Instant Reaction (Angry Rant Edition)

Blogs are great because I can read about news, react to it, and post without taking more than ten minutes to actually think about what I’m writing. This is like a psychotic’s wet dream. Anyway, Jim Hendry did yet another stupid thing today, and before I even have time to rationalize it and come up with a moderately thoughtful response, I might as well rant about it.

So Matt Murton, who hit .400 in Spring Training and has done nothing but post a .800+ OPS in every season, gets sent down at the end of Spring Training. Fast forward to last night: Soriano goes down with Martin Grammatica disease. DL stint likely. Everybody in their right mind says the same thing: “Well, at least Murton will get his chance now. With his OBP offsetting his lack of SLG, the Cubs should still be okay even without Soriano for awhile.”

But Jim Hendry is not in his right mind.

Eric Patterson will get the call up today, and they’ll go with DeRosa/Johnson in left and Babe Ruth Fontenot at second base.

I’m fairly certain Jim Hendry bet the over on the 100 years between World Series victories. Between his ridiculous inability to trade Marquis and open a spot up for Marshall, to sitting idly by while Rich Hill gets moved to 5th starter, to banking on a guy who put up a Juan Pierre-like .382 SLG against righties (Johnson) and a guy who has had exactly three weeks of good play in his entire career (Fontenot) instead of a guy who is guaranteed to put up a .370 OBP and .800 OPS, I think he’s actively trying to lose games.

I hate Jim Hendry.