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That's amazing quality. Interesting that Ruth and Gehrig shared a bat. BP bat. Lou had Mark Prior calves.
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horsefeathering Ricketts.
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I just read it. It’s a [expletive] article. It makes no account for context. As IMB wrote a few pages back, baseball isn’t a business, it’s a closed economy that’s allowed to make its own operating rules. If every owner was a Jeff Loria or the Rays shitty owner group the club would cease to exist. Also, there are far more lucrative investments these people could make. But the main return is the value of team.
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They had me until the last paragraph.
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I want to talk about these shitty owners some more.
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It’s another form of collusion. The owners have decided to limit themselves and act as one with regard to total salary. George Steinbrenner is long dead. It’s about maximizing profit. I don’t think they care about individual huge contracts, but they do care about the total amount of payroll for each team. The Ricketts are on board if not the leader of the group. Baseball isn’t a business, it’s exempt from antitrust laws. It’s a club that makes obscene amounts of money for those in the club.
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I dunno, there might be plenty of fans expressing congratulations to the Ricketts for their swelling bank accounts, based on the ready defense of billionaires I've seen across Cubs interwebs. I don’t get why people take sides with the owners.
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Cubs need to clear space before they can sign a cheap middle reliever. Or How I learned to rub Fentanyl directly on my forehead.
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Sources: Boras.
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Yeah, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Most high school kids get chewed up by the system, and 10 years later have nothing to show for it. Granted, this gives the NCAA more power, which is never a good thing, but kids going from high school to the minor leagues usually doesn’t end well for the kids. Neither does going to college though lol. Most of the higher ranked HS kids that wind up in college, wind up getting less money than they would have, if they'd have turned early. There's no easy solution. But, in all honesty, I don't see amateur players being a big part of the next CBA. After looking at Bertz' idea..... Its just tweaking some things. An extra year of arb, a bit more minimum salary...... Personally, I think the players need more than this, but its not a horrible compromise. In the end, a lot just depends on what EXACTLY the players are wanting. Right, the player's union has no interest in doing anything about people who are not part of the union. The minor league players need to unionize.
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This is the part that keeps gnawing at me. "and the way the rest of us might soon either be in bed with Sinclair or out altogether." I'm mostly leaning out altogether. I can't get behind the creeps who own the team and it's killing whatever is left of my childhood self.
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Good, stay away from those trust fund hippie stoners in SD. You must have never been to San Diego.
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This is something I have found people with terrible, thoughtless, baseless, and immature opinions like to say. That last bit about spending being against the rules is not even an opinion and is factually incorrect. Same is true of the Harper/Yelich OBP takes Merry Christmas! No clue what you are talking about but that’s ok. If you feel the franchise that blows the most money wins, keep telling yourself that. You’d be wrong and miserable like the yankee fanbase that rarely wins anymore and is never happy although always blows the most money. Listening to wfan this morning and all their blowhards could talk about was adding harper or machado or both as a last piece of the puzzle. It never ends. It guarantees nothing and rarely results in anything but a bigger financial hole Do you live in the early 90s?
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The rules that the richer guys make so they don’t have to pay the merely rich guys who are the reason the richer guys stay richer. Makes sense.
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The Ricketts do not have to move salary to get Bryce, they are choosing to use it as an excuse. The shine is off Theo and his group of geniuses. The Ricketts are liars. Maybe if the Cubs get back to sucking again the universe will realign itself from the tilt caused by 2016 and we can get back to normal Republicans who don't say the quiet parts loud.
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Hayward's counting stats will die a quick death in that park, or faster than they did with his time with the Cubs.
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They are making it hard to like this team.
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Lee Smith, Harold Baines elected to HOF
CubinNY replied to cl smooth's topic in General Baseball Talk
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PTR is betting the field. Those immigrant kids don’t lock themselves up.
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Rule 5/Rule V/Rule Five or whatever you weirdos want to call it
CubinNY replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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He would likely bankrupt them. Even if he doesn't, they won't be able to put enough talent around him to win.
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This article should be really interesting to IMB. Joe was coming after him.
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I agree mostly with TT. If the Cubs don't make an offer to Harper or the offer is significantly less than what he signs for, this is mostly on the front office. It seems like Theo and Co have changed their operating assumptions that pitching is a premium and value is in the offense. Maybe Chatwood burned them, but given his track record, it shouldn't have. I think picking up Hammels option was short-term thinking that is going to hurt long-term success. Players like Harper who hit free agency in their 20s are pretty rare. Having said all that, I don't think the Ricketts are living up to their statements when they bought the Cubs. By-and-large they are despicable. Anyone who supports a regime that separates children from their families as a means of deterrence doesn't get the benefit of the doubt on anything.
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Obviously, no one except Theo and his team, Boras and his team, and Harper know what's really happening. But I don't get the, "if Harper wants to come to the Cubs, he will." He will not come if the Cubs make a substandard offer. This is giving me PTSD to the Hendry/Tribune Cubs when they were happy they made a "competitive" offer. Carlos Beltran could have been a difference maker on the Cubs, but Hendry was happy with the offer the Cubs made even though it was significantly less than what he signed for. I hope they get Harper, so whatever, obviously.
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The Cubs are a cash cow for the Ricketts family or they wouldn't own them and spend money on improving Wrigley and the entire blocks around Wrigley. They are bending to the will of the other owners (and themselves) to not spend money to keep contracts down. Someday after Trump burns down the world and anthropologists from a distant planet discover the remains, they will find private communications between the owners showing collusion. Everyone knows it, but it seems impossible to do anything about it. If collusion helps the Cubs sign Harper than more collusion please and thank you. Poor Bryce Harper may only get $380 million instead of $400. Maybe playing for the Cubs will get him more endorsement money and it will even out. It's about not spending past the Luxury Tax. It's a self-imposed salary cap. Meanwhile, the owners are able to hide profits and do shady accounting and claim they aren't making money.