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best post on page 1 He was right because they were already crippled so nothing could do it to them. maybe he got an advanced look at loria's marlin docs

idiot

page 2 - how about none of the above

not to say anything of harper, but pretty much nothing is going to be potentially crippling to the cubs financially anywhere in the near or long term. best post on page 1

definitely tiger

Actually probably just the opposite, he came back to use the locker that the Cubs were going to give to Harper before they realized he was serious about wanting a big contract. fucken got his ass dude

oh i thought you were talking about spring training homers. that one you're talking about was in his regular season debut I believe

I think i remember the one you mean, as sick as that is...it was off rob scahill. i can't find a damn clip of it online anymore, but apparently javy sees the ball quite well off rob scahill, because https://www.mlb.com/yankees/video/baezs-two-run-home-run/c-1058742983?tid=11061776 i remember javy blasting a monster dong off randy wolf in that spring training edit: lookie lookie

ive always loved the weird crooked hand thing he does in this clip, you can tell how tense he was

are you talking about length or is it more of a girth thing? you have categories for soft and erect or is it erect only? im gonna have to put on my thinking cap

why would that be the best

Syndegaard was lowkey very disappointing last year

i hope you wrote TINSTAPP on a piece of paper and handed it to him

annnnnnnndddddddddd Dude just like you don't know finance I don't know journalism. Am I allowed to type now that I did the ### thing? it depends on how badly you wanna keep looking stupid i guess

the marlins had no ancillary sources of income; the cubs have dozens - 30 - [align=center]Those ancillary sources can be estimated and quantified; Forbes has already made such an estimate of total revenue. ###[/align] annnnnnnndddddddddd

holy horsefeathers that is dark

I'm looking at the line items of a P&L for an adjacent organization: a team that was operating poorly -- low spend/cost, low revenue. Because we know, for example, how cheap the Marlins were on marketing and promotions or anemic on attendance vis a vis the Cubs, we can attempt to fill in the gaps between that organization and the Cubs to come up with a reasonable estimate of what we think the Cubs brought home last year. The Marlins had low attendance. We know what the Cubs attendance was! The Marlins had low ticket prices. We know what the Cubs ticket prices were! The Marlins didn't pay their players. We know what the Cubs paid theirs! The Marlins didn't renovate their ballpark. We know the Cubs did! I mean, or we can just sit around talking about the Cubs have a higher valuation now as if that contributes to the organization's cashflows. Or we can say none of this matters because the Ricketts family can always sell a few houses to increase payroll. the marlins had no ancillary sources of income; the cubs have dozens - 30 -

you're being made fun of not because there's some ignorance of the fact that you have to spend money to raise your valuation, you're being made fun of because you are looking at the finances of a team who operated as poorly as possible on purpose to excuse nonspending by an ownership group whose every decision for 10 years has been aimed at creating a money printing machine.

guys maybe amazon can't pay their employees $20 an hour, we know this because my local grocery store can't

look guys, it's reasonable to believe that the ownership group who saw the value of their investment almost quadruple is actually broke because notorious liar cheapskate jeffrey loria ran his team, the historically poorly operated marlins, at a loss for a couple years in the worst baseball market in the league so he could sell the team at a massive profit.

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. the cubs, as an entity, are worth 3-4x now what they were a decade ago. this comparison is completely faulty and meaningless.

what he didn't say: our projections have us in first place what he did say: our projections have us in the right place (third place) we suck again

the freaking marlins and jeffrey loria are not some analogue to the modern-day cubs, come on for one the marlins entire operation is essentially a AA team compared to the operation the cubs have with the wrigleyville area and their monetization of it. Not to mention you're comparing baseball-mad chicago with freaking miami and it's 100 percent naive to take any financial information about loria at face value. His entire operation was to strip that thing down as cheap as possible so he could sell and make a massive profit. running at some minor loss for a few years was a feature not a bug.

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