Give Jaque a Break

While most of you were being Hendry apoligists last year, I was hammering him. Now you've finally jumped on the HendrySucks Bandwagon which is great. What took you so long? I Have to say, though not in defense of Hendry, that you need to layoff the Jaque Jones deal. What else could he have done? Obviously Burny wasn't working in RF, and shy of Hendry having the sack to make a trade for Abreu, what were his other options??? Jones makes less than Burny would have, is faster on the bases and plays better defense.

What's really going on is you're pissed that Hendry was too cheap for Furcal so he had to use all trade bait on Pierre and maybe Tejada. This lineup and pitching staff, IN COMPETENT HANDS, could be a playoff contender.

Pierre
Walker
Lee
Ramirez
Murton
Jones
Barret
Cedeno

If they had a coach that preached patience and baserunning, this lineup could be quite difficult to meneuver around. Just look at the '03 Marlins. They didn't have a bunch of power, they just drove you nuts cause all of them made you work.

So stop being pissed about Jaque Jones and just hope that Dusty over the offseason has read "Managering for Dummies" (or has at lest looked up what OBP stands for) and while you're at it, hope that some team is dumb enough to take KKorie and Neifi for a starting pitcher. Or that the A's jump in the Game and offer up Zito to the cubs.