Bitter?

Every once in awhile i comment on what other bloggers are saying. Today it comes from Ivy Chat, and his remarks on Grace.

...Mark Grace, my least favorite player of the 90's, told the Chicago media that he wouldn't trade his title year with Arizona for any of the 13 years here in Chicago. Well, then why the hell weren't you more vocal about how bad the Cubs were while you were here? And why did you get bitter when they sent you out? And why were you so bitter when the D-Backs won? Were you really saying that you still wanted to be a Cub? Mark Grace is a loser. The fans ate up everything he did and he thanked them by being a good soldier and never rocking the Trib boat. We wanted to see a better team. Grace could have been a voice for the fan. Instead, he wanted to be Stoney's replacement. Thanks, pudknocker.

What does saying he wouldnt trade his title have to do with being more vocal about how bad the Cubs were? If you ever listened to Mark Grace over the years he was vocal about alot of things INCLUDING the Cubs. Just some people choose to ignore it. No one really cares what Mark Grace has to say about a lousy Cubs team, because guess what it was already common knowledge for the last 50 years. Now all of a sudden he didnt speak up enough? Ohh come on now.
In fact i think Chuck is just plain bitter Mark Grace left the Cubs and spoke the truth once he left. God forbid any other former Cub speak ill will of the Tribune and Cubs management. Ohh the horror! Ryne Sandberg has thrown around nasty comments about the Cubs for years and is one of the main reasons he retired early cuz he was sick of it. But yet just like Grace they had a weird sense of loyalty to the team they spent all these years with.

Grace wanted to remain a Cub and the Cubs basically ignored him with a you guessed it a low ball offer. They didnt respect him, why should he respect the Cubs? He put in all those years and atleast he should of gotten fair market value. The Cubs didnt think so apparently. But hey its what the Cubs have always done. Maybe Grace was fooling himself thinking they would change just for him. Anyways he had enough and found an organization committed to winning, something the Cubs obviously are not (and still are not). He saw for himself that the grass was greener on the other side and he saw the liars and hypocrits that run the Cubs for what they truely are. Business and profit 1st, competitive baseball team 2nd.

Let me tell you this right now. Mark Grace is going to haunt the Cubs in the near future i believe. Its no secret that him and Kerry Wood are good friends. And its probably not a far stretch to say that Mark Grace is letting Wood know how the Cubs run thier business. Vets, rehab projects, 1 year rentals, no vision for the future.
Wood has seen it all over the last 5 years and the only thing that might save him is the team actually winning. Which is why i believe the Cubs needed to win this year and sign guys like Kent and Thome in the off-season. Just to show they are committed to winning right NOW. They didnt do anything in the off-season and Wood signed a 1 year deal. Hendry is dieing to lock him up long term and not let him hit the FA market, thats if Hendry is a smart man. But as it goes on it looks like Wood is positioning himself so he can be a FA and be rid of the Cubs.
Wood of all people hates losing and isnt going to do the "wait and see" approach as his career slowly goes by. I have been saying it for the last 2 years that Kerry Wood will be an Arizona DiamondBack when he becomes a FA. And that will be mainly due to Mark Grace letting him know, its better to be on a team and organization committed to winning 1st.