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  1. crazycooter
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-tunney-issues-wrigley-demands-20130626,0,994565.story LOL GFY Tunney That is, unless this is all an act and they built that extra 1/3 into the original design so they could cut it back later. I'm going with GFY Tunney either way. What a piece of [expletive].
  2. crazycooter
    http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9366243/chicago-cubs-suspend-ian-stewart-twitter-rant-discussing-parting-ways I <3 Theo.
  3. crazycooter
    Figured this to be a good spot for this Good Lord, the comments. I'm not the "cooter" that posted those comments. I just wanted to get that out there.
  4. crazycooter
    that would be the correct way Well maybe I'm just not doing it justice with the phonetic spelling. That guy wasn't saying it the same way that Len or Pat say it. The emphasis was all wrong.
  5. crazycooter
    I'm watching the Rockies broadcast on MLB EI. The Rockies play-by-play guy keeps saying day-hay-SOOS. It is annoying me more than it likely should be.
  6. crazycooter
    Koala shark.
  7. crazycooter
    Not being good at baseball didn't seem to hurt the deal the Mariners just signed. They got $2 billion and at least a part of it is apparently going to be exempt from revenue sharing. http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2013/04/16/seattle-mariners-sign-estimated-2-billion-network-deal-with-directv/ I feel like this Deadspin article is fairly relevant to this discussion, too. It helps explain why attendance is becoming less relevant. http://deadspin.com/5789875/no-ones-going-to-baseball-games-but-heres-why-mlb-isnt-concerned
  8. crazycooter
    The answer is almost certainly yes. Buyout clauses are included in business contracts as a matter of course. I would never allow a client to sign a contract that didn't have a buyout/termination clause. I can't imagine that the Cubs would sign a 20 year deal with anyone for anything that didn't have buyout specifications. To me, the only question is how much it would cost the Cubs to do it.
  9. crazycooter
    http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/15/wrigley-field-renovations-cubs-economics-dont-worry-rick-reillys-got-this/ I'm not buying the argument from the Hardball talk guy. He's basically saying that if the Cubs made good decisions they would have plenty of money as it stands to do what they need to do. The implication is that the franchise doesn't really need the extra money that would come from renovations. While that may or may not be true, it doesn't have anything to do with whether the city should allow Ricketts to use his own money to renovate Wrigley.
  10. crazycooter
    Ugh. No navy. It feels like half the teams in pro sports now wear some combination of red and navy. I count 7 MLB teams that wear red/navy combos right now. My vote would be to keep the regular home uni as is, but introduce a pinstripe free alt for Sunday games. I also wholly support getting rid of the walking bear logo.
  11. crazycooter
    That appears to be exactly what was implied in the post that brought up that number. Right. I can't imagine that a contract on that level wouldn't have a pre-negotiated buyout. They're included in much, much smaller contracts as a routine item. Honestly, I'd consider the lack of a defined buyout to be legal malpractice (unless both parties explicitly asked for no buyout).
  12. crazycooter
    I assume that there is some sort of defined buyout clause in the agreement with CSN. Every contract I've ever seen has some form of a buyout. I can't imagine a multi-million dollar, multi-year agreement wouldn't. The only question is how much money that clause awards to CSN if the Cubs pull the plug. There's no way to know, but if I make a couple of assumptions I could hazard a guess at a top end. So, 1. Using the dollar figures quoted above, assume the Cubs get $40 million/yr from CSN (every dollar that doesn't come from WGN, comes from CSN); 2. Assume that the dollar amount paid to the Cubs each year remains the same through the end of the deal. That would leave about $210 million to be paid out by CSN on the deal. That figure would also represent the very top end on a buyout, IMO, but I'd put the likely figure at much less than that. "1:1" buyouts are not really that common in my experience, but my experience has nothing to do with MLB media rights.
  13. crazycooter
    The walking bear looks like he should be picking toilet paper off his butt in a Charmin ad.
  14. crazycooter
    +1 on the '80s cubbie bear. I'd like to see him replace the "cub walking through the C" logo entirely. I have a new era 5950 version of this hat. http://www.wrigleyvillesports.com/core/media/media.nl?id=141905&c=679860&h=19cabac93ce1b9664f2d I would have really liked to see the Cubs go that route with the BP hat.
  15. crazycooter
    Presumably there would be. I'm not an Illinois lawyer, but I have done a fair amount of contract work in my own state. Based on that, I can't imagine that an outfit on the level of an MLB team would sign what is an almost exceptionally long contract without some very specific buyout terms. Even if there isn't an explicit buyout clause the default position of contract law in most states is that "efficient breach" of a contract is acceptable. So long as the non-breaching party is placed in a position reasonably similar to the position that they would have been in had the contract been completed, the contract can be dissolved. Essentially, the law views contracts as economic facilitators, not agreements that bind parties together absolutely.
  16. crazycooter
    My only quibble is with the number of backwards hats in the renderings.
  17. crazycooter
    this is completely baffling. I run a small garage in rural Georgia.
  18. crazycooter
    Rob Neyer agrees:
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  20. crazycooter
    Not bad, but I was hoping they'd go with an updated version of the "shooting star" uniforms from their early days.
  21. crazycooter
    The pitch was a serious meatball too. I didn't really realize how bad it was when I watched it live. If I were a Reds fan, I'd be convinced that Frazier would have hit it off the jumbotron. http://deadspin.com/5951062/the-reds-season-ended-with-scott-rolen-whiffing-on-a-hanging-slider
  22. crazycooter
    Let me guess, he swung at pitches that even Soriano would have laid off of? With a 3-1 count he looked at two consecutive fastballs that were right over the plate and had very little movement.
  23. crazycooter
    I went up to the game today. I didn't expect much and Camp delivered. On the plus side I picked up a t-shirt that says "I'M WITH PETE...give me $200 on the Reds." Also, the town of Cincinnati has a raging sports boner for Ryan Hanigan.
  24. crazycooter
    Do you have extra innings? You always get both feeds if available. Apparently not if you are inside the Reds footprint/blackout area. The Cubs feed is always blacked out for me on EI when they are playing the Reds.
  25. crazycooter
    I'm 100% on the Skyline sucks bandwagon. Smeared turds is an accurate description.
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