Holmes: Jed Hoyer 'loves to kick things down the road'

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While the Cubs have had a disappointing season, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer remains supremely confident in the overall health of the organization.

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00:00Jed loves to kick things down the road.

00:04Loves it.

00:06You can't just write off a season

00:08like it's a losing quarter for a business.

00:12That's how he talks about it.

00:15And it's like if there were things

00:19that you were hoping that he would have picked up

00:22and I get that they are always, as a group,

00:25whether it's Theo and Jed or Jed and Carter,

00:29as a group, that they do like to keep

00:31the long-term in focus,

00:34but I wish he would have picked up the idea

00:37of every opportunity is precious.

00:41And you had an opportunity and you didn't go for it.

00:45And these are the types of results that you get.

00:47I also think that,

00:50I wonder how they're going to look at their own evaluations.

00:55That's why I asked Carter the last time he was on.

00:58Maybe your course is the wrong course.

01:03And what things do you have in place

01:05that will allow you to really examine yourself

01:10and your approach to team building

01:14that won't allow this to be the case going forward?

01:20And them continuing to talk about the hot streak

01:24that happened last year.

01:26Well, we're kind of past the point

01:28where that started for the team last year.

01:31It was also a trap.

01:32It's a trap.

01:33It also led them to invest in something

01:37that probably wasn't worth it.

01:38They did not rise to that investment,

01:42to that stamp of validation.

01:44And they didn't meet it halfway.

01:46They said, we believe in you, we believe in you,

01:47we believe in you.

01:48Oh, gee, we're going to lose a bunch of games

01:50and our manager's fired.

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