A Head Scratcher

Let's figure this out. Larry Rothschild turns down three years guaranteed to go to Detroit and work in a park built to help pitchers. Instead, he stays in Chicago with a broken down pitching staff working for a manager who is on the civic hotseat, if not the corporate hot seat.

Why would he do that? One possible answer is that Rothschild has a huge upside to stay. What could that be? A possible upside would be if Dusty were the fifth name in the Dodgers' managerial search. Were Dusty to leave, Rothschild and Grady Little would be the obvious front runners to replace Dusty. Becoming manager of the Cubs is clearly better than three years in Detroit. Nothing else makes any sense, other than the possibility that Rothschild is a candidate for a pre-frontal lobotomy.

I still don't see Dusty leaving. But there is enough goofiness surrounding this team, this story included, that nothing would surprise me.