No Room for Pie

It's been announced that Felix Pie has been sent to AAA Iowa to start the season. While this is a good strategic move for the organization, it means that there has been failure in the front office in the short run.

The Cube made it very clear that they did not want to start the season with Jacque Jones as their starting right fielder. Given how many good stories there were this off-season and pre-season (see: Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Theriot, Derrek Lee's health, Lou Piniella's new attitude, etc.), the Cubs seemed to go out of their way to let us know that Jacque wanted to be somewhere else.

That means that they really wanted Pie in either center or right.

That Pie is headed for Sec Taylor (and a date with the Rally Carp?), that can only mean that Jim Hendry has failed to trade a 20+ homer guy with a (now) reasonable contract.

Now, maybe they are only sending Pie down until May to wring an extra year out of him until free agency. And maybe Jacque will go away as soon as an AL team suffers an injury.

But it sure looks like Jim Hendry's best laid plans went oft awry.

There will be a short pause while everyone realizes that this is a recording.