Pirates win their first road game since May 22... What a shocker it happens at Wrigley field against a team put together by none other than Jim Hendry. Randy Wells is nowhere close to a legitimate major league pitcher and some guy from Park Ridge named Shlitters pitched the 7th. How did we get here? I have composed a summary below.
The making of the 2010 Chicago Cubs.
Let's start with the 2002 draft.
Cubs take Bobby Brownlie OF with the 21st overall pick, nobody knows or cares about Brownlie because he hasn't even made the majors but here are the picks following.
22. Denard Span
23. Jeremy Guthrie
24. Jeff Francouer
25. Joe Blanton
26. Matt Cain
WHOA!!!
Scott Kazmir, Nick Swisher, Cole Hamels, and James Loney were all picked between 26 and 45.
2003
Hendry took OF Ryan Harvey with the sixth pick in the draft. He has never made the majors. Baseball drafts are hard right? Wrong. Let's take a peek at the picks following.
7th- Nick Markakis
8th- Paul Maholm
9th- John Danks
10th- Ian Stewart
11th- Lastings Milledge
12th- Aaron Hill
Cordero and Billingsley were also taken later in the first round.
What a fucking mess.
2004
This was a great draft for the Cubs because they did not pick till #66... They took some hack who hasn't made it past AA but at least they didn't embarrass themselves.
2005
Hendry spent the 20th pick on Mark Pawelek, an Outfielder irrelevant to the game of baseball.
How did the brain trust miss these guys?
22-Jacoby Ellsbury OF
25- Matt Garza SP
27- Colby Rasmus OF
42- Clay Bucholz SP
2006
The big mistake in 2006 had to be drafting Tyler Colvin 20 picks ahead of Chris Coghlan the 2009 NL Rookie of the Year who they had previously traded the draft rights to.
2007
The Cubs used the 3rd pick on Josh Vitters and paid him more than...
5- Matt Wieters C
7- Matt Laporta OF
10- Madison Bumgarner SP
14- Jason Heyward
27- Rick Porcello
So this explains everything right? Wrong. Let's talk about the trades.
12/7/2005
Cubs Lose: Sergio Mitre, Renyel Pinto, and Ricky Nolasco, 2006 second round draft pick (ironically used to pick Chris Coghlan 2009 NL Rookie of the year).
Cubs Get: Juan Pierre
3/26/06
Cubs Lose: Todd Wellemeyer and Zach McCormack
Cubs Get: Lincoln Holdzkom?
11/16/2006
Cubs Lose: David Aardsma
Cubs Get: Neal Fucking Cotts
Now I am honestly mad but everyone needs this information.
12/7/2006
Cubs Lose: Josh Hamilton
Cubs Get: Cash
Vision is starting to blur...
These next two really explain the lack of a bullpen.
7/16/2007
Cubs Lose: Jerry Blevins
Cubs Get: Jason Cocksucking Kendall
12/4/2007
Cubs Lose: WIll Ohman and Omar Infante
Cubs Get: Jose Ascanio
1/5/2008
Cubs Lose: Angel Pagan and Ryan Meyers
Cubs Get: Corey Coles?
Free Agents:
Hendry's best signings are below...
Latroy Hawkins 2 years at 4 million per.
Nomar Garciaparra 1 year at 8.5 million
Jacque Jones 3 years at 6 million per.
Jason Marquis 3 years at 7 million per.
Carlos Zambrano... 5 years at 18.5 million per... Just so we are all clear Albert Pujols makes 14 million a year.
I have already said enough on this blog about my feelings for the Milton Bradley signing.
And the crown jewel of awful decision making has to be Kosuke Fukudome 4 years at 12 million per.
How did the Ricketts not look into this when they bought the Cubs? How was the first move not firing Hendry? I am going to go out on a limb and say that basically nobody in the organization has any fucking idea what is going on. This is incompetence at a really high level and I am not sure it should be tolerated anymore. The fans bother me too... The last thing we need is 35 year old douchebags in cargo shorts and backwards hats wandering around Wrigley Field wondering what place the Cubs are in. Grow up pal, lose the T-shirt that looks like a coat of arms and let me be the first to tell you that those green Adidas shoes you wear were cool when McEnroe wore them because he won Wimbledon wearing them. You on the other hand get loaded at Pirate's games and cry at bars when Ghana beats the US even though you have never solidly kicked a fucking soccer ball in your life. I say we take those guys to West Virginia and give them a nice tour of an exploding mine, fucking assholes.
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