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Never heard that story before.
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I admittedly have no idea how Marquee's lack of carriage could affect the Cubs' revenue, but 'more than double' sure shoots a hole in the idea that 'this network isn't an immediate money boost and that's why we have to sit out another off-season'. The problem though is how much of the 132 million is actual new money coming in? Not sure the actual ownership breakdown but i'd say at least half of that 132 million being paid to the Cubs is them paying themselves through Marquee. Yeah, that's what I was referring to in the first half of the post; the Cubs having an ownership stake complicates the revenue picture. Still, from that nugget, it looks like at a minimum they should be netting what they did before as far as TV money.
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This is why you sign 50 quad-A relievers, I guess.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-02-27/cubs-channel-that-fans-can-t-see-symbolizes-sports-network-woes? I admittedly have no idea how Marquee's lack of carriage could affect the Cubs' revenue, but 'more than double' sure shoots a hole in the idea that 'this network isn't an immediate money boost and that's why we have to sit out another off-season'.
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Just a bang up job partnering with the company whose channels are getting yanked left and right.
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Adore that Javy stroke. Do not adore the R logo on the Royals' jerseys. What is that?
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I don't want a strike-zone hologram, but hopefully they'll have some sort of pitch-track box during the regular season. I completely agree about the out dots. I actually had to look for them for a second the first time I saw the graphic.
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I'm already bracing myself for the Bulls to jump into the top 3 this lottery now that there are no particular prizes waiting. I've seen Vernon Carey of Duke play for like 16 minutes and he seems ok but I know nothing of anybody else.
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From Len Kasper to Chip Caray. BTW, I know nothing about Taylor McGregor, but I was amused by the fact that within the first 15 seconds she was on the air, she used the phrase "we got boned" in reference to the weather being unusually bad in Mesa.
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Fairly lame that the Marquee broadcast isn't on MLB.TV today. I guess they limit bandwidth in spring training.
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They've done that for a couple years now. I hope they branch out beyond just stuff that happened last year at some point. It's pretty funny watching Astros highlights.
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I'm sure they will but I'd be surprised if they did much with it in game, that seems like they'd use it more for behind the scenes stuff
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I'm sure that isn't a bad omen at all
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Spring Training 2020 (aka Mark Gonzales blurry photo szn)
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Now that it's not costing the Cubs $10M per year anymore I can just be mildly amused by this dude's complete inability to live life without being injured. -
Why not? More is better. I am heavily in favor of a 19 week (17 game) season with 2 byes, 1 neutral site, and 8 home/away games. Anyone who plays on Thursday has a bye the previous week. Don’t really care strongly either way about 14 playoff teams. But I guess keeping the playoff hopes of more teams alive for longer makes the season more interesting for more fan bases. Because the players are quite literally getting their brains beaten in enough. Perhaps the best player in my favorite team's history just retired before age 30 because of it. I like football, but there's enough football. I'm tired of games being added for no good reason.
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I can't believe any NFL fan really wants 17 games and 14 playoff teams. I certainly don't. But the owners are going to railroad the players into allowing it anyway.
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David Ortiz played the 'snitches' card with Fiers, too, so horsefeathers him.
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yeah they haven't had sports on the superstation for a long time. That ended after the 2014 season (there's probably some dramatic irony in that they yanked games off national right before they got good for 4 straight years).
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The buzzers are completely real and no one on Earth can convince me otherwise.
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It's weird, my understanding is that Cards fans are generally worried about the offense, but for me I look at that rotation behind Flaherty and that's where I see cause for concern. It's sort of like the Cubs' bullpen where the sheer number of options probably means that it will turn out fine, but looking at the individual names I don't see anyone besides Mikolas who I would say is more likely to be good than bad. If your baseball team had just been able to crap out competent rotations pretty much regardless of talent level for a couple of decades straight, you probably would stop worrying about that at some point.
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Only in the context of the country being a neverending waking nightmare these days, sure. Admittedly, I forgot about the thing where he basically cyber-stalked someone on Twitter, that was shitty and bad. Baseball could use more candidness like his when it comes to on-field stuff, though (and it seems like the Astros have opened that up, at least).
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I read that whole article a couple of hours ago and my God Trevor Bauer is a national horsefeathering treasure. No posturing, just a half hour of hard, pointed logic of why the Houston Astros are disgraces.
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Obligatory 'horsefeathers him he's a racist' stuff aside, if Hader couldn't beat the Brewers in an arbitration case when the way they've used him the last couple of years makes self-evident how valuable he is, then something needs re-examination.
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My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF. I LOVE the comeback against SF. Javy, Zo, and Willy were so swaggy. Joe Maddon managed circles around Bruce Bochy that night, pinch-hitting Coghlan in the 9th knowing SF would bring in a lefty and he could counter with Contreras. Probably his best work as the Cubs skipper.
