The not so great northwest

Add comment June 19th, 2008

 

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?