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  1. jersey cubs fan
    We could be worse is nonsense? Give me a [expletive] break. I guess I'm just more concerned with who IS our GM rather than who ISNT. If Ricketts loves Bill Bavasi or Jim Bowden or Steve Freaking Stone, I couldn't give a [expletive] whether or not Hendry deserves to keep his job (he doesn't). I want the Cubs to be in the best possible situation next year... and there's a very large amount of GM candidates on the market who would be actively taking this team a step backwards. And I think that's a pretty pathetic way of looking at things. They could be a heck of a lot better, and I'd like to see them do so. Hendry epitomizes mediocrity and I don't see why we should stick with that out of fear of failure.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    He and Zambrano were both better than people give them credit for. And they both took an inordinate amount of blame for the struggles of the season.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Going from 64 to 2 would require a lot of other picks added to the draft.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=326656 If they sign Grabow to a 3-year deal and let Harden walk without offering arbitration, I won't do anything, but I'll be really annoyed.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I don't care about PCL success. I care about the Cubs producing bats through their system. They haven't done that. One guy in several years with even a chance of being good (but who sucked this year) is meaningless. Nothing about his resume screams must keep. He's just another guy. Scapegoating the hitting coaches is weak, but just because he's respected doesn't mean he is a guy you have to have as your major league hitting coach. And if he takes that AAA job, he's right back where he theoretically has the most value to the organization anyway, so again, no big deal.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Yes and no. Given the new owners I can see the appeal of getting someone new in and signaling a "new era," but that typically requires paying big for such "newness." If the money is there, great, get the new guy in. If not, eh, limit Hendry basically to trades only and I can live with it for another year. Either way, I'm not losing sleep. If they want to still fire Hendry and there's not the money to make a big splash I'm not going to be worked up over it. I guess technically I could live with it for another year, but there's no good reason why we should have to. He's been in charge for a very long time and the team is barely over .500 with a huge financial advantage over the competition. I'm not all that upset that Joshua has been canned, but it's a weak move by Jim who typically finds something else to blame for a lack of success. He goes year to year on bizarre tangents, and he's the one who put them in this tight spot with so much money tied into just a few guys for several years. So if they somehow make it so his moves can't cripple the team going further, fine. But much like "Dusty-proofing" a roster, I don't see the point in hanging onto a guy you have to prevent from screwing up the team when he does what he wants to do.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    One guy who had one good year and then declined significantly. Not much of a case so far. So you believe '09 is Soto's true talent level. And that his '07 sucked. I think his true talent is probably somewhere between his 08 and 09, and his 60 PA in 07 don't really merit mentioning.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    One guy who had one good year and then declined significantly. Not much of a case so far.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    No, it doesn't. I'm not opposed at all to firing Hendry; I just recognize the odds that his replacement will be better aren't very good. That doesn't mean I want Hendry to stick around...I'm just not getting worked up over his replacement until they prove they're not part of the usual parade of crap that is the average MLB GM. When was the last time an owner telegraphed a GM replacement before first firing the existing one? The Jocketty situation is the only one I can remember. I don't understand what this has to do with anything. I'm not stating that the replacement has to be picked out or "telegraphed" or interviewed or whatever before Hendry is fired. I don't care if, how, where or when Hendry is fired. The closest I've come to "defending" him is saying that I wouldn't be opposed to keeping him for another season only if there is no significant payroll to work with and even then I'm not against him being fired. There's plenty of payroll to work with, the problem is Hendry has pissed much of it away. Considering Hendry has only really improved this team when they were massively increasing payroll (and after he turned the team from decent to crap), I would think that a lack of significant payroll boosts this offseason would be more incentive to get somebody else in there.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe he was, and maybe he's just another guy who is a hitting coach that everybody likes, but as Derrek Lee said, those guys are overrated. It's the talent that matters. And he hasn't exactly turned the guys he's worked with in the system into highly productive players.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I think people are a lot more miffed at the 2 that pushed Vitters down to 3 rather than his ranking alone. It's an arbitrary ranking of prospects in Low A ball. He had one good month there. I don't get the uproar.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    When the current GM has already fired two of the most respected batting coaches in the business within just a few months of each other, who can you realistically expect Hendry to hire next? You are dreaming if you think Jaramillo would come here so that he can be the next person Hendry blames for his own shortcomings. Since when did Von Joshua become one of the most respected hitting coaches in the game? People weren't exactly lining up to hire him while he spent the last several years in the Cubs minor league system. This whole Von Joshua uproar is getting out of control. Von Joshua has been very highly regarded for quite a while now. People keep saying that, but he's been a minor league coach for several seasons and he's in his 60's. How highly regarded could he possibly be? Everybody who stays around long enough in baseball is a good baseball guy, but if Von Joshua was only able to get a job as the Cubs AAA hitting coach, he can't be that much in demand.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Hendry has had the team in the playoffs 2 of the last 3 years, with teams that could have won the WS. I think it is a refreshing change, when everyone is sitting around lamenting about not making it into the playoffs like we are expecting it every year. And if you don't think the Cubs could do worse than Hendry at GM, just read any article that is pining for the new ownership to hire Steve Stone. The club's history isn't relevant. Fans should expect this team to be in the playoffs every year. And Hendry hasn't been GM for just 3 years, he's been there since 2002 and has been a major decision maker long before that. He's had his time and he's allowed this team to be a disappointment far too often. A couple division crowns in a weak division is nothing to hang your hat on. The Hendry era Cubs have barely outpaced the Florida Marlins during the same timeframe, and with many more resources at his disposal.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I bet it doesn't. You'll keep it bumped now just to prove me wrong. :mrgreen: I might. But even without that help the Bears are the only thing that matters now for most people who would be posting on this board the next couple weeks. The Blackhawks game might dip to page 2 before their next game, but not the Bears.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I bet it doesn't.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I bet he doesn't winter in Detroit.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That seems like a waste of Bradley and a good way to ensure he loses his mind. He's no guarantee to get more than 300 PA anyway and he's already lost his mind. Between Soriano's health and the questionable situation that will be in CF, he'd wind up playing much more than just the games in RF against LHP.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Are people really miffed that Vitters was ranked 3 instead of 1? And I thought All Star game voting debates were meaningless.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    They should just platoon Kosuke and Bradley in RF next year. Kosuke's bounceback year was barely better than Bradley's disappointing season, and they have a L/R platoon split that fits.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I would be insanely overjoyed if Detroit got so fed up with him that they traded him for Milton Bradley. If that's how Hendry gets out of this mess, all will be forgiven.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    In other words, I don't want to make an excuse, but here's an excuse for you, and it's not even valid since the payroll went up during the sale process. The only thing the sale did was slow the rate at which Hendry could increase his throwing of good money after bad. He's the one who tied up all that cash longterm. Don't go whining about the sale and things being more difficult this year. You had a crap ton of financial resources and you blew it. Coletti, Bavasi, and Minaya. No one could possibly want any of those clowns running the team, yet some defend Hendry, who doles out bad contracts just as freely. I haven't seen a single person here defend Hendry in months. On occasion myself or others may point out that firing him may actually make the situation worse if we don't followup correctly, but that's hardly a defense of him. No one has directly, but all this "we could do worse" business certainly implies it. A team with this many resources shouldn't have to settle for worse. The we could be worse nonsense and the "everybody will rip the next GM if he doesn't win a WS" as if Hendry has had the Cubs on the cusp of a title every year and came up just short. Seriously, this is almost as bad as the, "don't fire Dusty we had back to back .500 seasons for the first time in 30 years" BS.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    This from a Bruce Miles article (here) I'm sure he's saying that he doesn't want to talk publicly about what went wrong, but judging from his past behavior I don't think he will reflect at all. Instead, he'll go about trying to plug holes without regard to shaping an organizational philosophy. Damn, it pisses me off to no end. This is the part that pisses me off. In other words, I don't want to make an excuse, but here's an excuse for you, and it's not even valid since the payroll went up during the sale process. The only thing the sale did was slow the rate at which Hendry could increase his throwing of good money after bad. He's the one who tied up all that cash longterm. Don't go whining about the sale and things being more difficult this year. You had a crap ton of financial resources and you blew it.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    He's a 60-something year old coach who has had his chances in the majors and has a job waiting for him in AAA if he wants. He's hardly being kept from having a chance in the game.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I picked somebody else, but have no idea who that person will be.
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