Over on Desipio, CT (or CT II, as he is known over there) wrote the following post, entitled, “MacPhail’s final gift to Hendry.”

No, it’s not Brian Roberts (at least not yet).

No, it’s not a sweatervest and argyle socks.

Dolan mentioned in today’s Dose (or whatever the hell he’s calling them) that Lou Piniella was stumping for an extension for Hendry. Well, according to Bruce Levine (yeah, I know), tomorrow the Cubs are going to announce that Hendry has been extended through the 2009 season. Seems that Dandy Andy put an option year in Jimbo’s contract that kicked in automatically if the club was sold.

Diabolical.

Can this possibly be true? I suppose. But there is no way that such a clause precludes the new owner from buying Hendry off and telling him to get lost, anyhow. More importantly, if Hendry is back, I ruined lunch for everyone!