blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com - 11/13/2008
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The pressure of trying to win on the 100th anniversary of the Cubs last championship season was one of the reasons for their spectacular downfall.
At least that's the opinion of Cubs manager Lou Piniella, who earned his third Manager of the Year award on Wednesday for guiding the Cubs to 97 regular season wins.
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CHICAGO -- Lou Piniella, who guided the Cubs
to the best record in the National League, was
named Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Wednesday. It's the third time Piniella, 65, has won the award and first time in ...
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Piniella honored as Manager of Year | cubs.com: News
blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com - 11/13/2008
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By Paul Sullivan The Kerry Wood era in
Chicago began with a bang and ended with a
thud. On a cloudy November afternoon in Chicago, the Cubs quietly cut ties with their free-agent closer, who tied a major-league record with...
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Cubs wave bye to Wood
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A League of Her Own —
... From what I saw in the summer, yeah, he can play some center field."
• On whether Alfonso Soriano will again bat leadoff: "You look at our record when Alfonso led off and it was darn good. I don't know what's going to happen over the winter."
• On whether he'd prefer a left-handed bat at the leadoff spot or in the middle of the order: "We need a good left-handed hitter we can put in the middle part of our lineup. Offensively, that would make a big difference."
Lou donates $100K bonus to Cubs Care
But there are some more quotes here, ...
Lou Piniella On Existential Loss
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... to think created the “constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”
Me? When I lose something important, I always feel deflated, like someone literally let the air out of me. It’s weird, because you never feel “inflated.” You just feel normal. And then, bam. Like your chest is sinking in on itself.
That sounds about like the Cubs 2008 playoff run. Everything good, everything fine, and then bam: deflation.
Or, as Lou Piniella would put it:
“It felt like we got run over by a semi truck,” ...
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