Everything you need to know about the Cubs new bench coach
Plus a prospect you shouldn't get too attached to and a discussion of how great Andre Dawson was and still is


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The Cubs filled the Andy Green sized hole in their coaching staff yesterday with the addition of former Cubs farmhand, and most recently San Diego Padres bench coach Ryan Flaherty. Flaherty was a 2008 draft choice1 of the Cubs who was “lost” in the Rule V draft to the Orioles in 2011.
Here’s everything you need to know about how important the bench coach is, especially when the manager he’s working for has had a greater career accomplishment than beating Mr. T and Chris Kattan on Dancing With The Stars.
It’s not very important.
Flaherty’s main job will be to suggest, “we could bunt here” a few times a game to Craig Counsell who will reply, “Fuck that. Got any gum?”
Flaherty’s Cubs connections run deeper than just playing in the minors with such future stars as Tony Campana and Blake Lalli.
He also played his college ball at Vanderbit where he was teammates with a certain mayonnaise enthusiast who is now purportedly the general manager of the team.
Here’s a photo of Flaherty and his teammates celebrating the announcement that Carter Hawkins would not be getting any at bats in the 2007 College World Series.
