Cubs Team President Andy MacPhail on WGN AM 720 Last Night

Cubs Team President Andy MacPhail was on WGN AM 720 Last Night and he basically did what he always did: told Cub fans to don't worry and be happy.


Here's a bulleted summary of what MacPhail said with comments by this writer in bold:


MacPhail: "It was a bad week."

Seems more like a bad month with yet more ickiness on the way with the fact that of the next 42 games, 39 are against teams with records of .500 and higher.

MacPhail would not answer any questions about Baker. Said that it was up to GM Hendry. Said that Hendry has no intentions of firing Baker at this point in time.

Said that the Cubs need to do better in driving runs in from 3B.

Said that the Cubs understand the need for patience and are trying to teach Murton that.

Why only Murton? Why not the other hackers? Is Murton a scapegoat here?

Said that they did not expect Rusch or Williams to fail as much as they did.

MacPhail said that the Cubs TV situation with the club on so many different stations instead of being on just WGN TV as in the past is "not important."

Said that they are talking about cutting the grass at Wrigley shorter.

What good will that do?

MacPhail: Pitching is "80% of the equation."

So, that is why 3/5ths of the starting rotation are unproven rookies?

Spent a lot of his time talking about the Astros team from last year.

Does this guy really believe that this Cubs team with its plethora of mediocre 2B's can make an epic turnaround? Too bad that this interview was on radio and not on TV where we could look at him talk and judge for ourselves.

Said that DLee was the team's "top free agent signing."

How does he figure that when Lee was already on the team?

For a real time discussion of MacPhail's radio interview, here's a handy link:

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=32153&sid=0e60c3ecb0e93be0a3c9e59f6603d1e6