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erik316wttn

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Obviously we won't know for sure for awhile, but I've been saying all along that it wouldn't surprise me if Ricketts hired someone like Gillick to be president while retaining Hendry as GM. Basically having Hendry go through Gillick on all baseball decisions. With Quade gone after this year, Gillick can hand pick a long-time manager and pick his own GM for 2013 while making the important personnel decisions on the roster immediately.

 

This is exactly what I see happening. I think Hendry can pull off signing one of the 1B, and that's a very obvious must do for the Cubs. Its a move that's much easer to make with a FO not in complete flux.

 

I'm getting more and more convinced that Carlos Pena will be our Opening Day 1B next year.

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Obviously we won't know for sure for awhile, but I've been saying all along that it wouldn't surprise me if Ricketts hired someone like Gillick to be president while retaining Hendry as GM. Basically having Hendry go through Gillick on all baseball decisions. With Quade gone after this year, Gillick can hand pick a long-time manager and pick his own GM for 2013 while making the important personnel decisions on the roster immediately.

 

This is exactly what I see happening. I think Hendry can pull off signing one of the 1B, and that's a very obvious must do for the Cubs. Its a move that's much easer to make with a FO not in complete flux.

 

I'm getting more and more convinced that Carlos Pena will be our Opening Day 1B next year.

 

Generally a bad year will create the mentality that nothing good is to come.

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Gillick coming on board or not (and I don't think he will) doesn't mean its ok that Hendry keeps a job, no matter how nominal it is.

 

I know its been said, and its just as tired now as it was then, but I am very close to being done with this franchise. Especially if the Ricketts family remains as ownership for a long period of time. In a very short amount of time they've lost my vote of confidence.

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Gillick coming on board or not (and I don't think he will) doesn't mean its ok that Hendry keeps a job, no matter how nominal it is.

 

I know its been said, and its just as tired now as it was then, but I am very close to being done with this franchise. Especially if the Ricketts family remains as ownership for a long period of time. In a very short amount of time they've lost my vote of confidence.

 

Keeping Hendry on would be a really bad move, but to this point the Ricketts have also poured quite a bit of money into the farm system and made available the money for Wilken to put together a potentially terrific draft. That's got to count for something.

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Gillick coming on board or not (and I don't think he will) doesn't mean its ok that Hendry keeps a job, no matter how nominal it is.

 

I know its been said, and its just as tired now as it was then, but I am very close to being done with this franchise. Especially if the Ricketts family remains as ownership for a long period of time. In a very short amount of time they've lost my vote of confidence.

 

See their thinking is..."they'll be back." You want the franchise to win. They want the franchise to win. You can leave until the franchise starts winning. They, OTOH, have to take on the task of making the franchise a winner.

 

I do damn the Ricketts family pretty heavily for the 2+ years of losing they've brought upon the Cubs.

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I do damn the Ricketts family pretty heavily for the 2+ years of losing they've brought upon the Cubs.

 

This is sarcasm, right?

 

Only the best. I'm not that reactionary.

 

I hope that family owns the team for 50+ very fruitful years.

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Another national writer calls Hendry "at risk".

 

Jon Heyman[/url]"]Longtime Cubs general manager Jim Hendry is said by many people connected to the Cubs to have a good rapport and the respect of relatively new owner Tom Ricketts. And several reports, including one here, suggested Hendry is probably safe because of that.

But, apparently, that is far from a certainty. While Ricketts has spoken positively about Hendry to some other owners, Hendry, in his ninth year at the helm, is said by people familiar with the situation to be "at risk'' of losing his job.

There is no evidence that something has changed or that the Zambrano case is the key to Hendry's tenuous situation. It just may be a simple matter of others misreading nice comments regarding Hendry as proof that he would stay. That doesn't necessarily appear to be the case now.

 

Ricketts is said to be a cautious man, and someone who likes the personable Hendry very much. Some close to him have thought Hendry would stay. But that doesn't appear to be assured now.
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Another national writer calls Hendry "at risk".

 

Jon Heyman[/url]"]Longtime Cubs general manager Jim Hendry is said by many people connected to the Cubs to have a good rapport and the respect of relatively new owner Tom Ricketts. And several reports, including one here, suggested Hendry is probably safe because of that.

But, apparently, that is far from a certainty. While Ricketts has spoken positively about Hendry to some other owners, Hendry, in his ninth year at the helm, is said by people familiar with the situation to be "at risk'' of losing his job.

There is no evidence that something has changed or that the Zambrano case is the key to Hendry's tenuous situation. It just may be a simple matter of others misreading nice comments regarding Hendry as proof that he would stay. That doesn't necessarily appear to be the case now.

 

Ricketts is said to be a cautious man, and someone who likes the personable Hendry very much. Some close to him have thought Hendry would stay. But that doesn't appear to be assured now.

 

Well, that's encouraging. I guess we just won't know until we know.

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Bruce thinks Hendry will return:

 

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110818/sports/708189824/

 

He's been wrong before. Pray it happens again.

 

Personally, alot worse than not firing Hendry can happen this offseason. Missing on signing a big ticket FA (or two or three) would be insanely worse for this franchise both in the long and short term.

 

Keeping Hendry has been the worst thing to happen to this organization for several years now.

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Levine with breaking news that Hendry has been fired. Bruce has a tweet that he's checking into it.
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No blog entry up, but ESPN Chicago has a Breaking News banner saying "Source: Jim Hendry out as Cubs GM"

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