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  1. J.R.
    Thanks man.
  2. J.R.
    I'll add a few positives - Soto looking good, Pena playing excellent defense and Quade making sense. Pena will catch on. Getting him out of the AL East may just save his career. I'm not worried about Aramis yet. He had a decent day yesterday. Look at it this way - if we can win on the shoulders of Sori and DeWitt, think where we'll be when Byrd and Pena wake up.
  3. J.R.
    Loved it.
  4. J.R.
    Sweet play.
  5. J.R.
    Exactly. There is no urgency in buying April tickets when in all likelihood you will be able to get more desirable games at better prices later.
  6. J.R.
    Ricketts has overplayed his hand. Ticket prices have gone from merely unreasonable to absolutely obscene. If you look back at some of the old games they sometimes show on CSN with Harry they will celebrate 25K in attendance and 2 million for the season. I wonder if in a few years we may go back to that. They should be able to sell ~25,000 season tickets into perpetuity, so I don't think we'll go back to the 1980s definition of success anytime soon. However, by pulling stunts like pricing bleachers for $80 out the door, they've driven the urgency out of the market. In years past, people would buy up April weekends because it just might be the only way to get weekend tickets. Not any more.
  7. J.R.
    Ricketts has overplayed his hand. Ticket prices have gone from merely unreasonable to absolutely obscene.
  8. J.R.
    Isn't that a few innings longer than it normally takes? I'm pretty sure Jason Heyward happened about 6 minutes into the season last year. Progress. [expletive].
  9. J.R.
    http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480_public/sir/inmaSIRIL_.gif
  10. J.R.
    Tarp is not yet deployed. Players are out for BP.
  11. J.R.
    Contempt for the Bears is just about the only emotion I can muster for football.
  12. J.R.
    http://cubs.truelook.com/timages/live20/chicagocubs/chicagocubs_cubs_club_only_camera1/imgbuf/buf_48/1301317283700958.jpg The calm before the Quade.
  13. J.R.
    Can't believe the Giants resisted the urge to break these out tonight. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/3370434434_4f31a5d2bd.jpg
  14. J.R.
    The Padres ditched their "sand" road uniforms. Sad.
  15. J.R.
    What's not to like? This is the first of four days in a row with games coming on all day long.
  16. J.R.
    Won't be long now! http://cubs.truelook.com/timages/live20/chicagocubs/chicagocubs_cubs_club_only_camera2/imgbuf/buf_255/1301317283634840.jpg
  17. J.R.
    No, but it did keep the cash rolling in. Drayton McLane has pursued the opposite strategy, pegging Houston's payroll commitments at less than $15 million after this year.
  18. J.R.
    Agreed.
  19. J.R.
    What?
  20. J.R.
    Again. http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/27981042
  21. J.R.
    http://media.nj.com/yankees_main/photo/9335188-large.jpg http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/02/yankees_pitcher_mark_prior_get.html
  22. J.R.
    In all fairness to the organization, the marketplace has featured tiered pricing for years. Last year, lots of people paid $72+ to sit there on Opening Day and significantly less for the same spot two days later. Now, the ballclub is pocketing the difference instead of Gold Coast/eBay/PayPal/StubHub. The "fans" wanted the "brokers" out of the mix. Welcome to the new reality.
  23. J.R.
    There is a tremendous volume of reading material on the 'net concerning Madoff, the Wilpons and just how deep the scheme went with the people in the Mets organization. It is embarrassing to MLB in general and the National League in particular to have the Los Angeles and New York franchises mired in such ridiculous predicaments.
  24. J.R.
    Remarkably, Opening Day is scattered singles everywhere except the bleachers, where boatloads of $72 tickets remain. I applaud the Cubs for getting anyone to pay $72 face to sit out there.
  25. J.R.
    The way pricing is now, the club has to be insanely good for you to make any money on the secondary market. With little hope of an exemplary season in the offing, the resellers are not in the mix today. I used to fund several trips to Wrigley just by snapping up extras and reselling them. That isn't possible now.
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