General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Cubswin11]

Were the 1998-2004 Cubs a dynasty?

 

Resume:

Winning season more often than not

Won a play-in game before it was even in the rules

Iconic 1998 Home Run Chase

Murderers' Throw

2001 team super underrated, would have been replacement for Giants in the WC game if their plane had crashed and the WC game had existed back then

The 97-03 Marlins, best dynasty of all time. IMO

[WrigleyField 22]

Speaking of dynasties, anyone watching the BBC Dynasties show?

 

Definite best dynasty so far was David the Chimpanzee. Dude got left for dead in a coup (and lost a damn finger) , only to drag his bleeding ass to catch up after being miles behind his old crew and reclaim his role as alpha male with little more than a "horsefeathers you I still run this crew" outburst and subsequently not accepting his overthrowing plotters apology and retaining alpha male status for an unprecedented 5th year. GOAT Dynasty. Puts the 90s Yankees to shame.

[NotSoSober]

Wathing MLBN righ now and apparrently we're the worst tea m in the NL Central. according to Pecota predictions. 80 wins Ibelieve it was. They must think Lester and D a rvish are broke and B ryant is dead.

[Derwood]

Wathing MLBN righ now and apparrently we're the worst tea m in the NL Central. according to Pecota predictions. 80 wins Ibelieve it was. They must think Lester and D a rvish are broke and B ryant is dead.

 

MLB Network also had Yadier Molina as their #2 catcher in all of baseball, so let's not get too wrapped up in their hot takes

[David]

Wathing MLBN righ now and apparrently we're the worst tea m in the NL Central. according to Pecota predictions. 80 wins Ibelieve it was. They must think Lester and D a rvish are broke and B ryant is dead.

 

MLB Network also had Yadier Molina as their #2 catcher in all of baseball, so let's not get too wrapped up in their hot takes

 

It's based on PECOTA, not their hot takes. Apparently he didn't read the last few pages and you didn't read that post, lol.

[David]

I won't call the Giants a dynasty either. They were a lucky-hot second-tier team most of those, and they didn't win any of them consecutively.

 

The last MLB dynasty was the Yankees.

 

Were the 2009-15 Blackhawks a dynasty?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I won't call the Giants a dynasty either. They were a lucky-hot second-tier team most of those, and they didn't win any of them consecutively.

 

The last MLB dynasty was the Yankees.

 

Were the 2009-15 Blackhawks a dynasty?

 

Nope. And it always annoyed me that people tried to claim it.

 

Anytime we have a perfectly good word for describing something, fans have to stretch it because they really want their favorite to qualify. And then the stretch gets stretched. And then the stretched stretch gets stretched. Next thing you know, you get something blithering like the Cubs winning two division titles and having two split wild cards being put up as a possible dynasty.

 

Dynasty was coined to describe things like UCLA basketball under Wooden or the post WWII Yankees. I’m willing to allow for a little bit of a stretch to something like 3 straight titles or 4 in 5 years, but even that is starting to water it down quite a bit.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I won't call the Giants a dynasty either. They were a lucky-hot second-tier team most of those, and they didn't win any of them consecutively.

 

The last MLB dynasty was the Yankees.

 

Were the 2009-15 Blackhawks a dynasty?

 

Nope. And it always annoyed me that people tried to claim it.

 

Anytime we have a perfectly good word for describing something, fans have to stretch it because they really want their favorite to qualify. And then the stretch gets stretched. And then the stretched stretch gets stretched. Next thing you know, you get something blithering like the Cubs winning two division titles and having two split wild cards being put up as a possible dynasty.

 

Dynasty was coined to describe things like UCLA basketball under Wooden or the post WWII Yankees. I’m willing to allow for a little bit of a stretch to something like 3 straight titles or 4 in 5 years, but even that is starting to water it down quite a bit.

Hawks were totes a dynasty. They won a bunch of stuff and were good over a period of time. So claimith I.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

At no point did they rule any longer than an ordinary champion does

[David]

I won't call the Giants a dynasty either. They were a lucky-hot second-tier team most of those, and they didn't win any of them consecutively.

 

The last MLB dynasty was the Yankees.

 

Were the 2009-15 Blackhawks a dynasty?

 

Nope. And it always annoyed me that people tried to claim it.

 

Anytime we have a perfectly good word for describing something, fans have to stretch it because they really want their favorite to qualify. And then the stretch gets stretched. And then the stretched stretch gets stretched. Next thing you know, you get something blithering like the Cubs winning two division titles and having two split wild cards being put up as a possible dynasty.

 

Dynasty was coined to describe things like UCLA basketball under Wooden or the post WWII Yankees. I’m willing to allow for a little bit of a stretch to something like 3 straight titles or 4 in 5 years, but even that is starting to water it down quite a bit.

 

kyle, be useful and do one of those mock roster things with what our team could look like next season.

 

 

Sharp-Toews-Hossa

Teuvo-Anisimov-Kane

Dano-Shaw-Panarin

Versteeg/Bickell-Kruger-Nordstrom/Hartman/Morin

 

That would be one of the best set of centers we've iced on opening night in the dynasty era.

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/archive/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=64050&p=3233281&hilit=dynasty#p3233281

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just because I think a common usage is dumb doesn’t mean I’ve never used it. I say dumb things all the time

[Banedon]

I say dumb things all the time

 

[David]

Brandon hates the Simpsons and posts Friends GIFs

 

how do you spot out a sociopath for 1000

[Banedon]

Brandon hates the Simpsons and posts Friends GIFs

 

how do you spot out a sociopath for 1000

 

[Banedon]

To be fair though...I don't hate the Simpsons. I just haven't watched them a ton.

[SouthSideRyan]

I say dumb things all the time

 

 

I was hoping for Big Lebowski "tattoo it on your forehead"

 

10 seconds of gif finding and I couldn't find it, so oh well

[Regular Show]

 

Injuries, changes in pitcher usage, and a heightened awareness of prospect-success rates have shifted the way talent evaluators view the best up-and-coming arms in baseball.

 

Good thing for Theo & company because we really don't have any (pitching prospects). Ahead of the curve again, amirite?

[Backtobanks]

 

Injuries, changes in pitcher usage, and a heightened awareness of prospect-success rates have shifted the way talent evaluators view the best up-and-coming arms in baseball.

 

Good thing for Theo & company because we really don't have any (pitching prospects). Ahead of the curve again, amirite?

 

Apparently there aren't any good FA's either.

[SouthSideRyan]

Hopefully there's no such thing as a hitting prospect either.

[Brian]

if the whole loan covenant thing was real, that's over now too, right?

 

Now they have a new loan covenant for this. With blackjack. And hookers.

 

Al Yellon actually got to the bottom of this in some sort of blogger Q&A he was able to be a part of after the Tom Rickett's press conference a couple of days ago.

 

I asked about the five percent of the club that had been retained by Tribune Co. after the sale in 2009, and the fact that the team recently repurchased that five percent, and whether that reduced the debt service the Cubs had been paying. He answered, quite directly, “We had to take on debt to make that purchase, so the amount of debt service is about the same.”

 

If you thought that was the only depressing thing to come out of it...

 

Regarding revenue from the channel, Tom said he expected “eventually” they hoped to make more money from it “than our current situation, and that’s one of the reasons we did this, beyond to deliver better content,” and that “ultimately it will go back to the players, but it’s too early to tell how much.” He did say, “I’m not going to promise extra dollars for player payroll, but it will allow financial flexibility.”

 

He was asked if the Cubs are generating cash flow, and he said, “This year? It’s questionable.” A follow-up asked if money from Hickory Street Capital (the Ricketts venture that includes the Hotel Zachary, among other things) is used for the ballclub, and his response was, “As much as the hotel has been successful, it doesn’t generate a lot of money to help the club, and those assets are kind of outside the team, at the moment. You can’t sign a free agent on hotel revenues.”

[CyHawk_Cub]

Jesus, if it's that much of a slog, and that difficult to make money at this racket, I can only hope the saintly Ricketts family can sell this franchise without losing the clothes on their backs.

[Sammy Sofa]

It's almost funny how much they can shamelessly lie about this horsefeathers. They're basically saying it's so hard to make money at baseball (and it's so mean the city won't let them bilk it) that they have no choice but to do things like build hotels and restaurants (and raise ticket prices).

[jersey cubs fan]

It's almost funny how much they can shamelessly lie about this horsefeathers. They're basically saying it's so hard to make money at baseball (and it's so mean the city won't let them bilk it) that they have no choice but to do things like build hotels and restaurants (and raise ticket prices).

and they can't even make money off that hotel

[Sammy Sofa]

Billionaires tend to shittily try to sell their evil as fake, "aw, shucks" incompetence. They're basically all just the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer talking about how the modern world confuses and frightens him, and then they turn on a dime and screw everyone over because of course they do.

[Cubswin11]

It's almost funny how much they can shamelessly lie about this horsefeathers. They're basically saying it's so hard to make money at baseball (and it's so mean the city won't let them bilk it) that they have no choice but to do things like build hotels and restaurants (and raise ticket prices).

and they can't even make money off that hotel

They’re basically the Bluth’s