Relity Check for the Donut King

If Jim Hendry harbored any delusions of this team contending for the wild card, the debacle of last night's game hopefully convinced him that that is not going to happen. It's time for him to size up the individual pieces and identify which ones will bring him top prospects, and trade accordingly. As I posted yesterday, Big Z and Derricles are the 2 players the Cubs should rebuild around. If Jim does it right, he can pick up several quality prospects for some of the more sought after players on the team, let them play out the rest of the season in Chicago, promote a few of the top prospects like Felix Pie and allow them to show what they have, and then go out in the offseason and sign some top tier free agents and give the fans, as well as Carlos and D Lee some hope for 2007. By the way Jim, doing it right includes deep-sixing Dustbag the Windbag. Which probably means that Jim won't get any of it right. He'll keep Baker, trade a few guys for minor leaguers that won't pan out, and all 2007 will mean is one more year that Lee and Zambrano won't get to the playoffs.