Bradley

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=63948:date=Sep 21 2009, 08:07 PM:name=Lance)-->QUOTE (Lance @ Sep 21 2009, 08:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->You know...even following baseball for about 40 years, I still find myself, occasionally, an extremely naive Cubs fan. I'm pretty sure I said, at the time of the signing, that I thought Milton would become a fan favorite--and I think he would have if he had performed when healthy.

That being said, I was wrong. He's got major problems and Jim Hendry makes a whole lot of money to have a better guess than me--he should have known given the history, that Bradley would be disastrous.

This is just one more nail in the coffin of any optimism I have about the Cubs' free agent signings in the future. There have been some decent ones, but the Bradley signing has to end Hendry's career--and I'm not one who says that kind of thing in a light manner.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


This is where I'm at too. I've heard umpteen times that Ricketts won't fire Hendry for a year and I have never understood this idea at all.

Why would anyone assume Ricketts has no vision for the future? Why would Ricketts not know who his guy in the front office is going to be? Why would he not want to prosecute that vision at once? And then you factor in this stuff...

I will be disappointed if Hendry is the guy making moves this winter.