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I wonder if Tim will be mad about everyone continually hitting F5 to reload

Fixed Doesn't change my point. :P Fred will keep u updated

I guess that makes the 3 runs from the homer unearned right?

there's our cycle!

17 oages and we aren't even past the 1dt inning :shock:

how about hitting for the cycle in the 1st inning!

YEAH! Go Pierre!

not a bad toss from the prez. From the rubber no less and made it over the plate.

Eyre is constantly stretching his left leg as he climbs back on the mound. Is he hurting or is just typical for him?

I don't think anyone on the field saw that ball. AR didn't and Howry looked like he was unsure as well. BTW, why noe visit yet by Larry?

NL West: Giants NL Central: Cubs NL East: Braves NL Wild Card: Cardinals AL West: Angels AL Central: Indians AL East: Red Sox AL Wild Card: Devil Rays (Gotta Make some silly predictions) NLCS: Cubs over Braves in 6 (With Woody clinching in ATL again) ALCS: Indians over Red Sox in 7 World Series: Ends in a tie after 14 innings in game 7, thus both team's curses continue.

If you can't tell the difference between a guy being fully capable of one job, and receiving just praise for that job, but then failing after a promotion, and getting just criticism for that failure, then you don't know much about life. Hendry wasn't the GM in the 90's. He did some nice things to help the team. But saying that would be the similar to saying Isiah Thomas is a great GM because he did a lot of things to help his basketball team when he played. Except Isiah's playing career has little effect on the team in comparisons to the effect of the GM promotig the players that he developed as the minor league director. My apologies for apparently not understandling life because I don't see how Hendry has failed as a GM. Once I again I ask for exactly how he failed as a GM. Under his watch the team accomplished something that it hasn't done in 30 years, 2 straight winning seasons. But apparently that isn't enough. Hypotheically speaking, should this team win this year will that be enough to help exonerate Hendry? What would? I see this regime as presiding over as close to a dynastay as the Cubs have had in recent memory. They have provided the most talented teams, the highest expectations and best reasons for hope. To say that they have failed is a huge undermining of the situation and looking at it without one positive at all. Despite their missteps, I can't ignore the righ thtings that they have done. Like I have stated, there isn't 1 move that has dramatically altered this team in a negative way. We can complain about the Perez's and Rusch's all we we want but in reality, a 23rd person and a swingman won't make or break a team.

I hope I am reading this post right, because it doesn't make much sense to the argument to me. A.) Hendry is the same person and his role, while different, is supposed to accomplish the same taks of devolping players for the Cubs that leads to a championship. There is a reason why becoming a GM from a minor league director is a promotion. The GM still has similar duties to his former post but now he has more responsibliity and (in Biz Terms) Strategic planning and less physcially hands on. To say that Hendry should act differently in each role is "absurd" because the role is an integral part of a GM. B.) Asking a fan how they would do the job differently is exaclty what we are doing on this board. Asking "what if" they were in the big chair is the same as crticizing what happened. Like the matra goes, Don't just bring me a problem, bring a solution too. 3.) (or C.) While the emphasis on the walk or the control of pitchers Hendry acquired is continually debatable, its not the sole reason for the stumbles the organization has taken the last couple of seasons. Much of the challenges can be assocaited with the depth of talent on the team as well as the lack of verified information from the training staff. I will not shy away from saying that when Dusty was hired I thought it was a good hire. I still believe that at the time he was the best candidate available and a proven winner which is what the Cubs needed. While the argument can be made that the manager needed to be more of a teacher, guider and strageist and not a "player's manager" I think that the team needed the guidance of a former player who has had sucess as both a manager and a player. Discount it all you want but players follow and respect their leaders more if they have gone through the same issues. Baker had and the thought was that he would provide guidance to the budding superstars on the team was a highlight of the reason he was hired.

I'm So Cal Cubs

I would not lay all of the blame on Hendry. Certainly, with Baker around and the injuries we have had, there's no way Hendry should get all the blame. Just his share. Hendry's moves did not invigorate this team or raise expectations. Anybody who was paying attention in the late 90s was expecting the Cubs to be contenders in the early to mid 2000s. Hendry, as GM, has not raised expectations above where they were, for this time period. He did a nice job working with the minor leagues, as GM, however, he's left a lot to be desired. I think that this comment would create some contention with some around here. What has Hendry done that has been so bad specifically? As for my comment about raised expectations, Hendry was the one in charge of developing these expectations in the late 90's. For those of us "paying attention" Hendry (and others) is credited for helping the Cubs' system rebound and provide some of players to project for those sucessful years in the early 00's. What could Hendry have done differently? If the thought process is that Hendry hasn't raised expectations during his tenure or has "left a lot to be desired" what should have been done differently?

Press Release says he & Guz were sent down

Walrond?

Soul- I appreciate the criticsm of the regime and I understand where it comes from. The challenge I bring is that I can't lay the blame upon Hendry. His moves have invigorated the team to the point that we have higher expectations and thus the "hole" that it has to dig it self out of. Hendry, in each offseason (and midseason), has perpetually gone out and acquired players that would help the Cubs in the short term AND the long term. There have been mixed reviews on deals that he could have made but in hindsight most (if not all ) of those decisions have turned out positively (i.e. closer in 2005 and not signing Percival or Benetiz). There are non deals from this offseason like Giles & Furcal that many were hoping to see but in each of those cases, Hendry had backup plans should they had failed. I would call the current regime a failure if they hadn't tried and had been abundantly foolish. There isn't 1 transaction that can't be looked at from both sides of an argument. Sure we can disagree with the Rusch & Perez & Macias signings, the loss of Sisco and so on and so forth. However, none of these "hot button" transactions have had a huge (and lasting) effect on the team. The major transactions (AR, Lee & Nomar) have had the lasting impact (and a positve one for the most part given Murton) that they were expected to have. Not to excuse the situation the last 2 years, but injuries have taken a huge role in each of those campagins. To say that the crrent regime has squandared the best pitching we have had is some what blunted. I can't fault Hendry for Wood and Prior and Nomar breaking down. No matter how you spin Baker's influence, the player has to take some responsibility too. The Cubs have been unfortuante the last 2 years but I am firmly in the camp that it is not the fault of the leadership.

WOW. This is just an amazing negative post. I understand that there is a certain truth to some of these statements, but I can't agree with the absolutes in that post. This is not the greatest pitching windfall in Cubs history, and he didn't "squander" anything. He did what a GM is supposed to and set up a team for sucess. Unfortunately, it didn't happen but saying that Hendry is a bungling GM is far from the truth.

yeah but we need the arrogant and annoying segment that you fit into quite well

i am confused again. I thought we couldn't have MLB players listed in the minors categories.

If Only I hadn't missed the draft...grrr...

I have a couple of good ones and would be willing to listen to offers for Dye or Guillen

My roster is illegal right now because I have minor players that aren't actually in the minors. What is the deadline for this?

So who is who? Tim, Can you edit the 1st post and include SN & Team names...