I voted to sign him now through 09.

Of course he might want a longer commitment than that,

I think he’s been our best GM in my lifetime or second to Dallas Green,

What an error I made in my post, Meant to say his good has far outweighed his bad,

I spent several hours with a group of Sox fans today, Drained brain cells.

You don’t end sentences with commas.

Tomorrow’s lesson: Paragraph breaks!

Surely he understands that. If he wants to someday become a “free agent” then that is his peragotive.

in favor of more money and security.

Hendry has done a great job as GM. Not all trades have been successful (pitching for Pierre) but he’s made some steals. More important, he’s set a tone for the franchise that makes people want to play for the Cubs and stay with them. Zambrano, DLee, and Aramis could have made more money in free agency, but elected to stay. He seems to treat people right, and that counts for a lot.

New ownership has the right to make decisions, but retaining Hendry is a no brainer.

Land C.C. at the deadline

He would then have the legacy of the greatest GM in Cubs history.

better than most probably. I still don’t like that he traded 3 or 4 young pitchers for Juan Pierre. But as it turned out, none of those have turned to gold either.

but I don’t like it when people are already saying that this is our 2nd playoff year in a row. The Cubs can collapse just as easily as the Brewers did last year.

Aramis Ramirez.

I voted long extension. No brainer.

Didn’t he hire Dusty?

By himself, I don’t think Jim is supremely astute – at least not at the level of GMs who on their own can transform an entire organization. As it is, that kind of uber-GM is pretty rare. He’s more like you and I on the job, where we need to have competent people around us all pulling in the same direction to do the best work we can.

Once Andy MacPhail and Dusty Baker hit the road and McDonough/Kenney and Lou came aboard, things really clicked. Hendry has the full financial backing of the higher-ups who actually seem to have some Cub fan in them to boot. And Lou seems to have convinced him of the merits of OBP as “not making outs so frequently” instead of “walks clog the bases”.

Jim is a hard-worker, extremely diligent, and comes across a people person who is respectful and cordial to the media and fans. Another way he’s like us is that he won’t rest until there’s a championship banner flying over the Friendly Confines.

I think he’ll make some acquisitions for the second half – hopefully a pitcher or two, and hopefully without undercutting the whole farm system or upsetting the balance of the current roster. Who he’s brought in so far this year and last (Soriano, Lilly, Edmonds, DeRosa) have really improved the lineup, and it’s nice to see some of the farm products having a hand in the success as well (Soto, Theriot, Marmol, Gallagher).

We’ll see if JH stays once the new owners arrive. If they give him the support and assistance he needs then it wouldn’t be a bad thing at all!

and would have put us over the top. It wasn’t Hendry’s fault he came up lame. If he could have stayed healthy I think it would have been a much different year.

...great GM. Sign the guy for a long extension as soon as possible. Period. – TL