The Cubs need a fresh start. No offense to Quade, but this means him too. When a group of guys have played as poorly as the Cubs have this year, EVERYONE has to be held accountable, especially the manager. Unload as much dead weight as possible, start with a new mentality.
Hendry gone from the Cubs?
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Enginerd
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Quade has to go. He has no respect from veterans like Dempster and has mismanaged the young players.
Prime example: Playing Reed Johnson and Blake Dewitt over Tyler Colvin. Neither player will be part of a Cub team that wins, Colvin might. Heck, two weeks ago he was saying that he'd sit Colvin against lefties in order to get Johnson some at bats.
He also chews Barney and Castro from misplaying a ball in the sun and yet says nothing as Soriano dogs it every day.
I'd like to see Brenley as the next manager.. If the Cubs go young with a total rebuild Sandberg would be a good fit too because he wouldn't have to win right away.
Does anyone think that Steve Stone would be a good GM?
Prime example: Playing Reed Johnson and Blake Dewitt over Tyler Colvin. Neither player will be part of a Cub team that wins, Colvin might. Heck, two weeks ago he was saying that he'd sit Colvin against lefties in order to get Johnson some at bats.
He also chews Barney and Castro from misplaying a ball in the sun and yet says nothing as Soriano dogs it every day.
I'd like to see Brenley as the next manager.. If the Cubs go young with a total rebuild Sandberg would be a good fit too because he wouldn't have to win right away.
Does anyone think that Steve Stone would be a good GM?
GravyJones
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A big hell no to all of this.
I was at Creighton when Hendry was there & did a nice job for CU. I thought Hendry did a great job when he first got here...Got rid of Todd Hundley for Karros & Gruzelonski (sp?) Fleeced Pirates out of Rameriz, for Bobby Hill, etc....
One move I would have loved was to trade Sosa in 2000-2002 when he still had value & get top prospects in return. He held on to Sammy too long & got a bag of balls & one ball marker in return.
I still think Prior got dinged up running the bases between 1st & 2nd vs Yankees & he was up-ended by Yankee 2nd basemen. Dusty put him back in the game when that happened in 5th inning or so...
I blame Hewndry for getting Milton Bradley when NO ONE ELSE was going to give him more than one year deal, he give him 3....That was a terrible deal. Fukodome is not good either. Soriano was not good for that length of contract.
Sam Zell is more of my problem, he ordered Hendry to spend $$$ so he could sell the team when he flipped the Cubs after getting them from Tribune Co. So some of Hendry's deals are reflected on Sam Zell IMO.
I just hope new GM spends wisley this off-season as some of the bad $$$ comes off the books. One can only hope
hawkfarmer
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Apparently the firing happened July 22nd. But he stayed to help the cubs through the trade deadline (probably why not much happened) and sign draftees. That's very professional of him, can't say I would have the same response. But glad he did as the draftees the cubs have are promising by multiple accounts.
It would be the best day ever if it weren't for that damn cyhawk trophy!
woodyk1
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I agree that Hendry was very professional throughout this process. It was good to get the draftees signed.
This is a good blog about some of the things that went wrong.
It was time for Jim Hendry to go - SweetSpot Blog - ESPN
hawkfarmer
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Randy Bush will not be permanent. Cubs want completely fresh start
Cubs interim GM Randy Bush says he'll work hard though he isn't candidate for the position | cubs.com: News
Cubs interim GM Randy Bush says he'll work hard though he isn't candidate for the position | cubs.com: News
silvanthalas
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He shouldn't have been around long enough to even be able get within a mile of this draft.
Typical stupid Cubs.
hawkfarmer
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He shouldn't have been around long enough to even be able get within a mile of this draft.
Typical stupid Cubs.
True, but reports are the cubs actually had a good draft with some young players with potential and not a lot of college kids that tapped all of their potential already.
cubbyhawk2
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Noooooooooooooooooooo.............why is there a love affair with Stone. Doesn't anyone think there's a reason he's never been a GM, to my knowledge never been offered a GM job? A smug TV commentator does not make a major league GM.
HawkeyeMike23
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It's obvious, Quade should have been able to turn Randy Wells, Doug Davis, Casey Coleman, Rodrigo Lopez and Thomas Diamond into quality MLB pitchers. If Sandberg were manager of the Cubs, he could turn anyone of those guys into a 20 game winner.
hawkfarmer
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Man I forgot about all the future cy yound award winners that Quade ruined. My bad. FIRE HIM NOW!!!
silvanthalas
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One good draft doesn't make up for several poor ones, the Cubs overall awful farm system, or the terrible contracts he handed out in recent years.
Hendry is now gone, but his impact will unfortunately be felt for several years to come.
hawkfarmer
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I didn't say it did. I just said it was good that he stuck around to get all of those guys signed even though he was fired several weeks ago. I don't think the cubs have drafted well in the last 4 or 5 years, but this one by all account is better. I agree Hendry needed to go, but glad he signed this last group.
ssckelley
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I am also hearing a number of good things about this draft. But the thing is do we have the right manager in place that can develop this talent into big league players? ESPN had a number of shots of Castro yesterday where he was not paying attention while at shortstop. He was more interested in his sunflower seeds than he was getting into position. Valentine was ripping on Quade for not correcting these issues. Castro leads the league in errors, he has no business even having seeds in his back pocket.
hawkfarmer
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Not sure as far as development goes as Quade has nothing to do with the players until the are at AAA (as far as spring training goes) or the majors. So up until that point he doesn't get much interaction. I don't know about the Castro stuff, like when it happened, but if there is nobody on and you're waiting, what do you want the kid to do. Like I said maybe this was during a big play or something which would be bad.
Also, side note on Castro, is that his errors have been decreasing as the year has gone on.
silvanthalas
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Things like Castro not paying attention are not things that should have to be corrected at the major league level. They should have been corrected in the minors.
The Cubs are a mess from top to bottom.
The Cubs are a mess from top to bottom.
Castro is 21 years old. We as Cub fans will have to watch some of the growing pains, but I'm glad he's playing in Chicago. It's one of the few things the Cubs have done right.
