Avoiding arbitration is clearly their top priority.

[daske17]

Which do you want??

 

Which do they want??

 

Are they the same??

 

BTW, they drew 3 million + fans last year. Don't go thinking they weren't pleased with that.

 

What we and Cubs management want should be the same thing, and I have to believe it is: to field a World Series champion. Certainly, it's the goal of MacPhail, Hendry, Baker and the 25 players on the field. But as been noted by other posters, their efforts to field that champion aren't the best.

 

As for the 3 million+ fans, of course they were pleased with that! Who wouldn't be?! However, I don't think there's a conspiracy that as long as the crowds come, the team won't spend. It isn't the amount of money poured into a team, it's how they use it.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Which do you want??

 

Which do they want??

 

Are they the same??

 

BTW, they drew 3 million + fans last year. Don't go thinking they weren't pleased with that.

 

They aren't connected at all, and it's infinitely more difficult to win consistently as it is to avoid arbitration. It's a ridiculous comparison.

[SouthSideRyan]

Which do you want??

 

Which do they want??

 

Are they the same??

 

BTW, they drew 3 million + fans last year. Don't go thinking they weren't pleased with that.

 

Yeah those douchebags shoulda hoped for 2 million to come in as their punishment.

 

The management wants to win just as badly as we do, they're just incompetent at figuring out how to do it. It takes a hell of a lot more than "wanting to win" to actually win. The team that wins the World Series every year isn't just the team that wanted to win the most that year.