Overheard

Jim Hendry was on ESPN Radio this morning. He basically rattled off the same things he said in the papers this week: It's his fault that the team isn't playing well. No one is being traded. Dusty Baker will get a chance to pull this team out of it's tailspin.

But then there flashed a little bit of insight into the mind of Jim. Mike Greenberg asked Hendry what he thought of Roger Clemens returning to the Astros. After Hendry joked about how he wished Roger would have gone to the AL East, he then Freudian slipped commented how great Roger has been for the Astros.

Hendry said that Roger had turned that team into one of the premier teams in baseball and that "attendance was flourishing" in Houston.

Pardon me, but Hendry chose Roger's affect on attendance as his measure that Houston was now a premier franchise? No mention of two straight playoff appearances? First round playoff series wins each year? A pennant the second? Isn't the real measure of Roger's affect on the Astros WINS?

Ah, but this man Hendry works for the Cubs. Jim Hendry's job is supposed to be based on procuring wins. Alas, we all know what the metric is for success on the North Side of Chicago.

Jim just proved it.