Season ticket forum live

[SouthSideRyan]

They said on CSN Wednesday that only 100 season ticketholders had registered for the Q&A. I'd be curious if someone had an updated number.

 

The team has no alternative but to rehab Castro's image-either to use him long-term or flip him. But his problem has been short attention span theatre and lack of concentration. I don't know how you change that by lifting weights. Was the trouble compounded by getting mixed messages from Sveum and anybody else?

 

There are 4 times for the presentations (Friday Noon-4:30 and Sat Noon-4:30) I'd say there were ~500 people at the 4:30 one yesterday. You could bring a couple guests, but I can't believe only 100 people had registered as of Wednesday.

 

The Castro stuff actually came about in response to a question if you could lay the majority of the blame for his regression on previous coaching. Theo said it would be unfair to blame any one person for what happened with Starlin.

[BeerHere]

Cj - is apparently black?

 

It's weird, but it's always a bit of a shock to me to see a player who I've always thought was white be black, based only on name. C.J. Edwards, Donald Veal, Chris Archer, etc. There's so few African American players out there that it's always a "Oh wow" moment when you finally see a picture of a player who you've only tracked the numbers of.

 

Can't believe you guys didn't know that.

Who gives a [expletive] what color his skin is or where he's from?

[Sammys Boombox]

So we only get about six questions as a group and somebody burns one asking about the recycling plans at the "New Wrigley Field."

[pitchcs]

Well, at least we don't have to ready any more SSR updates.

 

/jump off a roof already

[SouthSideRyan]

Go eat a sandwich by yourself

[seanimal]

bombtage

 

new favorite word

[Sammys Boombox]

Yesterday I saw Ricketts driving himself to the presentation in a Chrysler minivan with stickers on the back. #broketomricketts

[Beer Kaese]

I read a number of pieces written about the meeting with season ticket holders and the one thing that sticks out is Theo's comments about August and September. The past two seasons the Cubs went into a tailspin (the Cubs are like an airplane) after the trade deadline. While he did not say it, I take his comments to mean those days are behind us. That said, I do believe they took a half step back last year or maybe better stated as the major league team only took a half step forward. The two major issues were Shark's determination to force the Cubs to bid against the league to retain him (I'd trade him as soon as possible) and Castro . . . enough said.

[jersey cubs fan]

http://laurencomitor529.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/when-it-happens-a-day-with-the-cubs-front-office/

 

Which brings me to something you may be seeing a lot of in the future. A slogan. Can you handle another one? It’s apparently a mantra among Cubs minor leaguers: When it happens. Except the “W” is the “W” flag and then the “hen it happens” is just conveniently pasted next to it. We won’t talk about the past failed Cubs slogans, “Why am I here?” “What did I get myself into?” and “Why are people throwing things at me?”

[Hairyducked Idiot]

"Red Rising" was better

[Backtobanks]

I read a number of pieces written about the meeting with season ticket holders and the one thing that sticks out is Theo's comments about August and September. The past two seasons the Cubs went into a tailspin (the Cubs are like an airplane) after the trade deadline. While he did not say it, I take his comments to mean those days are behind us. That said, I do believe they took a half step back last year or maybe better stated as the major league team only took a half step forward. The two major issues were Shark's determination to force the Cubs to bid against the league to retain him (I'd trade him as soon as possible) and Castro . . . enough said.

 

I'm not sure what Theo meant about August and September. A tailspin is what happens when you have a very limited supply of ML talent and then trade them in July, I guess the late season tailspin days might be over because he's talking about trading Shark, Castro, Nate, etc now instead of July which would mean a season long tailspin at the ML level.

[Guest]

Good point, that's probably what they meant.

[Sammy Sofa]

I read a number of pieces written about the meeting with season ticket holders and the one thing that sticks out is Theo's comments about August and September. The past two seasons the Cubs went into a tailspin (the Cubs are like an airplane) after the trade deadline. While he did not say it, I take his comments to mean those days are behind us. That said, I do believe they took a half step back last year or maybe better stated as the major league team only took a half step forward. The two major issues were Shark's determination to force the Cubs to bid against the league to retain him (I'd trade him as soon as possible) and Castro . . . enough said.

 

I'm not sure what Theo meant about August and September. A tailspin is what happens when you have a very limited supply of ML talent and then trade them in July, I guess the late season tailspin days might be over because he's talking about trading Shark, Castro, Nate, etc now instead of July which would mean a season long tailspin at the ML level.

 

http://i.imgur.com/N1lx7db.png

[hawkeyecub]

Claims cubs start every season 40m in the hole due to various factors/math I don't believe.

 

shipping costs. the cardinals own the railroad, so they charge whatever they like to move our weights back and forth. now that we have two sets, now we'll be making the real money.

 

LOL

[Irrelevant Dude]

Claims cubs start every season 40m in the hole due to various factors/math I don't believe.

I don't remember exactly how they broke down the math on the slide (if they did), but weren't they counting the $25 Million that rooftop owners are making? If so, that is very fuzzy math because the rooftop money is not necessarily money that would go in the Cubs pocket if the rooftops didn't exist. After the Wrigley renovations are complete and new TV deals are in place, I don't ever want to hear this type of excuse again to justify why they can't build a winning team.

[SouthSideRyan]

Claims cubs start every season 40m in the hole due to various factors/math I don't believe.

I don't remember exactly how they broke down the math on the slide (if they did), but weren't they counting the $25 Million that rooftop owners are making? If so, that is very fuzzy math because the rooftop money is not necessarily money that would go in the Cubs pocket if the rooftops didn't exist. After the Wrigley renovations are complete and new TV deals are in place, I don't ever want to hear this type of excuse again to justify why they can't build a winning team.

 

I didn't note specific numbers on each breakdown, but they definitely said part of it was they weren't getting full revenue from rooftop tickets. It was [expletive]

[imb]

I read a number of pieces written about the meeting with season ticket holders and the one thing that sticks out is Theo's comments about August and September. The past two seasons the Cubs went into a tailspin (the Cubs are like an airplane) after the trade deadline. While he did not say it, I take his comments to mean those days are behind us. That said, I do believe they took a half step back last year or maybe better stated as the major league team only took a half step forward. The two major issues were Shark's determination to force the Cubs to bid against the league to retain him (I'd trade him as soon as possible) and Castro . . . enough said.

 

I'm not sure what Theo meant about August and September. A tailspin is what happens when you have a very limited supply of ML talent and then trade them in July, I guess the late season tailspin days might be over because he's talking about trading Shark, Castro, Nate, etc now instead of July which would mean a season long tailspin at the ML level.

 

http://i.imgur.com/N1lx7db.png

 

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