Cubs 101 - Pt. 58 - The Return of the Mad Dog

Rob:For a franchise convinced that Joe McCarthy couldn't manage; traded Billy Herman for spare parts; sent away Lou Brock for dead arms; swapped Bill Madlock for someone with half his talent and twice his salary probably because of his deep dark tan; gave up on Raffy Palmiero because he a) didn't have enough power or b) wasn't very selective on which teammate's wives to sleep with; and most recently, bid against themselves en route to signing Alfonso Soriano to a contract equal to the GDP of half of Asia, there is one filthy, lousy, miserable, low, stinking travesty of a mistake the Chicago Cubs have made in their long, pathetic history of General Managing. Your favorite team let the best pitcher of the last half of the 20th century walk away over less than $5 million, which in today's dollars, equates to Carlos Zambrano's annual Red Bull allowance. I was 28 years old when it happened, but even now I do believe the day Greg Maddux signed the first...