8/7 Cubs (Big Z) @ Rockies (Jimenez) 8:10 PM; CSN; WGN Radio

[CHCinIC]

what a waste of an inning

[Sammy Sofa]

And yet there are people who honestly think he's not a bottom-5 GM.

 

I like how you say that like it's crazy.

I like how you've never ever been wrong once. Ever.

Oh come on. Hendry is NOT a "bottom-5 GM"

 

No one is talking about a 'few good trades' absolving him from anything. He has built a team that won back to back division championships and going into this season - on paper - the cubs were still one of the best teams in baseball. Yes, he makes mistakes (Say, Aaron Miles) but bottom 5? Please.

He also was in a division the last two years where he spent a lot more money than anyone else.

 

That's no guarentee of success.

[E.J.]

And yet there are people who honestly think he's not a bottom-5 GM.

There are lots of bad GMs out there. Baseball GMs, when compared to the heads of other billion dollar operations, are laughably bad.

 

The old boys club has kept it that way.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Fontenot walked

Theriot singled to right field , Fontenot to second

Samardzija bunted into a FC, 1-5, Fontenot out at hitrd, Theriot to second

Fukudome grounded into a DP, 4-6-3, Samardzija out at second

 

0 runs 1 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 0 0                      1  3  1
Colorado        3 0 0 2                        5  8  0

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Colorado: Iannetta (13)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marshall      2.0  5  1  1  1  3  0  62
Samardzija    2.0  3  2  2  0  1  1  35

 

Colorado       IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Jimenez       5.0  3  0  0  3  2  0  67

[Ballgame64]

You have to be kidding me. Two on and no outs and two pitches later the inning is over. A very bad time to be aggressive Kosuke!

[illiniguy]

Yeah, and he won. So he did what he was supposed to do.

Most of the GMS could win if they got 110 million and thier opponents got 60 million.

[Fred Hornkohl]

St. Louis      6
Pittsburgh     4  F

Milwaukee      3
Houston        6  8

Cincinnati     0  2
San Francisco  2

[bcl412]

why do we even bother?

 

any of us...

 

There seems to be a lot of similarities between heroin and the Cubs.

[illiniguy]

 

That's no guarentee of success.

It's usually a pretty good indicator of it though. Barring a ton of injuries.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Helton popped out to right field

[Outshined_One]

And yet there are people who honestly think he's not a bottom-5 GM.

There are lots of bad GMs out there. Baseball GMs, when compared to the heads of other billion dollar operations, are laughably bad.

 

Actually, no, it's pretty much the same. It's shocking how many absolute morons are out there who manage to go from golden parachute to golden parachute.

[Roast]

And yet there are people who honestly think he's not a bottom-5 GM.

There are lots of bad GMs out there. Baseball GMs, when compared to the heads of other billion dollar operations, are laughably bad.

 

The old boys club has kept it that way.

Exactly. I really think people over-exaggerate how bad hendry is in comparison to other baseball GM's. Certainly hendry makes some mind-numbingly bad decisions but he is not a bottom-5 in this league.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, and he won. So he did what he was supposed to do.

Most of the GMS could win if they got 110 million and thier opponents got 60 million.

 

That's a false point since it makes like the 110 million team is only playing 60 million teams or worse.

[Outshined_One]

Great, now Jeff's taking out his frustrations on the backstop.

[bcl412]

Yeah, and he won. So he did what he was supposed to do.

Most of the GMS could win if they got 110 million and thier opponents got 60 million.

 

That essentially creates a scenario where Hendry (or any GM in a similar situation) can't win so criticism is kind of useless.

[illiniguy]

Yeah, and he won. So he did what he was supposed to do.

Most of the GMS could win if they got 110 million and thier opponents got 60 million.

 

That's a false point since it makes like the 110 million team is only playing 60 million teams or worse.

How many teams do we play every year that spend as much as us? 2 maybe 3?

[Careless]

Not "fastball into my own dugout" bad, but pretty damned bad

[E.J.]

Great, now Jeff's taking out his frustrations on the backstop.

 

Nope. He just has no idea where the ball is going.

[Sammy Sofa]

I really think people over-exaggerate how bad hendry is in comparison to other baseball GM's.

 

This.

 

Hendry is by no means my ideal choice for GM, but I'm not expecting whoever replaces him is likely going to be better. He'll just be different kinds of bad.

[Outshined_One]

Friggin midget...

[illiniguy]

Yeah, and he won. So he did what he was supposed to do.

Most of the GMS could win if they got 110 million and thier opponents got 60 million.

 

That essentially creates a scenario where Hendry (or any GM in a similar situation) can't win so criticism is kind of useless.

Fair enough.

[E.J.]

Nice catch T-Rex.

[Careless]

raise your hand if you believe Theriot is 5'11" as claimed

[E.J.]

Nice work Soto.

[erik316wttn]

And yet there are people who honestly think he's not a bottom-5 GM.

 

I like how you say that like it's crazy.

 

It is.

 

A few good trades does not absolve him from the other absolutely brutal moves he's made.

 

He's hit and miss, imo. I'm willing to give him a pass for the time being for the recent Pac Rim efforts and the 2008 draft.

 

He has had some hits. I don't like the guy, but I'll admit when he's done well. He did a good job getting Aram, Lee, and Harden in here. He's broadened our international scouting efforts, and we had a good draft. But he's handcuffed us with terrible contracts, has made some awful personnel decsions, is completely incapable of admitting when he's wrong, changes organizational philosophies more often than some people change their underwear, brought Dusty in here to wreck Prior and Wood, gave Dusty way too much power in personnel descions, let Dusty run the team for FAR too long when he should have been fired sometime in 2005 or early 2006, and I know I'm forgetting a few things.