Marc: Good Bye, Sweet Lou Piniella

Piniella, always worried about his pitching staff, hit upon the notion of going with a four-man rather than a five-man rotation. His next comment was priceless. ”Now at four in the morning it seemed to work for me,” Piniella said. “Whether it works at 7 o’clock at night or 1:30 in the afternoon, I’m not sure.” Exactly. What seems like gold at 4:00 a.m. often looks like something a lot less valuable in the cold light of day. In any event, we may never know if another of Lou’s middle-of-the-night brainstorms is a keeper, since he vows he is done with the dugout and, finally, really going to hang it up/ Marc Johnson , The Johnson Report. More here . (AP file photo: Paul Beaty — On his next-to-last game as a Major League manager, Chicago Cubs Manager  Lou  Piniella yells at home plate  umpire  Dan Iassogna after Atlanta Braves Saturday. )

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Question: What do you remember fondly re: former Seattle Mariners manager Lou  Piniella, who retired from managing the Chicago Cubs Sunday?