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Cubs’ Sad Sack Management Style is Really Getting Old
They project a feeling of helplessness.
On Sunday the Cubs managed to hang to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–3 and take the series two games to one, but all is not well in Cubland. The Cubs’ outfield of Ian Happ. Pete Crow-Armstrong and especially Kyle Tucker hasn’t been getting it done for about a month now. AAA outfield sensation, Owen Caissie, has been called up but has mostly ridden the bench.
The obvious question is, “Why?”
Craig Counsell’s response was , in essence, because we have some good outfielders.
Not for the last month you haven’t.
Like Mongo, Craig Counsell would have you believe the Cubs are just pawns in the game of baseball.
When things go poorly, it just the game. So says Craig Counsell. Just ride things out. It’s like the Cubs are powerless to make a move. If managers don’t matter, why are the Cubs paying Counsell $40 million?
If guys like Caissie are too valuable to trade, why not play them?
How does Sad Sack relate to the Cubs?
Old ones among us might remember Sack Sack as a cartoon character of a World War II private in United States Army…
