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Yeah, I don't see why people think Damon gets this huge contract, when superior players got peanuts last offseason. I think most of these FAs are going to be very disappointed.

Flatulence

Hopefully Joe Morgan gets caught with his lips on some young, non-Mrs. Morgan sucklesacks real soon.

Holy Christ. Is she a post-op?

That has to feel like hitting the lottery. Imagine if Soriano had an overwhelming impulse to return home and opted out? They'd probably retire his number.

If Dusty was a horse he would've been shot long ago, but I can't blame him for Patterson. The guy can't hit at all. It's amazing he ever accomplished a 95 OPS+.

People keeping saying Hendry is a "bottom 5 Gm in baseball" and that is not even remotely true. IMO there ae three catergories of GMs: 1: the really good, 2: Meh, and 3: the really bad. Hendry is in the "meh" catergory. And people who says Hendry is in the "bottom 5th" of GMs really need to toned done the overexaggeration. You make a good point. Name me a NL central GM who is better than Hendry? Melvin squandered a golden opportunity to have the Brewers competitive for years. Huntington is trying to help the Pirates set an unbreakable record for the most consecutive years for a franchise to be under .500. Mozeliak traded many of the Cards top prospects this year and may get swept in the first round of the playoffs and be stuck with nothing to show for the trades. Jocketty appears to have no direction. NL West? Sabean? Doubt it. Colletti? Made the playoffs a couple of years in a row, but according to this board he is terrible. O'Dowd? possible NL East? Wren? taken the Braves down the toilet. Minaya? Once again listed as most people's worst GM's. Rizzo? don't think so... Beinfest and Amaro, Jr.? We may have a winner. Hendry is not nearly as bad as some think. Whoa, you totally miscontrued my post. I was just stating Hendry is not a bottom five, more of a bottom ten. I'd take Melvin or Mozeliak over Hendry in a heartbeat. Wren too. And it's a little early to write off Rizzo. He wasn't a Bowden hire. Either way, Hendry has to go. Well, it is good thing you don't have any say. Melvin took a Brewers team that had a chance to compete for years, and managed to ruin it. Mozeliak is looking pretty foolish right now. Trading your farm for one shot at the playoffs, only to get swept. And what has Wren done that would lead anyone to believe that he is better than Hendry? He took a Braves team that won the NL East 14 out of the last 15 years, and hasn't even sniffed the playoffs yet? You seem to have a very strange set of criteria for success of a GM. Hendry isn't the greatest GM, but when you start comparing him to other GM's he doesn't look so bad. Its amazing how much people spaz out after having one year of not making the playoffs. Spaz? The man make [expletive] up as he goes along. Every year it's some new miopic BS. That's spazzing.

I'd say the displeasure with Hendry's performance is completely rational. What's irrational is some folks acceptance of mediocre results and piss-poor management.

The right of combination eggs, cabbage, beans, and beer would do the trick.

he made some big mistakes early on, but i'd take Daniels over Hendry Young and Gonzalez for Otsuka and Adam Eaton (!) should've already gotten him fired. The Tex trade helped negate it, but then there's the moronic deals to Millwood and Young. His body of work leads me to really wonder if he has any kind of plan.

People keeping saying Hendry is a "bottom 5 Gm in baseball" and that is not even remotely true. IMO there ae three catergories of GMs: 1: the really good, 2: Meh, and 3: the really bad. Hendry is in the "meh" catergory. And people who says Hendry is in the "bottom 5th" of GMs really need to toned done the overexaggeration. You make a good point. Name me a NL central GM who is better than Hendry? Melvin squandered a golden opportunity to have the Brewers competitive for years. Huntington is trying to help the Pirates set an unbreakable record for the most consecutive years for a franchise to be under .500. Mozeliak traded many of the Cards top prospects this year and may get swept in the first round of the playoffs and be stuck with nothing to show for the trades. Jocketty appears to have no direction. NL West? Sabean? Doubt it. Colletti? Made the playoffs a couple of years in a row, but according to this board he is terrible. O'Dowd? possible NL East? Wren? taken the Braves down the toilet. Minaya? Once again listed as most people's worst GM's. Rizzo? don't think so... Beinfest and Amaro, Jr.? We may have a winner. Hendry is not nearly as bad as some think. Whoa, you totally miscontrued my post. I was just stating Hendry is not a bottom five, more of a bottom ten. I'd take Melvin or Mozeliak over Hendry in a heartbeat. Wren too. And it's a little early to write off Rizzo. He wasn't a Bowden hire. Either way, Hendry has to go.

B....b....but we might find someone worse!!! Every time I see your posts I think, "Well, he's really topped himself this time. He can't possibly get more useless from here." And you continually surprise me with your next post. There isn't a person on this board saying Hendry deserves to keep his job. Those of us who stress caution are simply more concerned with who our GM is rather than who it isn't. Hell, we aren't even saying don't fire him. We're saying get a line on somebody better first... But that's too logical, I suppose. Oh, how much better our team would be if we all made arbitrary decisions based on emotion like you seem to prefer. Glad I have fans. May I direct you to the "ignore" feature to block out "useless" posters such as myself? If you've been paying attention, there are several posters on here who advocate keeping Hendry because the next guy might be worse. I don't really think that's possible. Hendry is a bottom-5 GM in this league. While I do advise caution in hiring the next GM, keeping him employed simply because "the next guy might be worse" is terrible logic. Fire him now, promote someone to interim in the meantime, and work it out in the offseason. Minaya, Wade, Moore, Jocketty, Coletti, and Daniels are all worse. Arguably Sabean too. That doesn't excuse Hendry though.

Par for the course.

I'll amend that. Miles returning and putting up his '08 numbers would be bad even with a new GM.

Worst case scenario: Hendry is retained, Miles returns and puts up an '08-type season.

Worst case scenario: Hendry is retained, Miles returns and puts up an '08-type season.

I wouldn't start those projects yet. Any team with a coaching staff that OTT bad would be must watch entertainment.

Definitely need to lump Joe Buck into the nepotism lottery as well.

@Mojo Granted. But if a new GM was brought in he'd likely be too preoccupied to chase after junk like Figgins, which I fully expect Hendry to do.

Five or six is still too much.

We're already stuck. The possiblity of getting worse shouldn't even be a consideration.

Rights issues. That's why none of Cannell's projects have been made into films.

If this was a more reputable source I might be worried.

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. I can live with another offseason if he has absolutely no money to spend, and ownership mandates he can't trade for any contracts with more than two years remaining.

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.