DeRosa was a model cubs player, and although he only played here for two seasons, he is arguably one of the most popular Cubs of the decade. And yes before they made this deal I thought we could handle the redbirds, now I feel they are sitting pretty. This is about Jim. Do something!

I mean after all he just traded a much sought after player for blades of grass .

In a month when we are 9 back and basically out of the race. If you aren’t shocked and furious about this move, then go cheer for a team that no one cares about. Jim is screwing us over before our own eyes. And Yes I think Mark Shapiro couldn’t run a little league team with his recent moves. How can you call this whining??? This is a destruction of a 97 win team coming back to bite us in the Ass, and I’m calling for Jim to resign.

Our beloved Mark DeRosa? He played two years for the Cubs and many people hated the signing by Hendry in the beginning. This is not Ron Santo in a White Sox uniform. Comparing him to Jeter is ridiculous.

This is total over-reaction.

Jim Hendry should resign on Monday.

1. As stated above, anyone who uses the term “Cub nation” instantly loses all credibility and deserves a lifetime of mockery.

2. Comparing Jeter to DeRosa – Unbelievably obtuse.

3. We did not swap DeRosa for Miles you neanderthal, the cubs received three quality minor league pitching prospects for DeRosa, who is 34 this year.

1. DeRosa is aging, has a natural position of 2B, and is only under control until the end of the year. The prospects that we got for him are outstanding, and we can hopefully convert them into something far more useful. You can blame Hendry for Miles, Bradley, and Fukudome, but this was absolutely the right thing to do. In fact, the trade was probably lopsided in the Cubs’ favor.

2. The Indians are desperate for a reliever and have long believed that this is the only reason why they have not been in contention. They have had a merry go round of relievers the past few years. Living in Cleveland, it is a constant topic of conversation.

The reliever they received from St. Louis is outstanding and MLB-ready. I really don’t think we had anyone like this outside of Guzman or Marmol who we wouldn’t trade.

So: 1) I think the Cubs got a great deal from the DeRosa trade and 2) the Cubs could not and would not match what St. Louis gave up.

Shapiro is a shrewd guy. I can nearly guarantee you that this works out in the Indians’ favor.

GROSSLY overshadow him not willing to bend over backwards to “one-up” STL in this case.

Look, I love DeRo, and I hope we pick him up again with a 2 or 3 year deal when STL is done renting him, but as great a guy as he is, he’s not the 100% for sure answer to fix the 09 Cubs. Why give up our future to slot DeRo in for a few weeks until ARam gets back? We have Jake Fox available, with Hoff lying in wait as well… Hendry will make a trade IF AND WHEN it’s deemed WORTH IT. Giving away the future of the club to rent DeRo again when we could just resign him in November just doesn’t make any sense to this Cubs fan.

Take it easy on Hendry… he’s made far more good decisions than bad thus far. (although a good utility player would have helped this offseason… then again, who knew ARam would go done the way he did)

This is a funny post… Good job…. I almost thought you were serious.

Wait, you’re serious?

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s even funnier. Time to go back home to the basement, Cliffy. I think I hear your mom calling you.

I’d just amend your post to ask Hendry simply to resign. Period. I don’t trust any move he might make.

but to fire Hendry over this, I don’t think so. I think it was foolish to trade him, however that was January.
 If Milton starts hitting the ball, the Cubs should be able to put a good offensive team on the field, and DeRosa becomes mute.

There is so much to comment on, but most of it has been covered.

The biggest issue I have is:

This is a slap to Cub Nation’s face by Jim Hendry

Newsflash to all fans: Hendry isn’t in his job to please Cubs fans. He isn’t doing something to or for us. Neither is any baseball executive/manager/coach/player. They are trying to be successful at their job.

When Hendry fails, he fails himself and the organization. If he screws up, it’s not doing something personal to us.

Sheesh.

with the Aramis and Kenny Lofton deal. There are a number of ways Hendry has been a disaster since then:

1) Soriano signing..crazy money, crazy number of years for an aging, undisciplined, out of position player.

2) Huge money for an unproven player out of Japan (Fukudome) who turns out to be a platoon guy.

3) Signing journeyman Marquis to huge dollars, then letting him go for nothing while replacing him with a high paid China doll (Harden).

4) Revolving door at 2nd base: Todd Walker, Jerry Hairston, Neifi, Cedeno, Andy White, Fonteno, ..who have I missed??

5) No reliable replcement planned if your power hitting 3rd baseman goes down.

6) Larry Rothschild..enough said.

7) Consistently keeping injured players active calling them “day-to-day” and forcing the manager to play shorthanded instead of putting injured player on the DL immediately.

8) More than 2 dozen reports of individual perversion so profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.

Look, you wanna hang Hendry for something, hang him for not having the team they should have had leaving HoHoKam nearly 3 months ago, not now for not re-acquiring DeRo.

His hands are tied on the finances. Would anyone honestly believe that a team that has what, a $137M payroll and in the top 5 of all of MLB, NOT go out and get a versatile guy like DeRo for only $2.5M (prorated) more? He was told, “make what ever trades you want, just don’t add salary”. And until the ownership issue is resolved one way or another, that cannot change.

Just an FYI: Resolving the ownership issue tomorrow doesn’t equal more payroll money.