So now the disagreeable enterprise of parting firm with Cubs supervisor Joe Maddon is finished. Two issues about which are true: It needed to occur, and it’s too unhealthy it got here to this. The man who helped lead the franchise to what had been unthinkable, a World Series title, was additionally the person who oversaw a proficient membership that couldn’t make the most of the open window in entrance of it. The failure wasn’t all Maddon’s fault. He won't even be answerable to 25 % of it. But in sports activities, for those who’re not profitable, you’re on the brink of be requested what you’d like for a last meal. So Maddon was taken away
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Cubs fireplace Joe Maddon? If they do, they’ll merely be making
It’s time, isn’t it? Time for the Cubs to point out us what they’re made from, for higher or worse. Time for his or her star gamers to behave the half or curl up into the fetal place. Time for the workforce’s “October begins in March” rallying cry to be tweaked to “Any chance October will begin a few days early?” Time for all concerned to rise like champions or sink into the abyss. Oh, and one other factor: It’s time for Theo Epstein, and anybody else who may need a say in Joe Maddon’s managerial future with the Cubs, to get a grip. I’m going to interrupt out the S-word right here. Yes, I notice
Joe Maddon: ‘It’s big-boy time’ for Cubs
ST. LOUIS – Cubs supervisor Joe Maddon began August with a number of new toys to play with in his lineup and bullpen. But even with newcomers Nick Castellanos and Tony Kemp making their Cub debuts within the beginning lineup and holdover ace Jon Lester beginning the brand new month on the mound in opposition to the Cardinals, the duty down the stretch appeared loads just like the Cubs’ labor the primary 4 months. The Cubs and Cardinals opened August tied for first, with the Brewers one sport again. And the one factor Maddon knew for certain on Thursday was that there can be no crying in baseball the remainder of the way in which because
Cubs’ Joe Maddon on 2-5 highway journey: ‘We’re higher than that;
LOS ANGELES – A runner thrown out on the plate within the ninth, a line drive that was caught as an alternative of driving in two runs, and identical to that the Cubs misplaced once more on the highway – this time 3-2 to the Dodgers on Sunday evening. It dropped them to 2-5 throughout this two-city journey – 3-10 over their final two highway journeys – and dropped them a recreation behind first-place Milwaukee within the National League Central. But contemplating a few of their bullpen points and prolonged absences of Ben Zobrist and Pedro Strop within the first half, supervisor Joe Maddon received’t complain about the place the group stands three weeks earlier than