Does Sveum know he's reading from a bad script?  Dale Sveum
sounded so grounded, so non-plussed, so honest even before he
was introduced as the new Cubs manager.  And now this.  Reading
what Sveum was saying at the winter meetings makes you wonder if
he already has gotten Cubbed.  Or maybe someone developed a
portable version of the stupid gas that blows through the
manager’s office.  Sveum declared that success starts with
pitching. That’s the smart part. Then he said “if you have
(Carlos) Zambrano and (Matt) Garza and (Ryan) Dempster and fill
in with the other two guys, and have a bullpen like we do, you
have a chance of winning. You put up some runs on the board and
you get hot, you’re going to win with that kind of pitching
staff.’’  What exactly was Sveum watching from the other dugout
last season?  Because that’s pretty much what happened last
season. The Cubs had Zambrano, Garza and Dempster. They tried to
fill in with other guys. They suffered injuries the way teams
do, and they stunk.  They had nothi