10/29/2008

Boy, I wish I had posted that....

From the Peoria Journal Star on 10/28 posted at 9:19pm:

Will Sandberg be leaving Peoria?
The two-year tenure of Hall-of-Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg, above, as manager of the Peoria Chiefs might be over.

The Washington Nationals hired Triple-A Iowa Cubs manager Pat Listach to coach third base next season, creating vacancies higher in the Chicago Cubs organization.

Sandberg returned to the Chiefs for a second year as the Cubs higher-level minor-league managers stayed with the organization after the 2007 season.

Now, with Listach in Washington, there is a vacancy that would allow Sandberg, high-A Daytona manager Jody Davis and Double-AA Tennessee manager Buddy Bailey to possibly advance.

The Cubs will announce their full slate of minor-league managers and coaches next month or in early December.
Wait a minute....
The total guess has to do with this bit of information...
The Nationals announced on Friday that Jim Riggleman, Marquis Grissom, Pat Listach, Rick Eckstein and Randy Knorr will be members of manager Manny Acta's coaching staff in 2009.
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Listach -- who comes highly recommended by Cubs manager Lou Piniella, who is one of Bowden's mentors -- will be the third-base coach and infield instructor. He joins the Nationals after spending the last three seasons compiling a 231-189 record managing in the upper levels of the Cubs' farm system.
The upper levels last year was Iowa in the PCL. Follow me here. Listach moves out. There is an opening. Other managers -- like Ryne Sandberg and Jody Davis -- in the Cubs organization move up. Peoria gets a new manager in 2009*.

There is the total guess.
Posted on 10/28 at....7:50.....am. Happy to help, PJ STAR!

Kidding. Kidding.

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