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  1. Irrelevant Dude
    Add to that, Jed on ESPN1000 just now: Certainly not "everyone" will be able to watch games on Marquee. Even if they make a last minute deal with YouTube, that still leaves Dish subscribers out. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
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    Benetti is really good. White Sox games are easily tolerable now. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
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    The fake background noise is distracting. They need to turn it down. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
  4. Irrelevant Dude
    15 home games by April 25... Ugh.
  5. Irrelevant Dude
    I haven't checked for Marquee on my Nvidia Shield, but not all Android apps are available on the Shield. I have run into that before with other apps, where I can use them on my Android phone, but can't download them on the Shield.
  6. Irrelevant Dude
    Apparently the 2020 proposals include modified extra innings, using the minor league rule where a runner starts on second. Just throw in the towel and cancel the season. Or forego a traditional season altogether, play an exhibition schedule, and then have one big round robin tournament leading to the expanded playoffs. This is going to be a mockery of a season anyway, so let's not even call it a season. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
  7. Irrelevant Dude
    But will we, really? If the Cubs win the World Series in a drastically-shortened season, and do it with no fans in the stands, will that feel at all special? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around appreciating such an accomplishment.
  8. Irrelevant Dude
    They will get there... Next week, after the counters of 64, 68, 65, and 67 respectively.
  9. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't like where any of this is going. I am resigned to the fact that the DH is coming, even though I still don't like it. But a permanent 16 team playoff is horrible. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
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    I e-mailed them a few weeks ago for a refund and received a response within minutes and the refund a few days later. I don't want a full refund, I just don't want to pay for a full season when we're getting half a season I'm in the same boat. I haven't contacted them, since I still want the subscription, but I'm hoping they are just going to automatically issue pro-rated refunds once an agreement is in place.
  11. Irrelevant Dude
    Advertisements on uniforms? :barf:
  12. Irrelevant Dude
    The way things are going, I'm looking less and less likely to renew my season tickets next year. Maybe the owners don't care, but I'm going to have a hard time justifying continuing to give them so much of my money year after year. It is incredibly short-sighted for them to be squabbling over pro-rated salaries at the expense of both the fans and players. And if they can't negotiate this now, it is almost certain that another (potentially long) work stoppage is coming after the 2021 season.
  13. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm putting him second behind Davis for now, Davis isn't a hard one either, but expect he'll be behind Hoerner, Davis, Amaya, and maybe Hernandez What about Marquez? Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
  14. Irrelevant Dude
    The documentary is not at all what I expected. Obviously it was going to be largely focused on Jordan, but I thought it was going to show a lot more of the last run. It has been awesome nonetheless, but I feel like all the talk of unprecedented access and video footage from the last season was overselling that part of the show. It has been the Jordan story, with some 97-98 clips sprinkled in. There is nothing at all wrong with that though.
  15. Irrelevant Dude
    I wasn't going to take it, but I went back and read through the FAQ and it says that you can still change your mind and request your money back later, but you will just lose the 5%. So unless you need the cash immediately, I guess it is better to take the credit now and re-evaluate at the end of the year.
  16. Irrelevant Dude
    I just received an email from my Season Ticket representative: I'm sure they are hoping for people to accept the credit with a 5% bonus and then be essentially locked into Season Tickets for next year, but with all the uncertainty around the schedule this year (and possibly beyond) that would seem like an unwise choice for anyone to make.
  17. Irrelevant Dude
    1. Mark Grace 2. Javy Baez 3. Kerry Wood 4. Dave Martinez 5. Andre Dawson 6. Jody Davis 7. Ryne Sandberg 8. Greg Maddux 9. Kris Bryant 10. Anthony Rizzo Honorable Mention: Kyle Hendricks, Ben Zobrist, Chico Walker
  18. Irrelevant Dude
    The lack of baseball started to hit me today for the first time. With it being a relatively nice, sunny Sunday, I got outside and did a bit of cleaning and yardwork while the kids played in the front yard. It was the type of day where I would typically have radio on, listening to an afternoon Cubs game. This will likely be the first of many such days where everything "seems" normal in my little bubble, but obviously it isn't. All my summer routines are going to be completely different. Cubs radio broadcasts normally play in the background for much of my summer and it is going to be weird to possibly have an entire season without any baseball. I have resigned myself to the fact that any baseball in 2020 is highly unlikely, but until today I hadn't really processed what that would be like. All the usual disclaimers apply - There are more important things than baseball, etc. I get all that and fully understand, but it isn't going to make me miss it any less.
  19. Irrelevant Dude
    So, Easter Sunday should be good right?
  20. Irrelevant Dude
    No spoilers!
  21. Irrelevant Dude
    I think they would try, but seriously, what happens when just one player tests positive and that puts an entire team into isolation for a week or more?
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    I hate to be pessimistic, but until there is a vaccine available, I just don't see this going away. Hopefully the outbreaks can be managed once the initial surge has passed, but then there will likely be an extended period where certain areas go in and out of isolation. It is hard to imagine putting 40,000 people in a stadium together until next year at the earliest... Yeah, I wonder if we'll see an empty stadium solution as a way to get the season started sooner. Teams beginning to derive the majority of their revenue from TV contracts instead of tickets has had almost universally negative consequences, but maybe this is the positive? And then what happens when a single player tests positive and the entire schedule is thrown into chaos? There really are no easy answers.
  23. Irrelevant Dude
    I hate to be pessimistic, but until there is a vaccine available, I just don't see this going away. Hopefully the outbreaks can be managed once the initial surge has passed, but then there will likely be an extended period where certain areas go in and out of isolation. It is hard to imagine putting 40,000 people in a stadium together until next year at the earliest...
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    I certainly understand it, but this is going to be really, really weird. Moreso than any other sport, college basketball feeds off the fans.
  25. Irrelevant Dude
    It seems that we are heading toward the very real possibility of games being played without fans in the stadiums, maybe for weeks or longer. It is crazy to imagine a scenario where that occurs AND at the same time 50% of households in the Chicago area can't watch the games on TV. This is really the perfect storm of events to relegate the Cubs to irrelevance, at least for a period of time. I wonder whether this might have any impact on the negotiations, or even if MLB might step in and temporarily lift their blackout restrictions.
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