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• How Long Until Ryne Sandberg Is Managing At Wrigley?

  
  MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — Authority: 430
  So Ryne Sandberg has been promoted from Double-A to Triple-A. He’s now the manager of the Iowa Cubs . If you’ve been following his career path, you know he was the team’s Single-A manager for two years, he spent only last year at the Double-A level, and now he’s a step away from the big leagues. So this all ...
  2 days ago

• Cubs Promote Ryne Sandberg To Triple-A Manager

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 786
  Is this heaven? No, Mr. Sandberg, its Iowa! Reports are that the Chicago Cubs have promoted Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg to the bench in Iowa as the manager of their Triple-A affiliate. Somewhere, Joe Morgan is telling someone that Sandberg cant manage, either. Sandberg has spent most of his ...
  3 days ago

• Enjoy Sandberg while you’ve got him, Des Moines — because he probably isn’t going to be here very long

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Sean Keeler — Authority: 125
  Cubs icon Ryne Sandberg as been appointed the Iowa Cubs manager for 2010 — and hes box-office gold. To quote the late, great Mel Alllen: How ‘bout that? The Chicago Cubs’ hottest prospect in Des Moines this spring won’t be a player at all. Instead, it’s the guy filling out the lineup card. After years of ...
  3 days ago

• Odds and Ends From Monday in Indy

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 583
  Filed under: Braves , Cubs , Mariners , Nationals , Orioles , Rangers , Red Sox , Reds , White Sox Managers of nine different major league teams each had approximately 30-minutes in interview sessions with the media during baseballs Winter Meetings Monday in the Indianapolis, in addition to the announcement ...
  3 days ago

• Piniella Says Window of Contention Still Wide Open for Cubs

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 583
  Filed under: Cubs , NL Central , MLB Hot Stove INDIANAPOLIS -- If nothing else, Lou Piniella still has his sense of humor intact after a season that was among most disappointing in the majors. Whether or not 2010 will be his last season is a question hes obviously grown tired of answering, so when asked again, ...
  4 days ago

• *Screeching Tire Sound* - Lou Piniella May NOT Retire After This Year?

  
  Bleacher Nation | Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, and Commentary — Authority: 478
  It has long been assumed, and indeed confirmed by the man himself, that Chicago Cubs Manager Lou Piniella would be hanging up his clipboard after 2010, the final year of his deal with the Cubs. But now, for the first time, Piniella has left open the door to returning in 2011. Somewhere Ryne Sandberg is spitting. Of ...
  5 days ago

• From: Touching Base

  
  NY Daily News — Authority: 886
  The Red Sox addressed a major need today, signing Marco Scutaro to a two-year, $12.5 million deal that should finally halt the revolving door that has
  1 week ago

• It’s Redsfest Time!

  
  Redleg Nation — Authority: 425
  Okay, enough apathy ; it’s time to work up some enthusiasm. Who is going to Redsfest this weekend? Our buddies at OMGReds and Red Reporter are going; hopefully, we’ll bump into each other at some point. I’ve never attended before, so I’m looking forward to being there on Friday and Saturday. Everyone ...
  1 week ago

• Cubs Choose Not to Offer Arbitration to Harden

  
  Kap's Corner — Authority: 524
  Tonight is the deadline for clubs to offer salary arbitration to their free agents. And for the Cubs, that means they have decisions to make on a handful of players, including starting pitcher Rich Harden and closer Kevin Gregg. I have learned that the Cubs have informed Harden and Gregg as well as outfielder Reed ...
  1 week ago

• Titanic Struggle Recap — Redleg Nation Dream Series, Game Two

  
  Redleg Nation — Authority: 425
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E 1990 Reds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 9 0 1975 Reds 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 X 4 9 1 Time for a recap of tonight’s titanic Strat-O-Matic Dream struggle…. FINAL 1990 Cincinnati Reds 2 1975 Cincinnati Reds 4 WP: J. Billingham (1-0) LP: D. Jackson (0-1) ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Cubs, Bears, Bulls and Ricky Bobby

  
  RosenBlog — Authority: 514
  The Cubs will do almost anything to move Milton Bradley. Yay. One rumor has him to going back to Texas with Rangers pitcher Kevin Millwood moving to the Mets and the Mets sending the Cubs second baseman Luis Castillo,  who hit .302 last season. OK, so he’s not Aaron Miles, but it’s a start. Thing is, Castillo ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Grabow is About to Get Paid

  
  Bleacher Nation | Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, and Commentary — Authority: 478
  The Chicago Cubs are on the verge of doing what they do so well in the Jim Hendry era: resigning the players they want to keep. Unfortunately, they’re also on the verge of doing what they do so crappily: signing middle relievers with short track records of success to contracts for too much money and too many years. ...
  3 weeks ago

• What to Make of the Manager of the Year Award?

  
  Bats — Authority: 628
  The managers of the year were announced Wednesday, and as usual, there were no surprises. The winners were Jim Tracy of the Colorado Rockies and Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels. This is an odd award, isnt it?
  3 weeks ago

• Footprints in the Snow: Cubs

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 583
  by Matt Snyder Filed under: Cubs , NL Central Footprints in the Snow is FanHouses look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. Considering the Cubs were probably the most disappointing team in baseball in 2009, they definitely have their work cut out for them this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Joe Did Not Go

  
  IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS... caught. — Authority: 487
  With a $200 million payroll, a new $1.5 billion stadium despoiled by conspicuously empty seats, anxious, impatient management and fans thirsting for victory after a postseason-less 2008 campaign, and a 15-17 record, 6-1/2 games behind the division leaders five agonizing weeks into the season, a 22-4 loss to Cleveland ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Look at Zambrano and Lackey

  
  Kap's Corner — Authority: 524
  Its amazing to see the reaction anytime I write about Carlos Zambranoand his performance as the ace of the Cubs rotation. If I point outanything negative about Big Z his supporters come rushing to hisdefense. If I say something nice about "Z" those who dont like himbecome very vocal. Yesterday, I talked about free ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sox make a deal (maybe), Yanks make history, Cubs make the usual bad news

  
  RosenBlog — Authority: 514
  The White Sox acquired left-handed-hitting Mark Teahen, according to a report, and I’m thinking, what, Gabe Kapler wasn’t available? If the report is true, Teahen would come from Kansas City in exchange for second baseman Chris Getz and corner infielder Josh Fields. Teahen played every infield position except ...
  5 weeks ago

• Some Ideas for the Cubs

  
  Kap's Corner — Authority: 524
  The Cubs are starting to see the fruits of their labor to improve their farm system, as a handful of top flight prospects are nearly ready to play at the major league level. SS Starlin Castro is probably the closest position player to the big leagues, with 3B Josh Vitters not far behind, especially offensively. So ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ted Lilly Has Shoulder Surgery

  
  Kap's Corner — Authority: 524
  The Cubs have announced today that Ted Lilly had shoulder surgery yesterday afternoon and probably will not start the season in the Cubs rotation. Here is the press release that the Cubs issued today: TEDLILLY UNDERGOES LEFT SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY AND DEBRIDEMENT CHICAGO - Ted Lillyyesterday ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Ricketts kids are alright

  
  RosenBlog — Authority: 514
  First impression of the Ricketts kids, Take 2: Almost perfect. Tom Ricketts and his two brothers and sister went 4-for-5 in their introductory news conference at the new owners-slash-operators-slash-first-fans of the Cubs. Starting with Tom and followed by Laura, Todd and Pete, the Ricketts kids, Cubs fans for at ...
  5 weeks ago

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