Sammy Sofa

Many posters continually stated that "the cupboard was bare" and that Hendry depleted the organization of talent deeply and completely, so maybe you ought to get on them for hyperbole. My point in posting on this topic is all of the hyperbole about Hendry left nothing and Theo magically waved his magic wand and produced Rizzo, Russell, etc. This means absolutely nothing.

And the interesting thing is that I moved on from Hendry years ago, while many of you can't seem to stop bringing up his name. You're packed to the brim with dung from a boring, boring horse.

You keep throwing this out there like it's some kind of key rebuttal. It's not plus for the old GM when the new GM has to clean up their mess. If you read the post carefully, it's not a rebuttal about cleaning up the mess. It's a rebuttal to the notion that "cupboard was bare" mentality that was being passed around in these discussions. Well it wasn't literally empty, but there wasn't all that much either. He left the team in a pretty [expletive] spot, and saying that there was a non-zero number of assets left isn't the positive statement you seem to think it is. Hendry was pretty bad man. There was Baez, Castro, and enough to trade for Rizzo, Russell, Wood, Grimm, Ramirez, Hendricks, Villanueva, Torreyes, and Black. Theo deserves the credit for having a plan and trading players that didn't fit in his plan, but apparently those players were valuable enough to acquire the players listed above. It's staggering how you think this is some kind of plus for Hendry. Nobody takes over a team completely devoid of any value or assets, so stop [expletive] dwelling on the obvious hyperbole of a phrase like "the cupboard is bare." Nobody ever said Hendry was incapable of finding good or useful players, but selling off the remnants from his broken teams isn't some kind of positive legacy for him. That they had someone like Matt Garza to trade was the result of Hendry stupidly trading for him in the first place, not, "boy, that Jim Hendry sure was smart for landing Matt Garza!"

He straight up looks like a monster with that mask. Horrifying.

i love how he cites the ventura and matheny hirings as though those were analytics guys or something FJM should come back just for this alone.

Basically it always comes across as "don't forget about Hendry!" and all I want to say is, "well, I keep trying, but you're making it really hard to do so."

You keep throwing this out there like it's some kind of key rebuttal. It's not plus for the old GM when the new GM has to clean up their mess.

Before that he was known as the guy who would bring up crazy trade ideas that would routinely involve 3-5 teams to pull off.

Explain.

2003 was just some next level [expletive]. This season was a ton of fun, but because they never really got started in NLCS it still felt like they were just so far away from winning it all; as cool as it was beating the Pirates and Cardinals, it still just felt like it was at that "oh, that's nice!"-level. By the time everything went nuts in game 6 in 2003 it was like everything had shifted sideways into another dimension.

They're asking some people on my team to do some overnights in the next few months, and I just can't. I remember jumping at the opportunity to do overnights with the jobs I had in my 20's. And working until like 2-3 AM and then going out afterwards and not sleeping until the next night. Or the day after that. Or the night after that. Now I get tired just thinking about it. "Oh, I have to be up at 6 for work? OK, as long as I'm asleep by 4 I'll be fine." Now I'm just dead to the world regardless of when I went to sleep with something like that.

So what? The lengths of his previous contracts had nothing to do with how well he did as a pitcher. And before you jump to your usual position, no I'm not trying to defend it as somehow working out; it turned out to be a terrible signing. But at the time there was little indicate that the Cubs weren't likely to get relative value to the rather modest deal they signed him to. And off of that, what the hell accounts for the drastic difference in his season value between Fangraphs and BR for his 2013 and 2014 seasons? Fangraphs has him at a 2.0 WAR (and 0.5 in 2014) and BR has him at -1.3 (and -2.3 the next year). FG seems WAY off here. The point is that nobody was offering Jackson a contract that ran 4 years except the Cubs. We could have offered him 2 years at $13 million per year and he would have still signed with the Cubs. But they wanted to lock him up for longer based on his success to that point. Again, there was little reason to assume he was just going to topple off of a cliff and never recover, so why bother with only a 1 or 2-year deal? Everything to that point pointed it to being a reasonable deal. They were trying to help stabilize the starting rotation both that season and for the long term.

I'm temporarily working a couple overnight shifts a week until the end of the month; 9 PM-5:30 AM and I am just DEAD after doing it. I keep thinking back to just 10 years ago when it seemed like I would stay up like that all the damn time and I could just sleep it off no problem. I get home at little after 6 AM, feeling like death, pass out, and then I'm up again at noon with my body refusing to sleep no matter how tired I am. It's a real garbage situation.

So what? The lengths of his previous contracts had nothing to do with how well he did as a pitcher. And before you jump to your usual position, no I'm not trying to defend it as somehow working out; it turned out to be a terrible signing. But at the time there was little indicate that the Cubs weren't likely to get relative value to the rather modest deal they signed him to. And off of that, what the hell accounts for the drastic difference in his season value between Fangraphs and BR for his 2013 and 2014 seasons? Fangraphs has him at a 2.0 WAR (and 0.5 in 2014) and BR has him at -1.3 (and -2.3 the next year). FG seems WAY off here.

Christ. That really was Epstein-Hoyer's worst move to this point. Hasn't been a crippling move, but it's still hurting the team. I worked with a GF and now wife of one of the Nationals and nobody on their team could believe the Cubs spent that much money on him. Why?

Ugh, naps. The only thing that's make me feel worse than a short night of sleep is a nap. I feel like such a zombie afterwards.

To be fair, there is a Chicago precedent for this type of condition: [spoil]http://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/the-lipstick-killers-message/u/original/1227467/lipstickmessagemagnum.jpg[/spoil]

If I don't get a good night's sleep at this point I feel hungover. Aging is the worst.

Why would the season be a long grind instead of just another enjoyable season? My dad was at the game and I called him today and all he kept going on about was the "long haul of the regular season," like only this season could be fun and the rest will just be a slog until they win it all.

Next time stick around, but start hurling rotten fruit and eggs when the players come back out and howl "I CARE TOO MUCH" and tear your shirt off Hulkamania-style as Roast hauls you away.

Oh, those kooky Cubs! Always deciding to not even try when they should be trying really hard! When will they ever learn?

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Some jerkoff actually liked that sadsack screed. That person is somehow even worse.

Good [expletive] LORD. You left out your concluding statement: [spoil]http://i.giphy.com/QfJTWQnk59thC.gif[/spoil]