CubinNY
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Kimbrel is just sitting out there and ate Cubs aren’t going to budge. I seriously am questioning the Ricketts desire to win baseball games.
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Juan Pierre, I hate everything he was supposed to stand for (leadoff guy, base stealer, etc.). But mostly, I hate Dusty Baker. I think Russell is the product of a terrible upbringing who brought his learning history with him. I'm not excusing his behavior. I don't think he gets it still with his recent comments. I don't think he understands why what he did was wrong. I think he only understands that he got into trouble and is acting his way out of it. He needs a good psychologist and to see the outcomes of his actions by being made to volunteer with social workers who attempt to help battered women. I think he should have been suspended for a year at least to work on his behavioral problems. I think they are much deeper than beating on women. I don't think he's going to be a passable baseball player until he deals with his behavioral problems. I certainly don't think he should be in uniform at all right now, and never again for the Cubs.
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baseball is life, horsefeathers.
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Are you high?
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it's horsefeathering [expletive].
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The Ricketts are stupid.
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it's not really that cool. I can't see horsefeathers.
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Impressive dude.
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Mark Prior syndrome is my diagnosis. He'll be doing the towel drill by the end of ST.
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Where is the one of Homer's dad entering and leaving the room?
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I hope Theo writes a book someday. I hope there is a chapter in the book about this off-season and the decision to stand pat. I really want to know why.
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Harper is going to have some monster seasons in that park if they can get someone to hit behind him.
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The Ricketts could today afford anything they want. They are in a private club who has decided they want to keep costs down and have artificially set a ceiling that they are agreeing not to go over. The Ricketts are one of the prime movers behind this agreement. Yes, you subscribe to what I like to call The Church of my Last Sentence, which is totally cool. The Cubs are not a business, MLB is not a business. It's a billionaire club that is closed. It's exempt from antitrust and the rules that you think apply don't apply. You're too smart by half.
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I'm looking at the line items of a P&L for an adjacent organization: a team that was operating poorly -- low spend/cost, low revenue. Because we know, for example, how cheap the Marlins were on marketing and promotions or anemic on attendance vis a vis the Cubs, we can attempt to fill in the gaps between that organization and the Cubs to come up with a reasonable estimate of what we think the Cubs brought home last year. The Marlins had low attendance. We know what the Cubs attendance was! The Marlins had low ticket prices. We know what the Cubs ticket prices were! The Marlins didn't pay their players. We know what the Cubs paid theirs! The Marlins didn't renovate their ballpark. We know the Cubs did! I mean, or we can just sit around talking about the Cubs have a higher valuation now as if that contributes to the organization's cashflows. Or we can say none of this matters because the Ricketts family can always sell a few houses to increase payroll. The Ricketts could today afford anything they want. They are in a private club who has decided they want to keep costs down and have artificially set a ceiling that they are agreeing not to go over. The Ricketts are one of the prime movers behind this agreement.
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Until Tom and Papa Joe cut the phone cord.
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At least Brett is all sunshine a roses
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You live in a dark, dark world. The fact that this comes from CubinNY, who has been confidently predicting the Trump downfall for like, over a year now, makes it especially amazing. That has more to do with the Teflon nature of Trump than anything else. Any one of most of the things he's done would have doomed 44 other Presidents. In hell, Nixon, Buchanan, and Harding are tipping their glasses of warm diarrhea to Trump.
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You live in a dark, dark world. That's not a bold prediction. It's right on the money, unfortunately.
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My predictions are always wrong, so I'm hoping this one is too.
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The starting pitching is good at points in the season and worse than mediocre most of the season, but not terrible. The Cubs have multiple pitchers on the DL. Hendricks loses velocity and becomes incredibly hittable. Hamels performers like a number 5 starter, Lester can't pitch past the 5th inning most starts. The bullpen is great but gets worn down by August. The defense is among the best in the league, the offense in the bottom 3rd. Schwarber's batting average stays in the low 2s, but the power is up. Schwarber gets traded at the deadline to an AL team. Rizzo becomes a mediocre hitting 1st baseman. Javy's K rate balloons. Bryant maintains a high batting average, but his power is significantly down. Contreras is the lone Cub on the All-Start Team for the NL. By July there is talk that Joe has lost the team. They have a bunch of team meetings this year. They finish a dismal 4th with a losing record. NSB(B) takes out our anger on each other.
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I genuinely want this season to be an absolute disaster. Make The Cubs Bad Again™ Maybe the rest of the universe will return to normalcy, too.
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Fangraphs have them at 88 wins, two games ahead of the Cardinals for the division lead, and with only the Dodgers (93) and Nationals (91) ahead of them in the NL. The failure to do anything this offseason is less about the Cubs being bad and more about them refusing to go over the top when the opportunity is clearly there. I don't think most people think the Cubs are bad. Getting Harper won't put the Cubs "over the top", but it will put them in a better position to win. Frankly, I'm more worried about the starting pitching (not necessarily injuries either) than anything else.
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I’d guess that the players are pretty pissed about what’s happening. I wish they would also realize this is how most people are treated by their employers. A guy I know who works construction brought in over 2 million dollars throughout contracts the last two years. One of the companies they did work for was so impressed with his work they offered him a job at a much higher pay rate. He didn’t think it was right to take the job. He told his boss about the offer and asked for a modest raise. His boss told him he didn’t deserve a raise. Needless to say he took the new job.
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Harper's marginal return on wins is not worth the financial investment the Ricketts would have to lay out because, reasons. They are perfectly content with having a contending team that will fill up Wrigley Field and populate their other financial interests surrounding Wrigley. Winning is down the list of importance.