Former Cubs general manager Jim Hendry understands why recently-hired president of baseball operations Theo Epstein decided to fire manager Mike Quade on Wednesday. "Mike texted me within an hour after Theo talked to him before it was announced," Hendry told ESPN 1000's "Talkin' Baseball" on Saturday. "We've missed each other a couple times. Basically just been exchanging texts. I'm sure he's out fishing and clearing his head a little bit. I would think sometime within the next couple days we'll have a chat. He is a good baseball man. He will land on his feet. He's been a good coach for a long, long time. I think he handled it well, as well did Theo in the exit for both of them. It's certainly understandable from Theo's side. It certainly was a classy way I think that Mike handled it too, knowing that and appreciating the way Theo went down and saw him." Quade's hiring as skipper in October of 2010 was one of Hendry's last major decisions as the head of Chicago's front office. In August, his 17-year run with the organization ended when team chairman Tom Ricketts dismissed him as general manager. "I've been lucky enough to be here 17 years," Hendry said. "We had a lot of things change the last four or five years with the ownership sale and the Tribune going in a different direction. I got to work for and with some great people. When you get to have the jobs I had -- I ran the draft for five years, the minor leagues for three, Andy MacPhail's assistant for a couple to get me ready for the job and then nine years as GM -- I have nothing but great things to look back upon my experience here. Regrettably, we didn't finish it off the two or three times we had a chance to do it and didn't finish it off, which will obviously leave a little bit of a tough thing in your soul that you didn't get to do it."