Mike Quade Irked By Dale Sveum’s Comments About 2011 Cubs
You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a Cubs fan that was too disappointed when Mike Quade was fired this past fall.
Theo Epstein decided not to retain him and brought in Dale Sveum, one of the more coveted names out on the managerial market, to replace him.
Quade didn’t have too much to work with in 2011, so obviously not all the blame falls on him, but between his questionable in-game decisions, how poor the team was fundamentally, and his incredibly awful nicknames for apparently every person in the organization, letting him go was the right move.
Since he got the job as the new Cubs’ skipper, we’ve heard all about the change in philosophy that Sveum

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