The not so great northwest

June 19th, 2008 at 03:03pm Gareth Sleger

 

With the firing of John McLaren today, former Cubs manager Jim Riggleman (1995-99) moves from bench coach to manager of the MLB-worst (25-47) Seattle Mariners. Interestingly enough, notorious Cubs manager Lee Elia (1982-83) was hired as the Mariners hitting coach earlier this month.

Now that the Seattle bench coach position is open, why not throw a bone to another ex-Cubs manager? Jim Essian is available. So is Jim Lefebvre, but only if he’s done helping the Riddler fight Batman. By the way, whatever happened to Bruce Kimm?

Entry Filed under: Bruce Kimm, Jim Essian, Jim Lefebvre, Lee Elia, Jim Riggleman