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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Pretending like billionaires owning a pro sports team is anything even remotely like one of us running a business is an absurd fallacy. And the second part is just gibberish.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    There's nothing random about it: the players are the reason pro sports exist and make money. Personally, I don't care how much they make because they're the ones going out there and playing. I'm not expecting the owners to lose money, but that most of them are focused on maximizing their profits over actually trying to put out the best team they can sucks. We're not rooting for an accountant, or a hardware store or a fast food franchise; it's a goddamn sports team. The owners should shut up and put up the money to win, or don't buy a horsefeathers sports team to begin with.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, that was bad. The players are the reason we're fans, and why the sports makes the money it does.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    You really think pretty much everyone else here, what, thinks of sports fandom as some kind of "serious business?" Come on.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Ricketts is a spineless, feckless disaster capitalism uber alles worm. Here's my take: And yeah, he's hardly the only owner like this; that's the problem. Sports ownership has always been a business, but it mutated in the last few decades from being weird vanity project businesses to most of the owners across all major sports trying to run teams as "regular businesses" first and then MAYBE like a sports team that they actually want to win anything a VERY distant second.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    As opposed to the other takes being...what?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Sounds like someone couldn't find the CIt.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Look, the Ricketts have a lot of money that they need to shamelessly funnel to a particular someone in this particular year.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Their social media guy:
  10. Sammy Sofa
    #That'sSoClt
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  12. Sammy Sofa
    Welfare for me but not for thee.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Nothing irrational about the cynicism.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Big, big disagree: he's getting $8 million a year. No other manager was getting more than $4.5 when he signed. They threw obviously stupid (manager) money at him to snap him up. Like, it feels like we don't need to guess about anything here: big money for a manager is peanuts compared to big money for a player, and the Cubs clearly want to continue getting more out of spending less and less, so they made their one big splash signing for a manager with a rep of getting results in a market the Ricketts sweat themselves to sleep over wishing they could go that cheap.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    A record-setting amount? Probably not.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Because they paid him a lot of money.
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  19. Sammy Sofa
    Make 'em play until their legs fall off.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Has Sammy showed up anywhere in recent years, or has he gone full hermit since this blew up?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    DERWOOD, YOU CAN WARN THE WORLD ABOUT COVID!!!!
  22. Sammy Sofa
    https://defector.com/the-bulls-are-parked-in-mediocrity
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  25. Sammy Sofa
    More Like options, please. I want an angry one. And maybe a barfing one, too.
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