Everybody and their cousin picked the Cubs to win the National League Central last year. I even did so myself and on paper, they should have! Now I know they had some key injuries like when Aramis Ramirez went down with a separated shoulder, but that’s no excuse because all teams experience injuries throughout the season. D. Lee started out slow, but he finished up with some good numbers to finish the year. And who could have foreseen the debacle that would come about from the signing of Milton Bradley? I’m afraid there’s no cure for that cancer. Besides being lazy and lacking the ability to remember how many outs there are in an inning, he simply DID NOT PRODUCE. 40 RBI’s, really Milton? I could spend weeks on that pathetic excuse for a major league ball player, but maybe I’ll save that for another time. At least Jim Hendry was able to trade his bad paper for worse paper. The Big Z, more like the Big Baby. Who throws balls into the stands out of anger anymore, seriously? The man just looks for things to complain about. He had a decent season with an era of 3.77. He may be passionate and often eventful, but I think it’s strictly for personal reasons and individual stats. Zambrano has never been much of a teammate. Harden could only perform well under certain conditions when he wasn’t taking a visit to the DL, Dempster couldn’t relive the season he had prior, which would’ve been hard to do for anybody, Marmol couldn’t find the strike zone, Gregg couldn’t close a bank account, Soriano couldn’t lay off a slider in the dirt, and the list goes on and on with each short-coming contributing to the unacceptable ’09 season. Hendry has been pining to put together a team to get to and win the World Series and he’s back to work again. To sum up the rest of his moves thus far, he’s gotten rid of one of last year’s most consistent relief pitchers in Aaron Heilman and replaced him with an inexperienced Jeff Gray, He made the best and worst player dumpings in the same trade. The best dumping being that of Aaron Miles, what a joke, and the worse being getting rid of his best prospect in Jake Fox. I know he’s a butcher no matter where you put him in the field, but that can come with time. Fox can flat out stick and you put him on a plane to Oakland making Billy Beane the winner of that transaction. Hendry though, is gaining more prospects to stock-pile the Cubs’ farm system and hey, maybe it’ll work out within the next four or five years. But haven’t the Cub fans waited long enough?!? It’s been over a century! Forget the damn farm system and read a page from the book of Kenny Williams and realize that the time is now. I’m sure he’s not done just yet, but Jim better pull out the best trick he has in his bag, otherwise he’ll be seeing Pujols hoisting that coveted NL Central trophy again on 2010.
Stay here to ease your angry fix. I’ll be starting the 2010 HE GONE list citing the most significant firings of the year in all major sports. We should have a handful of names soon with Black Monday nearing. Feel free to leave any predictions in the comments section. My first prediction…Jim Zorn of the Washington Redskins…HE GONE!
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