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...This will be Cubs manager Lou Piniella's sixth trip to the playoffs since 1990, the year he led the Cincinnati Reds to the title. In all that time, he hasn't gotten back to the Series. Here's a guy who has won everywhere he's been (can we just exclude that stint in Tampa, where God would have lost with those Devil Rays?), reversing the fortunes of the Reds, the Seattle Mariners and now the Cubs. He's long been one of the best in the game, and it's about time he ended that drought. "I would...
...Piniella, 65, is more balanced and composed now than in his younger days. He no longer tosses bases or crushes watercoolers - except on the TV ads that play on his feisty image. "With his reputation, you're expecting this guy to be yelling and screaming every day," says Chicago first baseman Derrek Lee, a Cub since 2004 (Piniella joined the team last season). "It's not really like that." McCarver, a longtime friend of Piniella's, has seen a new Lou too. "His transformation has been more than subtle," he says. Yes, he's still brutally honest with his players...
...PINIELLA, Chicago Cubs manager, arguing that the new system will slow down the game and could be used as a tactic to disrupt pitchers' rhythms...
...thought that did come to my mind, strangely enough, is, 'Boy, this city suffered a lot, and tonight they let out a lot of emotions.' And I felt good for them in that way," Seattle Mariner Lou Piniella said after losing the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees. "And that's a strange thought to come from a manager who is getting his ass kicked...
Yankee haters, and this would include roughly anyone who lives outside the New York metropolitan area as well as a million Mets fans within, could perhaps forgive Piniella for such blasphemy. After all, he once wore the fabled pinstripes. But as the Yankees headed into their 38th World Series, the team that only a network television executive could love became the standard bearer for a shattered city and a wounded country. Something unthinkable is happening among baseball fans: this year they happen to like New York. It happened in Chicago. It happened, gasp, in Boston, where fans sang New York...