CubinNY
-
Posts
27,840 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
24
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by CubinNY
-
Banning shifting is a solution in need of a problem.
-
They can't trade players, have fans except for season ticket holders, or sell merch. Really seriously frozen, like in ice.
-
I'm backing the players regardless of what they want to fight about, but I do think an international draft is a weird hill to die on when the practical difference between that and the already-existing tight restrictions on spending in that area is not much. I think a lot of this is still on the owners for constantly being untrustworthy and now we have a situation where the players basically just want to say no and have things on their terms as a result, even though the two sides are moving closer on most issues. Now I'm just getting more sad than anything else. I am with the players, too. Unfortunately, MLB is using the GOP playbook of drawing the compromise line, not at the 50-yard line, but the 10-yard line hoping to get agreement at the 12-yard line, and when the players make it the 30-yard line they look bad.
-
Not good players, not good.
-
Apparently, the PA is not against the international draft as a concept, only that they want to delay it.
-
It looks like they are going to get this done!
-
That's a fair point. But at the same time, they are pricing people out of attending games as well.
-
It's dumb. It may benefit Apple+ as they may get a handful of new subscribers. But the vast majority of people who are baseball fans are a specific team fan first and a baseball fan last. They are not subscribing to Apple+ just for baseball. On the other side, MLB has further marginalized its product by placing a handful of games exclusively on an obscure content provider. It's short-term profit over long-term gain. Just horsefeathering stupid, stupid, stupid as usual. Instead of making the game more accessible, they are making it less accessible. Are there any strategic planners working for MLB or is just counting the money?
-
I love Grant. I wish he was a Cubs beat writer. He had another post that said something like, “my favorite thing to do on a Friday after work is to crack a beer and not watch a baseball game.”
-
Reminds me of the episodes of East Bound and Down where the goal of the show was to rip the other guys.
-
Owners are not interested in bargaining with the players. I don’t see that a season will happen any time soon.
-
Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
CubinNY replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
6 feet 6 inches tall. Amazing. -
The funny thing is the Ricketts probably don’t like soccer either.
-
Kind of ruins the the PTR narrative. The American oligarchs aren’t even trying to hide it.
-
Just got through the first episode. Very upset you didn't mention who won the first ever Home Run Derby. I still wear my undersized Aramis Ramirez Cubs jersey with pride :D Edit: Nevermind I guess the prize was a Jeremy Hermida autographed bat (which I still have!) The Aramis jersey must have been a different contest Otherwise great stuff, great podcasting voice especially I won a Felix Pie autographed bat! Very much enjoying this podcast! Great work! Boy I thought he was going to be a good player.
-
International draft coming very likely.
-
I hope someone who is much smarter than me with a much bigger audience points out that it’s rich (pun intended) these billionaires understand so-called socialism when it benefits them, but not when it doesn’t. Helping out the smaller market is the same as helping the disadvantaged. They are paying lots to make sure society doesn’t work that way.
-
Not to mention the order of magnitude difference between a billion and a million.
-
Yeah, the 2 series is transparently in case the union folds. They aren't acting like they have the intention of folding, nor should they. They already made more compromises than they frankly should have. They should hold firm now. For once, it seems like public opinion isn't almost entirely pro-owner. I would be surprised if there is a season at all.
-
The owners tried used car sales tactics on the players.
-
Commissioners largely are puppets and carrying out the wishes of owners, I really don’t know how much power they truly have. This is all on owners, imo. Not defending Manfred by any means but it’s not like he has autonomy to make a deal, the owners suck and he’s just a face/extension of them and they clearly don’t want to cut a deal outside of their extreme terms. They choose him to break/weaken the union. He was among their top lawyers before they made him commissioner. He's doing his job.
-
No shame at all. Like charging $5.00 for $0.11 of syrup and carbonated water in a $0.10 cup.
-
Amazing
-
Thanks for the recap. I read somewhere about shifting rules, but I don't know if that was a rumor.
-
Jeff still bring the chin music. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33362477/inside-self-inflicted-crisis-boiling-mlb-lockout-deadline-arrives