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At the very least reduce the cost of concessions. By the time most people buy a ticket they don't have enough money left for a bag of peanuts.

 

For some reason the Cubs are interviewing him.

 

bww-you better bomb Kapler's car. He will ruin your Cubbies. Take it from a suffering Phillies fan! This guy is a moron.

 

It looks and feels like the job is gonna go to David Ross.

The Kapler interview is odd to me. Unless they are using it to gather some info on something or maybe get his opinion of their roster and so on.

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Epstein has history with Kapler from their Sox days. Gave him a ml manager job when he retired the first time in 2007. Might just want to check in with him and see where he’s at. Could end up hiring him for a different position altogether who knows.

 

run far away from Kapler ! Guy has no business being on a professional baseball team staff.

 

You don’t like Kapler We get it.

 

I thought he was good on that welcome back Kotter show...

 

he will ruin the Cubs! Unless you saw the baffling mistakes he made this year like i did, you have no idea how bad of a manager he is. not about wins and losses. bringing in a reliever without warming him up. having a pitcher play the OF and a OF pitch in the same inning, etc. The guy has no clue what he's doing. It's not just me U Dog, the guy is a total clown.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/joe-maddon-angels-agree-to-three-year-deal-to-become-new-manager/

Joe Maddon headed to the LA Angels on a 3 yr deal !

 

The Angels will have a winning record in 2020 for the first time in 5 years and make the playoffs for the first time in 6.

 

Yes, you really don’t like Kapler. Understood.

All I did was speculate why the Cubs might have interest in talking to him. Didn’t say shit about his ability good bad or indifferent and don’t give one sliver of a fuck who their next manager is.

 

Whatever else happens I think we can declare this as least shocking news of the offseason right now

 

jeez - what's up with you ?

 

Major League Baseball announced on Sunday that umpire Eric Cooper has died at the age of 52. The cause of death is not yet known.

In a statement, commissioner Rob Manfred said, “This is a very sad day across Major League Baseball. Eric Cooper was a highly respected umpire, a hard worker on the field and a popular member of our staff. He also served as a key voice of the MLB Umpires Association on important issues in our game. Eric was a consistent presence in the Postseason throughout his career, including in this year’s Division Series between the Yankees and Twins. He was known for his professionalism and his enthusiasm, including for our international events.”

Manfred also said that Cooper’s memory will be honored during the World Series between the Nationals and Astros.

Cooper began umpiring in the majors in 1999. Highlights of his career include working the 2005 All-Star Game, the 2015-17 Wild Card games, the 2004 and ’15-17 Championship Series, the 2014 World Series, and the 2009 and ’13 World Baseball Classic. He was part of Joe West’s umpire crew that also included Andy Fletcher and Will Little.

 

David Kaplan of NBC Sports Chicago reports that “a highly placed source has confirmed” that David Ross is expected to be named the Chicago Cubs manager this week. Jordan Bastian of MLB.com confirms, saying that, while nothing is official yet, “reports are starting to swirl” that, yes, Ross is going to get the job.

So, yes, it seems pretty apparent that all that we’re waiting for is the official press release.

Ross, who ended his career playing for the 2016 World Series champion Cubs, has no managerial or coaching experience. He has served as a special assistant in the Cubs front office since his retirement while also serving as a TV analyst and played under seasoned managers such as his predecessor, Joe Maddon, Terry Francona, and Bobby Cox. But really, this is a hire based in the perception that Ross can serve as a motivational and unifying force in the clubhouse in ways that Maddon was considered lacking in his last couple of years at the helm.

In handing Ross the job the Cubs are just the latest team to join the trend of turning to an inexperienced, recently-retired player to be their new skipper. The track record for such hires has been mixed at best, with the technical aspects of managing — particularly bullpen management — standing out as weaknesses for such candidates. Heck, if you go back to the 1960s you’ll find examples of managerial inexperience being a problem. Yogi Berra, famously, won a pennant managing the 1964 Yankees yet struggled all season, in part, because he said he had a hard time serving as an authority figure over his former teammates who were his contemporaries and near-contemporaries. He was fired after the season.

I feel like Ross will do OK with that part of things, but given that the Cubs will enter 2020 with pretty big expectations given their payroll and their talent level, he certainly has his work cut out for him.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...-hire-joe-girardi-as-new-manager-reports-say/

PHILLIES HIRE JOE GIRALDI AS THEIR NEW MANAGER!

Christmas comes early !

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...ievance-concerning-service-time-manipulation/

a lot of hot rookies could file this grievance as it happens all the time. i think he has a point but it's on a losing end. no way to prove he needed more days down there to work on defense.