Per Carrie Muskat, Chris Bosio will be the Cubs new pitching coach. The official announcement will be next week. Bosio pitched with the Mariners and Brewers, no-hitting the Red Sox in 1993. He retired in 1998 and has largely worked in pitching instruction since. He worked with the Mariners minor league organization as a pitching coach after retirement, and later …
Cubs Hire Sveum to Take Blame For Stuff
Dale Sveum is the new Cubs manager and people are already bitching about him. Booooo! He’s not Ryne Sandberg! Booooo! He’s not Mike Maddux! Booooo! He’s not Terry Francona! Booooo! He’s not DeMarlo Hale! (OK, that is just from Hale’s mom.) I don’t know much about Sveum. I’m vaguely familiar on how to pronounce his name since I Wikidedia’d …
Terry Francona wants Cubs job?
Dave Van Dyck is reporting that a source close to Terry Francona is saying that Tito “deep down” badly wants to manage the Cubs. For his part, Francona says he is “trying to stay under the radar” with his unspoken candidacy, but a source very close to him says “deep down” he badly wants to manage the Cubs — for …