What Are You Prepared To Do?

It's been a good week to be insanely busy with real world work and have the Cubs on background mode. I guess the Cubs were so upset with the quiet on this page that they decided to make it possible to totally ignore them.

This is a team that is now 15th in the ML (ahead of Pittsburgh) and 28th in MLB (and Kansas City) in runs scored, 27th in OBP (Pitt, KC and LA Angels), 29th in OPS (San Diego).

There is not an adjective to describe how bad that is for $94 million spent on payroll.

The pitching is 19th in ERA, 16th in WHIP, and 21st in K/BB. That's not putrid, but expected when you have to have four rookies (but only three at a time) in your rotation.

The question to Jim Hendry is: Overpay to try to get better; Launch the coaches; Punt and plan for 2007.

If it's me, you might be able to do all three. It's time to let Dusty go and bring in an ass whipper who doesn't enable crap like Michael Barrett pulled today. You can plan for 2007 and improve at the same time by unloading Jacque Jones. I hear the Yankees lost their outfield.

Yeah, what could you get from the Yanks for Jones? Who cares? I'd settle for a Duke Brothers wager!

We'll have more hear in a few days about what WE can do and WHY it's important.

And, why it may be the only thing that gets regime change at Wrigley. Andy MacPhail has had 12 years. Time's up.