This is your (monthly?) reminder that, while Bleacher Nation is most notably found here in the confines of “www.bleachernation.com,” it also exists elsewhere on the Web. Not every pithy bit, interesting discussion, or funny picture makes it here to the site – which is why you should strongly consider following Bleacher Nation on Twitter and “Liking” BN on Facebook, if you don’t already.
On Facebook, sometimes I throw up pictures and discussion items not quite suitable to a full-on post here at the site. I also post every BN article there, so, if you’re a Facebooker, it’s a handy way to know when there’s new content up on the site.
BN on Twitter is pretty much what you’d expect it to be: short (and informative?) items, re-tweets of relevant/interesting info, and – as on Facebook – a link to every new BN article.
And, sometimes on Twitter, I push people to mash-up Beatles songs and sabermetric concepts in a tribute to the Cubs’ new management group, and it takes off to hilarious effect, and winds up on 670 The Score.
Last night, Twitter user Eli Gieryna sarcastically suggested that something ESPN’s Jon Greenberg had said about the Beatles and Theo/Jed/Jason sounded like a “terrible hash tag meme.” Given my prior discussion of the new guys as the Beatles, and their affinity for advanced statistics, I decided to make that sarcastic suggestion a reality. Fifteen hours and hundreds of tweets (by dozens of people, many of whom have probably never heard of Bleacher Nation) later, I’d say it was a success.
To see what I’m talking about, check out #SabrBeatles.
Among the winners: “We Can VORP It Out,” “Back in the UZR,” “You’ve Got to Hide Your Bunts Away,” “Revolution K/9,” “LOOGY in the Sky with Diamonds,” “Day xFIPper.” A few of mine: “I Want You (Linear Weights Are So Heavy),” ”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Mathematician’s Club,” and “Your Mother Should Know (About Regression to the Mean).”
Funny stuff – and the kind of thing that is, by its very nature, the exclusive province of Twitter.
LOL! Love “LOOGY in the Sky with Diamonds”.
PHOTOSHOPPERS – HEED MY CRY – GET TO WORK PUTTING THEO, TOM, JED and crap I cant remember the 4th Sabrbeatles name, ON THE HEADS OF THE ORIGINAL BEATLES…oh, ya, its JASON – MAKE SURE HE IS THE ALWAYS FORGOTTEN BEATLE, WHATEVER THAT GUY’S NAME WAS
Quade will not return in 2012 per Theo press release
Champagne for everyone!!!!
Brett better not have called it a night
AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING!!!
I was reading your article about the Phillies newest minor league manager when my sportscenter update came across the wire….MMMMMMMMMMM indeed!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-quade-20111101,0,1100346.story
Here is a link to the press release.
“you’re sooo fired” #sabrbeatles
The press release specifically states that the new manager must have experience as a manager or coach at the major-league level. That’s a not-too-subtle message that Sandberg is not a candidate.
Maybe a coach on the big league squad – the only problem is that if you make him Bench, 3b, 1b, etc… coach he then becomes the MLB equivelant of the Backup QB that many college FB fans love…
Or the next Tebow situation
I’m OK with it not being Sandberg. I just could not see anyway possible for Quade to fit with the vision for the future of this club. Start building now! Bold changes indeed!
Mike Maddux, with Sandberg as bench coach?
I just saw the breaking news on ESPN. I am excited to see who they bring in! Thew wings of change are blowing!!
Winds…stupid auto check. Lol
Pat Listach waiting by the phone
Question how does Joe Cowley become the first to report this story, who is his inside Cubs source?
The Cubs sent out a mass press release. Whoever happened to be by their e-mail at that moment got it first.
And whoever happened to be busy working on a photoshop did not…
We will forgive you if your photoshop efforts are worthy.
I think the only fitting song title has no pun but is pretty straight forward from Cubs fans to the new regime… “HELP!”
Those are awesome sing titles. As an enormous Beatles fan I’m loving it.
While Mike Quade Gently Weeps
quade’s gone–espn.com
And there was much rejoicing.
“The Quade” is gone.
Well done Katie!
Hey, thanks! I’m loving the combining of 2 of my favorite things.
Cry Qball Cry
Lovely Theo
You Never Give Me Your Prospects
Theo’s Silver Hammer
(I realize these have nothing to do with sabermetrics but I’m having fun)
Well, so much for the Sandberg speculation. Fine by me. We need someone who has hands on experience at the Majors level. We are changing the Cubbie Culture, which means go with a proven commodity and not a sentimental favorite. Sandberg may eventually prove to be very good but I don’t think it is a good idea to experiment at this time. Time is a wastin’.
Mike Quade has been fired per espn
Dan Bernstein on 670 the score says per his source francona is very much in play for manager job.
What are the odds Sandberg would accept a bench job? Probably slim to none…
Close to 100%, unless he has an offer to manage another major league team on the table. He wants to manage in the majors, and bench coach is a solid step in that direction. Why wouldn’t he take it?
Thought he said last season he would not accept a bench job, only a managerial job. Pretty sure he said he would rather manage in the minors than be a bench coach in the majors.
Doubt it – that’s the usual progression path, and he wants to end up a manager in the bigs. He’ll take a bench job if that’s all he can get this year.
Hope you’re right and I hope he’s at least a bench coach with US and not the deadbirds!
I would say there is a 0% chance that the Cubs would offer him the bench coach job though. Think about the messy situation that could create in a year when the Cubs have an awful record (the will) and some other team comes a callin for Ryno. The less educated Cubs fan (people outside of the BN community, of course) would be clamoring to fire whoever was in place and promote Ryno. It would have to be manager or nothing for him to come here, and it looks like the latter. In Theo We Trust
Julio, this is what I think too, but I really would love to see Ryno on the bench for us in 2012 even if it is a hitting coach job, etc. Maybe our Theocracy can do some voodoo magic to convince him to take a bench job.
Sandberg next jog is first base coach ….and why not with the Cubs?…not ruled out by anyone…
He was reported in a few places as having said that he would refuse a non-manager job with the Cubs, and those reports were widely circulated, but I think they were pure fiction. He is repeatedly on record as saying he wants to manage in the majors, and that he will do what it takes to reach that goal. He’s too smart to be petty about his title so long as he is moving towards that goal.
The Cardinals has asked permission from the phillies to talk to ryne sandberg for manager job per Ken Rosenthal.
Also heard Tito was spotted in St. Louis today…Sucks we are competing with the deadbirds at manager now.
Gotta love the “dynamic trio”. They are not dicking around and so far making all the right moves. So long Queie! When he showed up to the front office meeting with “hi Eppy, hello Hoy, it was the beginning of the end.
Well played boyz, well played. Manager in place by the organizational meeting in a couple weeks? I would think so.
Sandberg to the deadbirds? I wouldn’t know how to handle that. Do I continue to respect him for what he was or despise him for being the enemy manager?
Don’t think for a minute Theo and Jed don’t have someone already in mind for the job. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the ink is currently drying out on a contract with said person as I type this. These guys know what they want, and odds are they will get it!!!
You nailed it Rancelot. They wouldn’t have narrowed down the search field so much be stating it could only be somebody with Major League experience if they didn’t have a good idea of who they wanted and that that person would be very interested. I think the “week” for the Quade announment was shortened to one day because we are ready to move forward.
Theo saying a decision about Quade “in about a week” and the axe falls the next day certainly makes it reasonable to think a managerial announcement on the replacement will be next week…certainly by the time the org meetings commence in a couple weeks!
Can’t believe the deadbirds are considering Sandberg as manager. The reason
the Cubs are not considering him is because he has “no” big league managerial
experience. Replacing LaRussa with Sandberg would make no sense. I agree
with Luke and Brett, Sandberg gets job as bench coach for Cubbies and works up.
Brett,
You just told math jokes! That’s why I love this site.