to stay on to guide the chicago cubs past the trade deadline. made the playoffs three times on watch but back-to-back losing seasons sealed the fate. leaving here with nothing but gratefulness to be part of the organization for 17 years not many get to do that. not many allowed to be the general manager for nine years without a world championship more than my fair chance. disappointed in myself that we did not do that. batt but the goal is to win a world series to do that we need to get better. i believe by bringing in new leadership to do baseball organization we can get different perspectives and different ideas on where to go in the future. tom ricketts says the to ship coming from outside the organization. assistant general manager randy bush taking the job on an interim basis beginning the search immediately much more on the dismissal with reaction from chicago cubs later in sports. live at wrigley field speaking to fans for reactions. much of the talk extra inning whe
warned by the owner in july that he would be out . he had a 500 record with the cubs but that was not enough for the ownership of the team they needed a fresh approach . the goal is to win the world series and to do that we must get better i believe that by bringing in new leadership we may get some different perspectives and when some more ball games . i m not believe the problems come as a good man. we just didn t win enough ball games that s the bottom line. we took a text pole from viewers and 91 percent said that jim hendry did need to go after all this time . a fan i spoke to said change was needed it s about time we as cubs fans and the last three or four years have been struggling watching them try to put a competitive baseball team out there on the field . teams like the twins and the marlins and the devil rays always have great teams and we keep trading away the talent . jim hendry is known as a great guy in the national league . he was very gracious to the be