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Won’t mean anything since these kids won’t be up until the CBA following that one. Or more likely out of pro baseball.
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The Ricketts have all the money they need to do whatever they want 365 days of the year, every year for the rest of their lives and those of their children and grandchildren.
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Cubs not going to hire a GM this season.
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I wonder what percentage of Jed's paycheck is for blatantly lying about ownership mandating a slash to the payroll 100%. He’s the Ricketts hatchet man.
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Fire sales are not how big market, smart teams operate. I suspect that the Ricketts are using the Cubs to pay down the debt for all their other business ventures, which I think is against the collective bargaining agreement. But baseball is a microcosm of America, so nothing will be done about it.
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People will be fine with it because they will say the Cubs were going to suck with or without Yu (no pun intended). But this is the Ricketts work. And it's terrible.
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Awful.
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Awful.
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Awful.
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81 wins will take the NL Central next year.
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Yea?
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The Cleveland Walleyes
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Crowhoppers? I imagine OSU will not like the use of Buckeyes. They are crazy protective and also rabidly craven about all things OSU. to the point of having "The" before Ohio State in all official information. My diploma has "The Ohio State University" on it. I was thinking of Rocks, but that might be too close to Colorado.
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As I've suggested before, they should sell the team for an obscene profit. They could keep the rooftops, neighborhood, and luxury hotel and probably make more money when the new owners actually spend enough to have a winning team. They will never sell, because when times are good and they have the leveraged property paid down/off, they have the luxury tax wall they helped to create to keep profit high. The only thing that will hurt them is if the public turns against them and stops showing up to Wrigley. That is not likely to happen anytime soon.
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The Spiders is a cool name. The uniform possibilities are outstanding.
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I wonder where the Ricketts want the payroll floor to be as they use the Cubs to pay for their real estate venture surrounding Wrigley and a faltering TV station. That's the thing that bothers me the most (leaving out the political stuff). The family chose to buy up the neighborhood and create a TV station now are having a cash flow problem that has little to do with the team. I suppose one could say it all goes on the balance sheet, but it doesn't.
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Agree, I really like him. Also, if true, the NL Central should have fecal league stats next year instead of regular stats.
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I'm still in shock.
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After living in Columbus for three years while attending OSU, I can tell you there is no worse set of fans in the country. It's not even really close. They don't even like Ohio State as much as they hate whoever they are playing that day. By and large, they are toxic horsefeathers, most of whom never went to OSU. It's not even a fun atmosphere on the campus on game day. They forced Kirk Herbstreit to move. That's how bad they are. I mean, most ________ fans didn’t go to _________ school I mean the worst ones are the ones who never went to OSU.
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Ohio State fans are the same. They simply want to beat everyone by 5 touchdowns every week. They have no interest in the Michigan rivalry game being close or interesting. They just want to run up the score all the time and are dissatisfied with anything less After living in Columbus for three years while attending OSU, I can tell you there is no worse set of fans in the country. It's not even really close. They don't even like Ohio State as much as they hate whoever they are playing that day. By and large, they are toxic assholes, most of whom never went to OSU. It's not even a fun atmosphere on the campus on game day. They forced Kirk Herbstreit to move. That's how bad they are.
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Lots of people are flipping out at Brett for posting the Cubs are open to trading Willie.
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for what it's worth, anybody who follows local chicago sports media would have heard len frequently talk about his love for radio and his desire to do radio (usually would come up when he'd be doing cubs playoff games with pat and ron) someday. it's definitely not some conveniently made up backstory unless he was playing the realllllllly long game. does that mean i think marquee's management or the ricketts had nothing to do with it? no. but i think the people viewing this story most cynically aren't locals who follow a lot of this stuff (i.e. to have heard len on his frequent radio hits, or to hear the other local guys talk about him, many who had close friendships with him like matt spiegel who played at hot stove cool music with him and stuff like that) I was mostly blowing off steam. I agree with you. Hell, he would do spring training internet radio games with the AA affiliate guy. He’s probably excited as hell. The Sox have a good young team and he’s doing what he wants. That said, the Marquee [expletive] probably made it a lot easier.
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I’ve decided Len left because he did not want to work for Sinclair and the Ricketts. The rest is him being who he is, a nice guy and true professional. Nothing else remotely makes sense. I will not waver from this hypothesis. horsefeathers Marquee and most of all, horsefeathers the Ricketts. I’m also drinking stouts tonight.
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Same