Why John McDonough Might Work Out
While everyone will definitely cheer the resignation of Andy MacFail, certainly, there are many reasons to dread and fear the hiring of John McDonough as the "interim" team president.
Many other blogs and websites have, quite humorously, already hit on the fact that McDnough is the "Evil Lord" of Cubs marketing. Be that as it may, I actually think this has a reason to work for the Cubs. Heres's why:
1 Within the first 5 minutes of the press conference after it was announced he would be the interim prez, he said "it is my singular goal to bring the Cubs a World Series title", which is something that McFail never said during his tenure. He would always use words like "competitive" and "deep into October", but never use the phrase "World Series title"
By that alone, it may well represent a change in attitude.
2.My daughter attended high school with McDonoughs cousin (though he is probably in his 50s and she in her 20s, in some families, that is not an uncommon age discrepancy). Anyway, his cousin and her entire family are HUGE Sox fans, so I imagine family get togethers couldn't have been much fun for John in the last year or so. I know from my family, last Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, etc, really sucked when we got together with some of the Sox fans in our family. John is definitely in position to chane that. Hopefully, he hs full
Trib financial backing to accomplish that.
3. He may be the "Evil Lord" of marketing, but at least he's good at his job. Too few people involved with the Cubs have been lately.
This could all be false hope. The Trib might handcuff him moneywise. He might be in over his head. He's not a baseball guy. However, the baseball people haven;t done too good lately. Maybe he'll have the passion to win. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
While everyone will definitely cheer the resignation of Andy MacFail, certainly, there are many reasons to dread and fear the hiring of John McDonough as the "interim" team president.
Many other blogs and websites have, quite humorously, already hit on the fact that McDnough is the "Evil Lord" of Cubs marketing. Be that as it may, I actually think this has a reason to work for the Cubs. Heres's why:
1 Within the first 5 minutes of the press conference after it was announced he would be the interim prez, he said "it is my singular goal to bring the Cubs a World Series title", which is something that McFail never said during his tenure. He would always use words like "competitive" and "deep into October", but never use the phrase "World Series title"
By that alone, it may well represent a change in attitude.
2.My daughter attended high school with McDonoughs cousin (though he is probably in his 50s and she in her 20s, in some families, that is not an uncommon age discrepancy). Anyway, his cousin and her entire family are HUGE Sox fans, so I imagine family get togethers couldn't have been much fun for John in the last year or so. I know from my family, last Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, etc, really sucked when we got together with some of the Sox fans in our family. John is definitely in position to chane that. Hopefully, he hs full
Trib financial backing to accomplish that.
3. He may be the "Evil Lord" of marketing, but at least he's good at his job. Too few people involved with the Cubs have been lately.
This could all be false hope. The Trib might handcuff him moneywise. He might be in over his head. He's not a baseball guy. However, the baseball people haven;t done too good lately. Maybe he'll have the passion to win. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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