05-29-2010, 01:27 AM
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Butch, I can see why you keep going back to that point of reference.
Dusty's "performance" as a manager in 2005 was truly an all-timer, in terms of stupidity, stubbornness, and total ignorance of the large changes the game had undertaken in the previous few years.
Coming right on the heels of his performance in 2004 (mind-blowingly bad; had the team merely played to its pythagorean record, it would have made the playoffs), you almost couldn't dream up a more perfect scenario for a well-deserved firing.
Yet Jim didn't pull the trigger. And even after the Cubs (and their fanbase...especially their fanbase) suffered through yet <i>another</i> excruciating season in 2006, he STILL didn't fire Dusty. He just let his contract expire.
Does anyone think this kind of GM would even remotely consider firing Lou?
Butch, I can see why you keep going back to that point of reference.
Dusty's "performance" as a manager in 2005 was truly an all-timer, in terms of stupidity, stubbornness, and total ignorance of the large changes the game had undertaken in the previous few years.
Coming right on the heels of his performance in 2004 (mind-blowingly bad; had the team merely played to its pythagorean record, it would have made the playoffs), you almost couldn't dream up a more perfect scenario for a well-deserved firing.
Yet Jim didn't pull the trigger. And even after the Cubs (and their fanbase...especially their fanbase) suffered through yet <i>another</i> excruciating season in 2006, he STILL didn't fire Dusty. He just let his contract expire.
Does anyone think this kind of GM would even remotely consider firing Lou?
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