Oh, Jim Hendry. For a guy with what appears to be the correct number of chromosomes, you sure don’t understand baseball very well. Here we are on September 1st and, just as I suspected, you are still pretending that your mediocre team can make the postseason. In case you were wondering, Jim, Baseball Prospectus has you at a PECOTA-approved .78967% chance of winning the NL Central and a 2.24022% of winning the NL Wild Card. Yes, Jim. As of today, September 1, 2009, your team has a 3.02989% chance of making the postseason. But I can understand why you wouldn’t want to sell off any of your players. You’re with a franchise so historically steeped in good fortune, that 3.02989% might as well be 93.02989%!

Even Kenny Williams, feeble-minded dolt that he is, realizes Bears season has begun in Chicago. I’m not saying that trading away Jim Thome or Jose Contreras was going to be the difference in the White Sox’s season. BP only has them with a 14.42673% chance of making the playoffs. But giving up Thome puts, who, Jermaine Dye into the DH slot? Scott Podsednik, maybe? Someone shitty, that’s who. It certainly doesn’t help the Sox in the “playoff hunt,” that’s for damn sure.

So, why is Hendry so stupid that he can’t see the writing on the wall? The belief that “we’re still in this thing” presumably led Hendry to keep both Aaron Heilman and Rich Harden. One is a detriment to the team and the other might have landed the Cubs a halfway decent prospect or two, something the farm system is sorely lacking.

I’m inexplicably going to the game tonight, which makes me stupider than this entire goddamn organization. Screw you, Cubs.