Sammy Sofa
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Basically there at least used to be SOME owners who seemed to view owning a sports team as a gigantic ego-stroke for which they were willing to forgo at least some of the strict expectations of things like quarterly reports and huge profit margins. Not that that they were maniacs willing to always run things for a loss, but they stood out in contrast from the cheap owners. Now it feels like everyone is trying to be a cheap owner; yeah, it's a sliding scale of how cheap they are, but man, the bouts of horsefeathers YOU spending were terrifying and exciting, and something that I long yearned for the Cubs to be, and this FA class seems like it's custom-made for that kind of spending, yet nobody is stepping up. It sucks. The business of baseball sucks right now. -
Yeah, and it sucks. Nobody is realistically expecting a sports owner to run at a loss and just spend whatever without any consideration to the return...but the flipside of that is that it's absolute horse horsefeathers that one of the most profitable teams, with things like already obscene ticket prices, goes out of its way to cry poor (IMO past the point of the usual negotiation wankery), as if they're struggling to turn ANY kind of profit. It's garbage to have to swallow that they can't figure out how to sign a generational talent because of a "woe is me; excuse me as I dab my eyes with these crisp c-notes" narrative because of horsefeathers they decided to dump their money into that's only tangentially related to the team (ie-all of the Wrigleyville stuff outside of renovating the ballpark and creating a non-joke FO setup), and because the city wasn't suckered into footing the bill for as much of it as possible. The BS they spouted before was that all of this would result in more money for the team, but now the exact opposite is happening....meanwhile the ticket prices will continue to rise, the neighborhood will continue to become more and more of a horsefeathers ass, generic, Buffalo Wild Wings-style bacchanal, and whatever godforsaken TV deal setup they end up with will likely cost fans a ridiculous amount and be a gigantic pain in the ass. Woo- horsefeathering -hoo.
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Ah, yes; Chicago's under-policed mini-Bourbon Street with the wonky crime stats to not scare away the suburban bros and bro-ettes and their precious, precious dollars. So deliciously and impressively revitalized now that there's a hotel, too.
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Stay classy, homie.
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Pretty simple question: do you think that at this point that the Cubs are likely to sign Harper for the 2019 season? Me, I shifted into the acceptance stage of figuring it's not going to happen, and I would be pretty damn surprised at this point if it did.
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How are they not helping themselves by trying to wait out these players and agents to see if they can (relatively) lowball their contract demands? The only thing gained for management if they jump on those players now is, obviously, locking up those players before someone else can...but they'd have to pay more to do that, and, again, it's clear that every single team is trying to outdo the next in how to pay FA's as little as possible, regardless of the talent-level.
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Pretty crafty way to duck out of all holiday obligations.
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Given how every single team is shamelessly trying to pay as little as possible, I think you're vastly overstating how unusual it is for none of these guys to be signed as of 1/8.
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Besides the very obvious, "management sucks?"
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Well there's your problem. Oh, but this is the kind of rando internet crazy I love precisely because it makes absolutely no sense. Like, who looks at this goober and decides, "yup, THIS guy is the inspirational figure I aspire to be?" I seriously think he could get his own cult going if he wasn't such a complete idiot.
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Reading the comments about this....horsefeathers, I'm pretty sure he's some kind of cult leader. What the holy horsefeathers.
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For real, though....why the hell does DERRICK ROSE have such an intensely insane and dedicated legion of fans?
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I'm also now convinced that the classic Jimmy Buckets gif is him somehow traveling through a wormhole and reading that tweet in real time:
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HE MAN.
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horsefeathers; the FO is totally going to trade for this schmuck, aren't they?
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Guys, this may surprise you, but it turns out that Trevor Bauer is a fragile manbaby: https://deadspin.com/trevor-bauer-has-been-harassing-a-woman-for-more-than-a-1831545503 Ideally Baez was just confused that this stranger who apparently wandered into the baseball clinic kept insisting on reading tweets out loud like a totally normal person who is super confident and not at all insecure and creepy.
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But is he enough of a terrible person for the FO to be interested in the first place? Gotta have the whole package to really get the Theo Treatment.
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Round 1: Eagles at Bears Sunday 3:40 on NBC
Sammy Sofa replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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The Cubs are going to have the highest payroll in the NL this year Note to self: it's really difficult to find SFW bootlicking gifs.
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That looked really bad. You could actually see it pop. I was packing up to drive back from Chicago, so my dad has this game on while I was coming in and out of the room. The most football I've seen in years, and I got to see that. Fuckin' football.
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Please stop.
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What are the odds that we get even just one of his teammates at least saying that this sort of thing is wrong?
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In addition to the horrific stuff imb posted from the article already: If you haven't read it already, do so since the site is up and working again: http://www.expandedroster.com/2018/12/19/melisa-reidy-is-speaking-out-its-time-for-everyone-to-listen/
