Sammy Sofa

This thread seems like it'll be as successful as the injury threads given the dongless monsters we're dealing with.

That looks goofy as hell.

It's not directly comparable, but you have to think in line items and ratios and decide how their revenues and expenses would relate to ours. I mean, of course the Cubs bring in more revenue than the 2009 Marlins, ffs. We have discussed the Forbes estimate of ~$450m in 2018 revenue which is about 3.3x the $135m the 2009 Marlins brought in. With that said, the Cubs expenses are a hell of a lot larger, too. For example: Florida's baseball payroll was 5x smaller. Their FO staff was probably far smaller and worse paid than the 2018 Cubs FO. To your point, they were running a dirt cheap operation: they probably didn't invest much in their ballpark, marketing/promotions, or non-FO operations staff. And we know that over the past 5 years, The Cubs have an (almost) renovated stadium, a new spring training facility, a new dominican facility, etc. It's unclear whether these projects were financed over time to lessen the cost impact in a single year, but that would be the fiscally prudent thing to do. I am hopeful that the development in the neighborhood brings a ton of revenue that the ownership puts back into the team. I also don't know the mechanics of how it was financed or the breakeven analysis that was done for any of those projects. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the hotel is not printing much more money than its burned to date given the upfront costs. It's also not unreasonable to not give a flying horsefeathers how a family of billionaires and millionaires can't turn a profit at the moment on their dumb ballpark hotel.

I'm not sure I believe their system spit out somewhere between 90.5 and 93.5 wins going into 2017 (though he did say just about every year). Even its just lip service, its nice to hear though. why would you not believe that? 93.5 wins would be a very high projection. by zips it would be the highest in the NL this year. Why would we not believe things said by the organization at this point?

Right, it's a given that sports ownership is more of an ego thing than anything else, but it's still nonsense for them to try and pull a gigantic pity party like they're being stymied from raking in tons of cash. These scumbags knew what they were getting into, and they're trying to bilk the system for as much profit as possible as the priority. It damn well wasn't a surprise to them what owning a pro baseball team means.

Billionaires tend to shittily try to sell their evil as fake, "aw, shucks" incompetence. They're basically all just the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer talking about how the modern world confuses and frightens him, and then they turn on a dime and screw everyone over because of course they do.

It's almost funny how much they can shamelessly lie about this horsefeathers. They're basically saying it's so hard to make money at baseball (and it's so mean the city won't let them bilk it) that they have no choice but to do things like build hotels and restaurants (and raise ticket prices).

This is so horsefeathering stupid.

we're going to win 100 games again Over the next three seasons.

My bold prediction is that at some point Willson clobbers Joe right in the teeth, and it is awesome.

I'm trying to make "dolt" and "clod" come back in a big, big way. But yeah, the Stockholm Syndrome of most baseball fans is insane about these kinds of signings.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME WAY TO ALLEVIATE THIS VEXING CONUNDRUM.

Jesus horsefeathering Christ; that SI article on Bauer is just packed with him continually stepping up how awful he is: https://deadspin.com/trevor-bauer-says-he-harassed-a-woman-online-to-show-it-1832729834 About the woman he kept bullying on Twitter:

There's no way that Darvish signing wasn't hinged on the idea they'd be getting the most bang for their buck in the front half.

Then I guess they're just blind idiots who are as bad as the medical staff?

Probably because that's the way he's done it his whole baseball life/career, and you can't just "fix" things like that.

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Boy, it's cute to watch people pine for the freed up money their team will spend a fraction of.

Boy, who knew that Careless would have this sort of career ahead of him.

True, but that is just a coincidence when it comes to this not so bold prediction.

i hate him more than any other player living or dead, even racist murderer ty cobb Every story like this makes me both loathe him more and become more convinced he will end up being a Cub.

Machado is baller and will ball and will be better than Bryce, baby.

Love that that dude had the balls to gripe about his team calling him out for being a human nightmare.