Lou Pinella coming to the North Side, or so it appears

The Chicago Sun Times reports on Saturday that the Cubs are apparently set on hiring Lou Pinella.

On the surface I say: WHAT? I'd much rather have Joe Girardi, and Pinella's not really all that better than Dusty Baker except for his hard-ass-ness, which is kinda like "whatever," but their on-field managing styles are the same in the sense that they probably would have both given Neifi Perez [that is, American League Champion Neifi Perez] the same number of at bats thus still driving me insane. Additionally, Hawk Harrelson now thinks that if the Cubs hire Pinella then Chicago will have the two best managers in baseball...which is just kind of "lol," but also bad cos it's Hawk. Additionally, Larry Rothschild was Pinella's bullpen coach when he managed the Reds to the World Series. That means they have a history. That means Larry's probably coming back [much to the dismay of Branlee, but much to the joy of F-C friend of the Website and contributor JR Day]. The fact that there are two guys out there who genuinely want the Cubs job [Girardi and Pinella] is astounding, but out of the two of them, Girardi would have been the better choice.

Deeper than that, though: This doesn't really matter. Pinella still doesn't have anything to work with, mostly because Jim Hendry won't give him anything. The Cubs won't make any offseason splashes on the free agent market or the trading block, but whatever moves they make will be minor because for some reason Hendry probably thinks we're only a piece or two away from contending.

On the bright side: Pinella probably won't get more than a two year contract, which is how long Hendry is signed for. Also, Girardi won't be winning anything if he signs with the Nationals.

These two are going to see us to the century mark, and reall, when I say "see us to the centry mark" I mean "see us beyond the century mark," although hopefully they're both gone by year 101.

So really, this hiring [when it happens] willn't matter because we still don't have much talent.

Anyone can have a bad centry...but we're staring a second one right in the face.