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For one, it is hard to negotiate with one entity if you have no other fallback. Second, WGN falls under tribune broadcasting which is a very big entity with all sorts of networks and reason to want to be a part of the sports biz. Although I have no idea if they do actually that interest.
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Sorry, but this just goes back to the point that if you spend a few years with the only mandate being to acquire prospects, it is not an accomplishment when you actually acquire prospects. The better run organizations don't run on a single, prospects only, mandate where results in the major league do not matter. This thread may be about prospects in the news and be located in the minor league forum but it still falls under a Chicago Cubs website.
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And another 3 or 4 may owe some of their standing to Epstein/Hoyer player development despite not being drafted or signed by them. sure, why not.
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The same reason the Trib wanted to field a good team while in the process of selling the team. It's a lot easier to sell a television product when lots of people are actually watching it than to make up numbers that ask you to ignore the last few years when nobody watching but assume they will watch again. -
Well yeah, that's the one name I recognize, but I don't follow other teams enough to know who these other guys are or where they came from That Shoop was the head coach at Columbia, and they sucked. Gattis played for the Bears at one point.
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Shoop!
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If this deal sucked and Kenney negotiated it why would Ricketts keep him, promote him and sign him to an extension?
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Just to see where everyone stands on the Cubs sucking
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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He's gonna hate the super bowl
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The cubs sold half a million more seats than the madoff mets despite a worse record and 3 straight 90 loss seasons. You think that happens in groupon park at Allstate field?
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It was signed at a time when sell-outs were the norm and seen as an extra source of revenue not available to them otherwise.
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It's not whether you would win or lose in litigation. It's whether the rooftop owners could get an injunction while litigation is pending. This seems to me like the theory that in order to win consistently the team has to be built the right way and the only reason to build the team the right way is to lose a lot of games for several seasons to build up the farm system. We've already dealt with a year long delay. An injunction isn't going to cause a bigger problem than not doing anything in the first place.
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I don't think you realize how much of a draw Wrigley is. Compared to the temporary draw of a new stadium, increased seating, as well as what I previously mentioned, I don't get it. What don't you get? The temporary draw of a new stadium might last two seasons, the Wrigley draw works every season. Increased seating is not necessarily a good thing. The scarcity of seating at Wrigley is part of what makes it such an easy sell when the team is any good at all. It will also cost $1B or more to build the stadium. And who knows if the rooftops will sue the Cubs if they abandon them in the middle of their contract.
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Start with a baseline of building a new "state of the art" stadium costing $1B and then dealing with selling off/devaluation of their Wrigleyville assets and I think it is quite easy to see how moving could be tough. Communities are willing to hand over the land, but they aren't going to build them the stadium. You also might have a baseline of support of as much as 500,000 tickets sold per season based only on the fact that it is Wrigley Field.
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That would be ridiculously expensive, with having to buy not only the real estate but also the revenue streams attached to it. But also would provide the Cubs with additional revenue sources. There are 16 official Wrigley Rooftops. You're looking at, probably $200MM at least and that's at market value, not "we're trying to [expletive] you over because we hate each other" value. They'd financially probably be better off waiting until the contract runs out to do any renovations. I really wonder if "all the buildings" is really necessary to change the equation. Seems to me that only a handful are actually affected.
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That's an interesting way of putting it.
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I actually think Hendry would have been a better GM with tight fiscal restraints. He did a good job building up the farm system when that was his focus. If he didn't have the money and the mandate to spend big at the major league level, he may have continued to focus on building through the farm. It's all guesswork now, though. He could have built a solid pitching staff, but without money the team wouldn't have scored a run a game. Although he or his staff was responsible for drafting/acquiring our #1 rated prospect, plus 3 other top tens, 2 more guys from the best 25 and under list and the guy who was used to acquire another top ten under 25.
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The two new guys are a combined 118 years old with about 75 years of coaching experience. I have to think there is a reason behind that, like they felt their staff was very inexperienced, and maybe somewhat disrespected by the veteran players. The two guys they replaced were both around 40 with only about a decade of coaching each.
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Somebody please explain* to me how anybody could view the Cubs pursuit of Tanaka as anything resembling "puzzling". (*please don't actually explain, the entire concept is stupid and any explanation would be doubly so). Haugh has proven time and time again that when he took that "In The Wake Of The News" promotion, he took idiot pills as required by all that write that column. I mean, if they did sign him he's writing about how they had no choice and really had to do it, right?
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Somebody please explain* to me how anybody could view the Cubs pursuit of Tanaka as anything resembling "puzzling". (*please don't actually explain, the entire concept is stupid and any explanation would be doubly so).
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It's not required, but if you try sooner than that you might not be able to sustain the success and instead you'll be terrible for five years. In order to avoid risking five terrible years, we must have five terrible years. I think a minimal definition for consistent success should be no consecutive sub .500 seasons. But we can only start counting after consecutive .500 seasons so these years don't count.
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Gibberish. If you seriously want to debate this stuff just say so and I'll make a thread. Did you just hit me with the "COME AT ME BRO!!" ? "Meet me in the parking lot after school and bring your friends!" :lol: Wow. You take an invitation to debate the topics you're being so defensive about as some kind of threat? You realize I'm talking about posting things on a message board, right? Man, that's weird. It was quite shocking when the truther interpreted a straight forward statement in a convoluted manner.
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Yeah. Some are dumb ditzes, some are successful professionals. And some dance at Mons Venus.
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But again, they aren't punishing him for positive tests. They're punishing him for lying to them and obstructing the investigation A completely sketchy and unethical investigation.
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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
