Lou Piniella is Almost Certainly Gone After Next Year
bleachernation.com 4/7/2009 — Manager Lou Piniella is under contract with the Chicago Cubs through next season, 2010. By then, he’ll be 67. And it looks like he’ll be leaving the Cubs. The Yankees could have chosen any team to be their first opponent, but Yankees general partner Hal Steinbrenner wanted ...

Lou Piniella Hates Mark DeRosa, Until He Doesn’t
bleachernation.com 2/27/2009 — Everyone was surprised when the Chicago Cubs dealt Mark DeRosa to the Cleveland Indians for prospects two months ago - well, except those of us who (erroneously) assumed the deal was merely a precursor to a trade for Jake Peavy. Two months later, Mark DeRosa is still surprised . And it sounds ...

Lou Piniella is Getting Kind of Angry, and You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry
bleachernation.com 3/11/2009 — The Chicago Cubs keep losing fake, meaningless, exhibition, practice, unreal, fun-run, Spring Training games. And Lou Piniella is pee-ahssed. He sees the problem, and wants somebody to FIX it. “I’m getting real close to [delivering a team message],” Piniella said. ...

Steve Phillips is an Idiot, and Lou Piniella ‘Bout to Drop Some Knowledge
bleachernation.com 3/3/2009 — Steve Phillips is a former, and completely unsuccessful, MLB general manager. Steve Phillips is a current, and completely unsuccessful, ESPN commentator. Phillips recently picked the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series in 2009, but Cubs fans will forget that quickly now that he and Cubs ...

Lou Piniella Hates the Bullpen
bleachernation.com 4/20/2009 — Effectively tied for first place in the National League Central, having won or split every series of the season so far, it is hard to find things to complain about with this year’s Chicago Cubs team. And yet, one has to look only to the bullpen to realize what is quickly becoming the ...

Sweet Lou Likes Yanks New Digs
nyyankeesrumors.com 4/4/2009 — Piniella, courtesy of the New York Daily News Lou Piniella, who played for the Yankees form 1974-1984, gave the seal of approval to the New Yankee Stadium on Friday night. Piniella, who played in the original Yankee Stadium as well as the remodeled one, said in Mike Puma’s story ...

Piniella on Cubs loss: "Defense? What defense?"
blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com 4/28/2009 — By Paul Sullivan PHOENIX- Perhaps it was understandable the Cubs offense got shut down by Dan Haren on Monday in a 7-2 loss to Arizona. Haren, after all, is one of the best in baseball, and has a 1.54 earned-run...

Lou Piniella Says Fukudome is Batting Second, Which Totally Makes Sense
bleachernation.com 3/12/2009 — For all the hoopla surrounding whether or not Alfonso Soriano would be batting number one for the Chicago Cubs this year, precious little has been said about the rest of the order. Manager Lou Piniella has dropped hints here and there - Derrek Lee is likely to bat third again this year ...

Piniella’s a Dirt Bag? No… This Cartoon Just Sucks
bootleggersports.com 4/16/2009 — "That, son, is Lou Piniella-?? He's the Rod Blagojevich of Major League Baseball." Above, is a not-funny cartoon from a not-good newspaper, the Chicago Sun Times. What is funny is that the dirt-bag, former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich thought it was worth sending to ...

Piniella delivers pep talk to Cubs | cubs.com: News
mlb.mlb.com 2/18/2009 — MESA, Ariz. -- Lou Piniella reminded the Cubs on Tuesday that they set the tone for the past two seasons in Spring Training and had good results. Now, it's time to get back to work. Piniella delivered his spring pep talk prior to the first ...

Gregg beats out Marmol for closer role with Cubs — Latest Sporting News Articles for MLB 3/29/2009
MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella has picked Kevin Gregg to be the team's closer...

Gregg beats out Marmol for closer role with Cubs — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 3/30/2009
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella picked Kevin Gregg to be the team's closer heading into the season.

NOTEBOOK / Cubs pick Gregg to fill closer role — SFGate: Top Sports Stories 3/30/2009
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella picked Kevin Gregg to be the team's closer heading into the season. Gregg beat out Carlos Marmol, the Cubs' top setup man last year. They both spent spring training vying to replace Kerry Wood, who signed with ...

NL Central Watch: Hoffman on DL — Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs :: 3/30/2009
From the "Inside the Cubs" blog: Here's a quick glance at what's happening around the National League Central one week from Opening Day. The Milwaukee Brewers' bullpen blues are back. Trevor Hoffman, the all-time saves leader with 554, was moved to ...

Cubs and Royals tie 8-8 in 10 innings — Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs :: 3/30/2009
SURPRISE, Ariz.---- Rich Harden returned to the mound for the first time since March 15 because of food poisoning and gave up three homers and five runs in the Chicago Cubs' 8-8, 10-inning tie with the Kansas City Royals on Monday.