Several years into a rebuilding process that has brought us many future stars we have yet to see any of those stars on the field. We’ve heard how good they are and how good they will be. In the meantime the major league club hasn’t had a winning season or any sort of improvement. We’ve had two managers fired, Quade and Sveum because of Starlin Castro’s lack of focus.

We’re on our third manager in this process and my question is when do the owners get tired of 60 win seasons and start firing some of Theo Epstein’s people if not Epstein himself?

The Cubs want to build up the ball park and certainly have some stars to build around. If you’re a Cub fan or know someone who is they are always at the ready with, “in my lifetime.” I’d like to see them win it all, see some of these stars they’re talking about, this new way of thinking they’re talking about. “In my lifetime.”

Will Rich Renteria become the third manager fired in the Epstein regime knowing that no matter how many free agent signings and mid season trades are made you can’t put lipstick on a pig and make it pretty. Is the Chicago Cubs managing position the great black hole it seems to be where if you cannot win here there goes your career? But even when they were owned by The Tribune Company it was the same thing. Hire a new manager to some fanfare and then saddle him with third rate talent. Not so much in the Jim Hendry era. The team opened up the wallet and let him have free reign to trade and sign whoever he wanted including much maligned Alphonso Soriano. Dare I say that though Epstein ended Bostons long run without a series win that Hendry was a better judge of talent?

There were some lean years with Hendry but still came as close as any other Cubs team to a World Series since the 1984 team which included current Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg. Cub fans not ones to hold back their feelings will not continue to buy into The Epstein regime belief of “it will come.” With the Ricketts family’s grand ideas for the park but a lot of stink on the field, before Renteria goes the way of Mik Quade and Dale Sveum will they get sick of what they’re seeing and make it clear that regardless of pedigree no one is immune to walking papers.