MLB Tribune

Cubs Better Off without Lou

by Scooter on 07/20/2010 in MLB News

Lou Piniella’s fire is more like a fizzle and the man who had a 30 year career in MLB will retire at the end of the season. The once fiery manager has lost a few steps and words in between those steps. Cubs fans were sure that sweet Lou would have won a championship since my great grandmothers tenth birthday.

A team that has not been crowned a champion for more than a century, and not even Piniella could muster the challenge.

He won two World Series with the Yankees as a player and managed the 1990 Cincinnati Reds to another championship. The 116 regular-season victories his 2001 Seattle team put up will be nearly impossible to top. Piniella has 1,826 wins as a manager, 14th most in history. Nine ahead of him are in the Hall of Fame. Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre will be there. Only Gene Mauch isn’t, and his winning percentage was .483. Piniella’s is .519.

That’s a great resume, but for Cubs fans, it is meaningless. Oh Lou, what will you do? Who knows, but surely the man who once had a fiery attitude, has faded into a smoke signal and hopefully he will challenge himself to the greens and not ever another diamond.

Good luck sweet Lou!