Tag Archives: Lou Pinella

Picking Up the Broken Pieces of the 2010 Cubs

Our team just lost consecutive weekend series to the Pirates.  I think that’s the best way to describe this team: we routinely lose to the Pirates.  At least for now.  So where do we go from here?
First, we need Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez to start hitting.  They are the ONLY weak link in our [...]

A Baseball Purist’s Wet Dream

So in last nights game between the Cubbies and Cards, we had an epic matching of wits between managers Lou Pinella and Tony LaRussa.  In the top of the ninth, Lou brought in lefty Sean Marshall with the bases loaded.  After Marshall got the first out, Lou came in to talk to the umpire, apparently [...]