Rich Renteria an underwhelming pick to manage the Cubs, exchanging one Dale Sveum for another. Smartest they could’ve done was put Ryne Sandberg as manager of the guys coming up had played for. Certainly Castro and Barney. Speaking of the Cubs infield. In order for them to compete in the toughest division in the National League.

The Bryant kid will have to play first base. Valbuena will have to play third base. Castro and Rizzo will have to go via trade. The Cubs will have to sign veterans in the outfield and teach they kids how to win.

Are we as Cubs fans willing to wait for all of this to shake out? The Cubs have had losing seasons before. That was before I learned what you get if you win. Selling your veterans for draft picks is as old as time. For the only professional club in the world that hasn’t won a damned thing in over one hundred years they don’t seem to be in any hurry to placate their fans. They’d rather waste money turning Wrigley Field into a monstrosity. People were screaming for a single owner for the Cubs. “A media company doesn’t know how to run a team.” The Ricketts haven’t had a winning season since they’ve owned the team.

To me the situation seems even more scatter brained than when they were owned by the Tribune Company. In my opinion the owners want to turn not only the ball park but the neighborhood into a circus. You start to wonder how a club goes one hundred plus years without winning it all. There are more teams. Better teams. Better scouting including into Latin America. Better Minor league systems to keep teams on top of their divisions for years.

Why should we wait to see if any of this will come to fruition? Why should we wait we continue to watch  ticket prices go up while batting averages go down? Because we hate the White Sox too much  and choosing the Cardinals is too easy. Milwaukee is in no better shakes. Pittsburgh is probably the best choice but who knows how long they’re going to be good. Texas. Detroit. Boston. A designated hitter should never be MVP! He doesn’t have to play the field. Major League Baseball having been beaten out by the NFl as the country’s favorite sport. It is a nuisance as people flood the neighborhood with noise. Outside the park you can tell who won when you hear fans are singing, “Go Cubs Go.”

When the ball park goes dark in late September for construction. Another season with more losses than wins.

Welcome Rich Renteria. Welcome to the circus. I’m sure you’ve heard the not to unpack your suitcase jokes. You’ll be back in San Diego before you know it. There’ll be questions of why we gave up Quade, Sanberg and Sveum. The answer will be on the Cubs new jumbotron. Castro drifting off to sleep. You think Alex Gonzalez blew it in 2003 who would trust Castro in a similar situation? No one in St. Louis or Boston is asking that question.

Why should we put up with it as Cub fans? Why the hell should we continue to care? If they do win it all do we come running to revel in the madness? Do we occupy the streets of Wrigleyville so that we can say that we’ve been there and have seen a Cubs World Series victory in our lifetime. I predict we’ll be looking for a new manager in two years and the Cubs still won’t be any closer to 80 victories. Anone can have a bad century. The way things are looking it could another hundred and baseball could be played on another planet by then.