The deal existing is $10M...how much are they going to throw at the big league team to keep from losing even as much as half of that? To me, it's the bigger picture. The WGN TV deal is implicated in my mind. I'm as big a believer in Theo as anyone here, but if I'm negotiating against the Cubs, I'm certainly basing it off recent results and not the future. Does this mean we need to produce a 95 win team next year? No. But to keep people watching, they need to be more competitive obviously. Even a .500ish team with some youth showing up and helping at some point during the season is probably enough to help with the ratings a fair amount. But if you want WGN and/or Comcast to up the ante and give out the mega deal, it's not coming from the promise of future success. It's got to be further along in the process than where it currently is. Especially if they go the route of just Comcast, where you'd want them to tear up their current agreement, which is in place thru 2019. I don't think the Cubs are all that interested in WGN TV anyway.