. The pool is too watered down.

We’ve got a keeper now and I;m glad to see the club sees that and wants some life to this run of success.

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Sep 30, 2008 7:42 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This is a 2 year thing

So we’re already better than Dusty.

by ak123 on Sep 30, 2008 7:44 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm still in denial from that Grapes of Wrath Dusty Bowl period: did we just have the toothpick habit for one year? I thougt it was more.

I haven’t been very well positioned to keep current the last 5 years but I’m back on active Cub fan duty this year.

Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Sep 30, 2008 7:51 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Thank you for posting this...

… I was out earlier this evening. This gives the organization some continuity with ownership changing, and a successor past 2010 can be groomed. Great news.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 30, 2008 9:07 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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