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 [DEL: Freudian slipped :DEL] 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?
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