CubinNY
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The Cubs signing Gallen is far far from a sure thing with the QO attached.
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They aren’t willing to go long term but also aren’t willing to go make good. What did any one else expect? like here’s the pitch- well we don’t think you are good enough to invest long term but also you might be so we are not going to give you an opportunity to show you can. Ready to sign?
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The straw grasping and rationalizing is both expected and pathetic
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lol right on cue
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Who said we are tight lipped? That’s never been a problem here.
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I never considered that but it makes a lot of sense.
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So weird how this process has gone. Maybe Boras has something to do with it.
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We have one- it’s called The Ricketts are awful for many reasons. You have to go to page 3 or something
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We should know more by this afternoon if not sooner
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It’s like with Cease. The Cubs were interested but when the agent said we are approaching $200M, the Cubs bowed out. One could say they were never in it to begin with because they never made a formal offer, but I’d bet they made a proposal that would make manny fans happy.
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Lollypops and rainbows
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Week 17: Bears at 49ers Sunday SNF 7;20 on NBC
CubinNY replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Ya think? The D just needs to make some stops or force field goals. -
It’s the NY Post, but still..
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They. Have. A. Deadline. In. Place. Already. - From my understanding here is how it works. The agent gathers offers from interested clubs. Many times the clubs meet personally with the agent and player, but not always. The agent views the offers and discards those that aren’t what the player is looking for. The agent then goes back to the clubs, sometimes with player input and sometimes without (see Freddy Freeman), and begins negotiations with clubs. The clubs then give their final and best offer and the agent presents the offers to the player to decide. A club may say, “we are under a tight timeline so we need to know by X date”. To which an agent may agree or not ( see Nick Castellonos, Cubs negotiating). But if a club says you have x days to decide, the player either had no options or few options.
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I love how when they don’t get a player PTR is the hero of the story.
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Lol
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They do it all the time, lol. Why would they put a deadline on a process that already has a deadline and the seat doesn’t start until April?
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Week 17: Bears at 49ers Sunday SNF 7;20 on NBC
CubinNY replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Track meet. -
Week 17: Bears at 49ers Sunday SNF 7;20 on NBC
CubinNY replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
lol, I go to brush my teeth and bam, Bears up 7. -
In just a few days it will be 2026 and it boring AF around here. Let’s talk about the state of the farm system. I’m no expert or even a novice, just an interested amateur, but the farm seems to me to be bereft of talent. If you exclude OWNKC, Mo, and Alcantara who will graduate or possibly be traded there is not a lot going on. Wiggins, maybe Jefferson Rojas and John Long are about it. Hernandez did well in his 2nd go around in low A, but at 22 and a professional since forever it seems he’s likely to be just a name. For pitchers? is the outlook better than I think or is this a bad farm system?
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lol. Say it bigger it might make it true.
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The Cubs make a nice foil for whomever Boras is negotiating with.
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Thank you. But I don't think we know the whole story. I am also not sure if those Forbes numbers are accurate, but even if they are off by a lot, it doesn't matter. They don't want to pay for "past performance" (TM, PTR, 2017). They want to build a franchise by underpaying pre-arbitration and arbitration players and supplement them with veterans. But they won't pay a player one penny more than they think he should make, even if he's the best fit for the team. I also think they are greedy mother horsefeathers and don't want to share profits with the other owners. So they have bought up the real estate around Wrigley and are heavily in debt (right now). They are using the Cubs to leverage their real estate speculation and finance their debt. It's probably all perfectly legal, but it means their "profit" is going into other things besides the Cubs. Again, probably perfectly legal. A cynic might even call it smart. So their overall goal is to create a destination and have Cub fans pay them the moment they get off the El until they get back on it or back to the bus. And their prices make Bob Igor blush. So when PTR says they are trying to just break even, he's probably not lying, but he's not telling the whole truth either.
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You are entitled to your opinion. How much is enough profit? How much should a family pay to see the team? Anything the owners decide? Do they have a responsibility that goes beyond owning a simple business, like, say, a furniture factory? If a furniture business made close to a 70% profit, how long would it stay in business without anti-trust protection, as baseball owners have? If the answers to these questions don't bother you, you are part of the problem.
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Week 16: Bears vs Packers Saturday 7:20pm on FOX
CubinNY replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Lololol. He’s like Ron Santo doing pbp for the Cubs. He gets excited and forgets down and distance. I love listening to him, but he’s so bad it’s good.
