YearofDaCubs

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He needs a day off.

Two words: Dusty Baker

You should but if that trade was offered and accepted in my league it would get vetoed.

Baker benches Murton to play Hairston in LF yet he won't bench Neifi at 2B to play Hairston there. It's criminal.

Let's wait and see how he pitches first. The loss of velocity is a concern. Slow. Gun. Multiple slow guns? I don't think so. How many times do you have to read that it was in the 40s and rainy? How can anyone possible think a pticher could have his best stuff on a night like that. He's also pitched twice. It sounds like you pretty much made up your mind that he hasn't lost velocity. Time will tell and I'm hoping he didn't but so far there is enough evidence to speculate a loss of velocity is possible.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/cubs/cst-spt-chris14.html Get used to it.... As soon as the Cubs have a decent good luck streak, of say, maybe 5 games....the Cubs will extend Baker for anoter 1 to 2 yrs. :evil. It is inevitable that Baker will be extended. :shock: :evil: :x I thought all this re-signing Dusty was just crazy talk from the frustrated fans, but to read it in the paper? I cannot believe that they would even think about re-signing him when the team looks this bad on a daily basis. And have since 2004. I just cannot believe it. It is beyond belief. It really is a slap in the face to all of the fans who deserve better.

Let's wait and see how he pitches first. The loss of velocity is a concern. Slow. Gun. Multiple slow guns? I don't think so. Wood hit 97 in Peoria and Nathan said he was consistently at 92-94. Maybe it is still early and he can regain all velocity but last year when Wood was pitching for us his fastball would consistently hit mid-high 90s.

Let's wait and see how he pitches first. The loss of velocity is a concern. Slow. Gun. Multiple slow guns? I don't think so.

Bad times. Baker, Wood, Mercker, Hawkins, and Alou all blowing up.

he should get a tons of credit for dealing off choi for lee. that was pretty controversial. Hendry isn't an absolute monkey. He has done some good with his trades back then. Unfortunately, he hasn't done squat recently. true. his last big strike was murton. i think gm's are more wary of him now & don't want their trade to be Lee or Aram for a pile of garbage part III. Funny how a similar wariness doesn't keep Beane from doing it. what big strike has he made recently?? frank thomas? DL Bradley? Antonio Perez? who'd he get for hudson & mulder again? Juan Cruz, Dan Meyer and Charles Thomas for Hudson Dan Haren, Kiko Calero (has been very good), and Daric Barton. (potential to be real good) Looks like Atlanta fleeced the A's but Cardinals did give up a good amount of talent. think he met his match in schuerholtz. haren's era is 5.00 this year. calero's at a respectable 4.15. perhaps he should have kept one of his arms and not put a bunch of money into kendall. and how about kotsay $7 million? payton $4 million? Loazia $6 million? beane's ability to draft really well will probably save the organization from his poor moves. Those are pretty bad contracts. Loaiza? That was a huge stretch there. You're right, Beane is far from perfect.

Look at their payroll and look at the talent they have on their team. Swisher, Crosby, Chavez, Bradley, Street, Calero, Harden, and Zito. That's pretty impressive. Beane knows what he's doing.

Let's wait and see how he pitches first. The loss of velocity is a concern.

No, he would be wondering what lure to use the next time he goes on a fishing trip. :lol:

That extension should never have been given in the first place. MacPhail, Hendry and Baker should all go, along with the entire staff save Speier, and the entire front office, scout system, and minor league development people. Silver lining: everything I have heard is that the Trib loves Andy. Maybe Hendry's extension will be proof positive that Andy has flaws and the entire organization needs to go in a different direction. I just don't think the corporate mentality will allow that. The team has made them a whole lot of money over Andy's tenure. They probably value that more that the struggles of the past 2 seasons. True, but the Hendry extension was a bad business decision. It was utterly premature, and I think particularly non-baseball suits can see that. they blame injuries. It's funny how they blame injuries but what do they expect when relying upon injury prone players to perform? It's a broken record.

he should get a tons of credit for dealing off choi for lee. that was pretty controversial. Hendry isn't an absolute monkey. He has done some good with his trades back then. Unfortunately, he hasn't done squat recently. true. his last big strike was murton. i think gm's are more wary of him now & don't want their trade to be Lee or Aram for a pile of garbage part III. Funny how a similar wariness doesn't keep Beane from doing it. what big strike has he made recently?? frank thomas? DL Bradley? Antonio Perez? who'd he get for hudson & mulder again? Juan Cruz, Dan Meyer and Charles Thomas for Hudson Dan Haren, Kiko Calero (has been very good), and Daric Barton. (potential to be real good) Looks like Atlanta fleeced the A's but Cardinals did give up a good amount of talent.

The haters have recently moved from the I hate Jock bandwagon to the I hate Hendry/Pierre/Baker bandwagon. I happen to be one of those haters.

he should get a tons of credit for dealing off choi for lee. that was pretty controversial. Hendry isn't an absolute monkey. He has done some good with his trades back then. Unfortunately, he hasn't done squat recently.

The Cubs would have to eat his contract right? Unfortunately, the Cubs are at the point where if they want to right this ship they're going to have to eat a few contracts. Agreed. There are several players on this roster that should not be on this team. Too bad Hendry will never make the extreme moves to right the ship. If he does, that just proves how 1/3rd of his roster is useless and shows how he failed the club by trading/signing these guys.

There's no question that Baker has to go as well. Dusty is part of the circus act too. He comes up with lineups by drawing names out of a magician's hat. That is the only thing that that can explain these pathetic lineups he puts together.

I feel bad for us moreso than I feel bad for him. He did have the whole issue of being an outsider on his team (Boston), then getting shipped away for a couple players that played key roles in his old team winning the World Series. The guy was the face of Boston baseball for a few years with Pedro Martinez. I feel bad for us because truth be told we didn't get squat out of Nomar. You can't blame him for getting injured and what not but that doesn't change the fact we didn't get squat out of him.

Pujols on his recent tear might overtake the entire Cubs roster in HR and RBI's.

That extension should never have been given in the first place. MacPhail, Hendry and Baker should all go, along with the entire staff save Speier, and the entire front office, scout system, and minor league development people. Silver lining: everything I have heard is that the Trib loves Andy. Maybe Hendry's extension will be proof positive that Andy has flaws and the entire organization needs to go in a different direction. I just don't think the corporate mentality will allow that. The team has made them a whole lot of money over Andy's tenure. They probably value that more that the struggles of the past 2 seasons. True, but the Hendry extension was a bad business decision. It was utterly premature, and I think particularly non-baseball suits can see that. How many times in 4 seasons has a bad business decision (in the form of a stupid contract) happened? I think things would have to get really, really bad (like KC Royals bad) for the Trib do move against Andy. At this rate it might just get KC bad. Our last 10 games: 1-9 KC: 5-5

Drew. Ordonez. Beltran. Those were 3 options. Regarding the Sosa thing, if the Trib hadn't completely tossed him udner the bus and trashed his trade value, we might not have been in the position to settle for Burnitz by Feb. If you want to deal someone, you don't purposefully tank his trade value. Hendry is an overrated GM. The Ramirez and Lee deals came about because 2 teams decided to shed salary. Lofton was Hendry's main target, and taking Ramirez's salary of Pittsburghs hands was the reason we gave up so little. Ditto for the Lee deal. The Nomar deal was a gamble that failed. The Pierre deal wasn't a good one, but I'm a little suprised it's as bad as it looks right now. However, his trades aren't the real problem.... ...His FA moves have been a problem. He's resigned Perez twice, Rusch twice, and the second time both got paid 2x as much as they should have gotten for 2x the years they should have gotten. Yet Hendry acted as if they were priceless commodoties that needed to be locked up. He overpaid Henry Blanco for no good reason. The fact that he brought back Jose Macias after 04 and gave him a raise in 05 is absurd on principle. He grossly overpaid both Howry and Eyre, to the point where the players themselves were shocked at the offer. Regardless of his perfomance this season, and the injuries to Prior and Wood, he overpaid Maddux in years and money. Those types of irrespnosible decisions tied up a large enough chunk of the payroll to the point where we couldn't get in on the bidding for an impact offensive player. And lets not forget him outbidding himself to sign Jones for more money and more years than he ever, ever should have gotten. Hendry consistently makes the same mistakes over and over. He has a plan, but the plan itself is flawed. He over and over goes for versatility and tools over production and value. He overpays his mediocre bench players, hamstringing both the budget and the offense, and insuring that the team cannot survive an injury to a key player. Both Baker and Hendry are at fault, for the composition of the roster and the wasting of the best core of players this team has had since the mid-60's. There is no reason beyond incompetence that a core of Lee, Ramirez, Barrett, Prior, Wood and Zambrano shouldn't have been surrounded with good enough talent to win over the past 3 years. Yet they have been. This team won in spite of their manager in 2003, imploded in 2004, was crippled from the start in both 2005 and 2006, when there were plenty of positions to fill and plenty of money within the budget with which to do it. Post of the year.

I feel bad for us moreso than I feel bad for him.