does this guy really believe this shit? who are the great players that hendry scouted and brought to prominence in the major leagues!?

wow. he was fired july 22nd and therefore was at the helm for all these decisions at the trade deadline and afterwards... he was given one more chance to throw $2.5mil at 14th round draft picks? dude, he was playing with house money... there's no doubt he overpaid these shitty draft picks in an homage to what he did with samardzija (tho in fairness, he's having a solid season, but still.... sigh)

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What I want to know is why tell him July 22nd? What does that accomplish if you are planning on keeping him on to run the draft? Couldn't that only have negatively affected the team?

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Team Cutler.

I was thinking Gerard Depardeiu.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I just woke up (off today). My son told me,I thought I was still dreaming.

Figures the next guy is named Bush. I bet the Ricketts sister loves that!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Good riddance!

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

I find it funny that Hendry is coming across as being "shocked" this move happened.

So, when does the Hendry statue go up?

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Yeah,they can have one with him on his knees with his head up Ricketts ass.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I am literally rolling around on my office floor laughing!

I hear that this Brian "Satan Elf" Cashman move to the Cubs rumor is really gaining traction. People need to really start talking about it more, and writing letters to Tom Ricketts.

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Hendry is NOT "stepping down" Mr Ricketts, you fucking fired him. And thats fine, but don't say he is stepping down.

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How will you ever get the Jiffy Lube oil out of your shirt?

'Great Legacy'

His 'winning record' is ONE FUCKING GAME OVER .500 TOM

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Team Cutler.

A statue connected to a fountain with water coming out his eyes?

Yeah, I'm the same one going with the human condition and compassion angel, so Who'm I Crappin'?

Edit: Ooops, meant angle. I like compassion angel though. Possible mult?

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I do not know. Let me ask the computer that will eventually replace you at your job. Wink.

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I wish that this story had broke during the B&B show so we could get their MST3K type commentary on top of it. Danny Mac and Speeeegzzz seem to be standing back in deference to this SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS

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The GM reports directly to Ricketts? What about Kenney?

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You know me like that.

Just the other day, I heard the "great" terry boers telling everyone that Hendry would be back next season.

Now we will have to hear about how he knew this was coming....LIAR

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

He makes a great cup of coffee.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Wasn't the rumors about Pat Gillick consulting with the Cub reported around july 22?

EDIT: DeLuca had a Sun Times story about it on July 23.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball ... -cubs.html

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Rickett's has an amazingly bad ringtone on his phone.

Bruce Levine now has zero sources inside the Cubs organization.

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I remember B&B talking about this a week or two ago... they, or well, Dan was saying that Gillick was getting weary because the process was talking so long, which led into one of Dan's rants about how Ricketts changes his mind as often as the wind changes direction in the fair city of Chicago.

"We're not going to look at internal candidates for the GM job" -- THANK YOU, GOOD SIR!

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Ricketts is far too involved in baseball operations.

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You know me like that.

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Am I just completely ignorant (please don't really answer ) or am I the only person to have ever heard of the "Disqualified List"......twice in one year til now?

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about 3-4 games under when u add in the playoff record

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Truth

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Its 7 games under. The Cubs have lost 9 consecutive postseason games.

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Holy shit... did I just hear the leader of the Ricketts clan talk about how they printed up a packet to give to new draft picks about the "Pride and Tradition" of the organization so that these kids are "realize how much respect they should have that they're in this organization"

are you fucking shitting me?! how many pages of the pamphlet are dedicated to todd hundley, the blauser/orie/servais offensive bermuda triangle, playoff successes of the last ~27 years, the milton bradley, alfonso soriano, and carlos zambrano contracts, and of course, the kevin tapani era?

Face it, you creepy looking dipshit, your organization has a proud tradition of being bad at baseball. The "culture" that your ballclub promotes is the kind that hangs up severed goat heads on a Harry Caray statue in order to "reverse a curse"... TWO POSTSEASONS IN A ROW!

Whether it's Don Baylor doing absolutely nothing outside of "the big book of baseball rules", Dusty Baylor's "can't forget about holly/neifi/jose-macias" crap juxtaposed with his battlecry of "give me my horses", lou pinella's desire to be floating in a pool drinking scotch from mid-2008 onwards, or the tenets of the mike quade era, this team is just bad bad bad bad bad and like I obnoxiously said with the large font and the nicholson-joker picture, THIS BALLCLUB NEEDS AN ENEMA!!!

Tell your draft kids that the Cubs have been around for ~120+ years or whatever, and most of those ~120+ years have been god-awful and you gotta respect the fact that many people still proudly identify themselves as fans of your team despite just about everything related to your ballclub being god-awful and actively making any thinking baseball fan want to retch. That's what you respect, not some "privilege" to play for an organization that they have to "respect" merely because it's old. jesus.

If this is the kind of hokey crap you do to "change the culture" then you're going to remain losers for another hundred years no matter who's steering the titanic. I'm going to channel my innermost bernstein by saying CHANGE THE DAMN CULTURE BY GETTING REALLY GOOD AT BASEBALL! WIN A DAMN WORLD SERIES! THAT'S HOW YOU CHANGE THE CULTURE, NOT BY GIVING OUT PAMPHLETS TO DRAFT PICKS!!!

btw, why the fuck is kerry wood speaking? this fortifies my stance that he's the official cubs mascot in the post-santo era.

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Northside Dan getting some text love.

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