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CHICAGO - After all the wins, all the losses and all those arguments, Lou Piniella clearly felt it was time to leave. Ryne Sandberg Jersey . Saying the final goodbye after a half-century in baseball, that was the hard part. "I cried a little bit after the game. You get emotional. Im sorry, Im not trying to be," the Chicago Cubs manager said Sunday, his eyes tearing up again and his voice cracking. "This will be the last time I put on my uniform," he said. The 66-year-old Piniella announced before the Cubs-Atlanta game that he was retiring immediately after it was over and planning to spend more time with his ailing mother. "My mom needs me home and thats where Im going," Piniella said. The Cubs didnt do him many favours on the field in his wrapup, losing 16-5 to the Braves. He was in the dugout when it ended, and he waved his hat across the field to his friend, longtime Atlanta manager Bobby Cox, who has said this is his last season. The Cubs gave up 11 runs over the final three innings to fall 23 games under .500. Many in the crowd of 37,518 had already left Wrigley Field when Sam&nbsp;Fuld grounded into a game-ending double play. "Its a <a href="www.nflyouthjersey.com"><strong>NFL youth jersey, youth NFL jersey</strong></a> good day to remember and also its a good day to forget," Piniella said. Third base coach Mike Quade was promoted to interim manager, getting the nod over bench coach Alan Trammell, who was thought to have been a candidate to succeed Piniella next season. But general manager Jim Hendry said Trammell was not going to be considered for the job, so Quade was selected to finish out the season. Speculation is rampant that former Cubs star Ryne Sandberg, now their triple-A manager, will be hired. From the start, it was an emotional day for a man known for his fiery ways as a player, manager and executive for 48 years. Piniella teared up at home plate when the umpires wished him well with his mom. He shook hands with Cox after they reached the plate, hugged each other and exchanged back slaps as Piniellas No. 41 was posted on the centre-field scoreboard. Cox was announced to the crowd and took his cap off and waved it to the fans. Then the public address announcer ran down Piniellas achievements as he stood at the plate, and scattered cheers of "Louuu" could be heard throughout the crowd. After Piniella and Cox posed for a picture with the umpires, the managers hugged each other again. Piniella then headed to the dugout and, as the cheers got louder, took off his cap, waved it to the crowd and began to clap for the fans. When Piniella made the first of three trips to the mound in the seventh inning to change pitchers, fans behind the dugout gave him a standing ovation as he came off the field and he acknowledged them with a little wave of his hand. Piniella said last month he planned to retire at the end of the season and reiterated his plans just Saturday. But he missed four games in August to be with his mom in Florida and decided this weekend his divided attention wasnt helping anyone. "She hasnt gotten any better since Ive been here," said Piniella, who turns 67 on Saturday. "Shes had a couple other complications, and rather than continue to go home, come back, its not fair to the team, its not fair to the players. So the best thing is just to step down and go home and take care of my mother." The surprising announcement was made in a team handout Sunday morning after Piniella had repeatedly insisted he would finish the season. Cox empathized with his counterpart. "Its in your blood that long, but Lous mom is in ill health," Cox said before the game. "Its a sad day for me because I kept on thinking that Lou would be back, not here but somewhere else." Piniella met with his team to let them know he was leaving and it was very emotional, despite the Cubs terribly disappointing season -- two years after they had the best record in the NL. "I wish we wouldve played better for him," reliever Sean&nbsp;Marshall said. "You hate to see stuff like that. You hate to see a grown man kind of tear up like that, it just shows his heart for winning and his drive for baseball and his family." Piniella finished with an overall record was 1,835-1,713. He trailed only Tony La Russa, Cox and Joe Torre in victories among active managers. Piniellas record with the Cubs was 316-293. Under the mellowed skipper, Chicago won consecutive NL Central titles in 2007-08, but missed the playoffs last year and slipped back even further this season with a new owner, Tom Ricketts, in charge. "Ive enjoyed it here," Piniella said. "In four wonderful years Ive made a lot of friends and had some success here, this year has been a little bit of a struggle. But, look. Family is important, it comes first." In 18 years in the majors as a player -- he had a .291 career batting average -- and another 23 as a manager, Piniella made five trips to the World Series and has three championship rings. He began his professional playing career in 1962. "Its a very tough day for him, very emotional," Hendry said of the man he hired four years ago to replace Dusty Baker. "There has been some times the last couple of months where he knew his family was possibly going to need him. He certainly didnt want to go out before the end of the year, but its just at the point now where he need to be home with his mother and his family." Piniella began managing in 1986 with the Yankees and lasted three years, including a stint as general manager. He managed the Reds from 1990-92, leading them to a World Series championship in his first season. He also got national attention during his time there for a clubhouse wrestling match with reliever Rob Dibble, who downplayed the incident and said "Weve been family ever since." After Cincinnati, Piniella had a long run in Seattle, where his teams won at least 90 games four times and 116 in 2001. The three-time manager of the year also spent three seasons in Tampa Bays dugout, but he questioned his hometown teams commitment to winning at the time before the team bought out the final year of his four-year contract. The Cubs won 97 games under Piniella in 2008, but were swept out of the playoffs for the second straight year and its been mostly downhill since that successful run. What Chicago fans saw for the most part was a more reserved Piniella, although he did have one dirt-kicking meltdown with umpire Mark Wegner early in his first season and soon thereafter the Cubs took off and eventually overtook the Milwaukee Brewers to win the NL Central in 2007. Piniella joined the Cubs after doing some TV work, looking for a final challenge and hoping -- like so many before him -- that he would be the manager to bring the Cubs a long-awaited championship. The Cubs last World Series appearance came in 1945, their last World Series winner in 1908. It didnt happen, despite the promising first two seasons. "Its a tough job. But, look. I mean. Theyre going to win here. Theyve got a family-owned business now," Piniella said. Piniella said he would look back later. He added that he no future plans, other than to tend to his family and relax. "Ill have plenty of time to reflect, I will," he said. Revis Jerseys . Wilson Chandler netted 21 points and Raymond Felton contributed 18 points and eight assists for the Knicks, who have won seven straight on the road for the first time since December 27, 1994 - January 22, 1995. Maurice Jones-Drew Jersey . 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Jamie Lundmark also scored for Calgary, and Curtis McElhinney made 21 saves. The Flames havent won at Honda Center since Jan. 19, 2004. They have only one win in their last 21 games in Orange County since Jan. 13, 1999. The Flames, who were beaten 1-0 on Friday night by Nashville for their first shutout loss of the season, scored more than three goals for only the second time in their last 23 games. They had no more than two in 16 of those contests, but won four of them. The Flames had scored only six goals over their previous four games despite outshooting their opponents 146-90. Perry tied it with 12:50 left, flipping his 19th goal over the fallen McElhinney from the edge of the crease after a shot from just inside the blue line by Sheldon Brookbank was blocked. Ryans team-high 21st goal and third game-winner came on a 25-foot wrist shot from the right circle that beat McElhinney high to the glove side. The Ducks and Flames - who were among the NHLs five most-penalized teams this season coming into the game - combined for 46 penalty minutes during a rugged and intense first period in which Anaheim outscored Calgary 3-2. But less than four minutes into the second period, Conroy sent Giordano in alone on Hiller for his seventh goal after a turnover by the Ducks in the Calgary zone. Glencross scored his 111th of the season on a backhander at 9:19 of the period after blocking a wrist shot by defenceman James Wisniewski just inside the Flames blue line. Giants Jersey. Both goals beat Hiller to the stick side. Jokinen opened the scoring at 7:05 of the first with his 10th goal while the team were skating 4-on-4. ######ton tied it about 1Â? minutes later with his eighth goal in just 22 NHL games, beating McElhinney to the glove side from short range with nine seconds left on a 4-on-3 power play and 54 seconds remaining on Giordanos tripping penalty. Artyukhin put Anaheim ahead at 16:59, beating McElhinney from the left circle after defenceman Cory Sarich let Artyukhin get around him in the left circle and then broke his stick trying to prevent him from getting a shot off. The Ducks made it 3-1 when Kyle Chipchuras centring pass from the right boards caromed in off Bodies right leg and into the net as Bodie was being checked by Robyn Regehr at the edge of the crease. But the rookie had to wait through the video replay process before the officials determined that it wasnt illegally kicked in. NOTES: The two backup goalies, all-stars Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Miikka Kiprusoff, have recorded a combined total of 441 victories and 65 shutouts in the regular season. ... All seven of McElhinneys starts this season have been against Western Conference teams that currently are on the outside looking in, regarding the playoff picture. ... Hiller was credited with an assist Artyukhins goal. His only other NHL assist was on a goal by Todd Marchant against Vancouver on March 12, 2008. ... Flames captain Jarome Iginla has played eight consecutive games without a goal, equalling his longest drought since a 10-game stretch from Jan. 8-Feb. 4, 2008. He has just five in 27 games since Nov. 23 at Anaheim. Iginla has led the league in goals twice, scoring a career-high 52 in 2001-02. ... The Flames are 1 for 25 on the power play over their last eight games. They were 0 for 3 against the Ducks. ' ' '