JH on XM

[mhuber92211]

A.) Hendry is the same person and his role, while different, is supposed to accomplish the same taks of devolping players for the Cubs that leads to a championship. There is a reason why becoming a GM from a minor league director is a promotion. The GM still has similar duties to his former post but now he has more responsibliity and (in Biz Terms) Strategic planning and less physcially hands on. To say that Hendry should act differently in each role is "absurd" because the role is an integral part of a GM.

 

If you can't tell the difference between a guy being fully capable of one job, and receiving just praise for that job, but then failing after a promotion, and getting just criticism for that failure, then you don't know much about life. Hendry wasn't the GM in the 90's. He did some nice things to help the team. But saying that would be the similar to saying Isiah Thomas is a great GM because he did a lot of things to help his basketball team when he played.

 

Except Isiah's playing career has little effect on the team in comparisons to the effect of the GM promotig the players that he developed as the minor league director.

 

My apologies for apparently not understandling life because I don't see how Hendry has failed as a GM. Once I again I ask for exactly how he failed as a GM. Under his watch the team accomplished something that it hasn't done in 30 years, 2 straight winning seasons. But apparently that isn't enough. Hypotheically speaking, should this team win this year will that be enough to help exonerate Hendry? What would?

 

I see this regime as presiding over as close to a dynastay as the Cubs have had in recent memory. They have provided the most talented teams, the highest expectations and best reasons for hope. To say that they have failed is a huge undermining of the situation and looking at it without one positive at all. Despite their missteps, I can't ignore the righ thtings that they have done. Like I have stated, there isn't 1 move that has dramatically altered this team in a negative way. We can complain about the Perez's and Rusch's all we we want but in reality, a 23rd person and a swingman won't make or break a team.