Piniella: I Ain't Goin' Nowhere

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Have no fear, Cubs fan. Even though your team is having an awful August (7-12, losers of four of their last five), your manager isn't going anywhere. With the recent team slump and the finalizing of the sale of the team to the Ricketts family, we suppose there were bound to be whispers Lou would set sail after '09. Not so, Piniella tells the Sun-Times: ''I'm planning to come back next year." Of course, a lot can happen between now and the first week of April 2010 but we'll go ahead and take Lou at his word. And, while we're at it, buy him a boat-load of Pepto-Bismol to deal with that bullpen.