I don't know any of these guys, of course. I think Bullinger's idea is interesting, that Cashman might be happy to get a fresh start with different ownership and a different media market. Of course, I have zero idea whether or not Cashman is actually any good as a GM, or would help the Cubs. He inherited a bunch of young stars and had a limitless payroll. I have no idea how he'd do if he came into a deal where he inherited Tyler Colvin, Tony Campana, Casey Coleman, and Randy Wells, that's not quite Jeter, Mariano, Posada, and Bernie Williams. And with a $125 payroll instead of $203, that could be a little different. Might be different without the ability to have a dozen starters with averages salary of $14, and then still have $35 million left to fill out the rest of the roster.
Friedman obviously seems like the guy. He's young, energetic, really smart, and has been enormously successful within very limited resources at Tampa. If he was interested, how could you not be interested in a guy like that? Who knows whether he's interested, good chance he isn't. But certainly worth calling and asking. Maybe he's after the Yankees job instead?
Colletti, I don't get that at all. He's been around a long time, and his Dodgers are only a couple of games better than the Cubs. I don't get how he'd be the guy. Not sure how much all the McCourt stuff may have limited him, though.
For a while Dodgers seemed to have a really productive draft-and-developement system going, but I think they've been on a very low-budget procurement situation for some time. Perhaps if he did come, and got the Ricketts procurement budget, and brought over some of the best scouts, so that Wilken ended up with the better half of the Dodger scouts and the better half of the Cub scouts, maybe you'd end up with a stellar scouting staff, I don't know.
But the Suntimes notion that you'd hire Colletti because he'd give you a 5-day PR boost by hiring Sandberg, that is absurd to the extreme. Sandberg's status as a player won't help much as soon as the team dips below .500 next season.