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This is why the hotel will be crazy expensive Yeah, on weekend dates in the summer, it will likely be $400/night plus parking. Offseason, though, I could see you getting a room for $100-$150. A boutique hotel built next to Wrigley field will not go for $100/night. It won't be a holiday inn express. Even in the offseason. EDIT: And they are partnering with Starwood for it, which specializes in upscale/luxury brands I've gotten rooms in nice hotels on off peak nights in the 100-150 range. That includes downtown Chicago. Yeah, a Sunday night in February is going to be cheap.
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Wasn't Lillibridge already DFA?
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
There's also been massive regime change on the Bears and they will have to adjust to the new offensive system, which will not be easy early on. You also shouldn't discount the turmoil New Orleans dealt with in their coaching staff, contributing to their downfall. Its the 5th game. Regime change isn't an excuse by that point. And the Bears hsve had a new offensive system every year for the last 4 and played well to start the season. But the same defensive coaching staff almost the entire time. And the defense was the part of the team pulling the load. That defense is on the downslope now and the offense will have to be the one carrying the load. An offense led by a guy who hasn't coached in the NFL for a decade and assisted by multiple guys in the same situation. -
Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
There's also been massive regime change on the Bears and they will have to adjust to the new offensive system, which will not be easy early on. You also shouldn't discount the turmoil New Orleans dealt with in their coaching staff, contributing to their downfall. -
I've been a casual fan for years. Grew up on the Penguins, watched every game of the Lemieux/Jagr Stanley Cup seasons. Never really got into the Blackhawks like I did other Chicago teams, though I rooted for them in their Cup year. Columbus has been so supremely bad, that they were hard to cheer for until recently. Do you also root for the Patriots, Duke basketball, Alabama football, and the Miami Heat? Just kidding. Mostly! Not sure why you'd extract that from my post because you rooted for Pittsburgh's near dynasty and then the Blackhawks in their championship year.
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
That early in the season the chances are not as good as later. Not the Bear weather thing but I always want to force New Orleans outdoors in more wintery conditions. Agreed. The Bear weather thing is meatbally but I think there's definitely something to wanting to get a high powered offensive dome team in crappy brutally cold weather. Pass happy dome team whose divisional opponents are all either dome or warm weather as well. -
Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
That early in the season the chances are not as good as later. Not the Bear weather thing but I always want to force New Orleans outdoors in more wintery conditions. -
Unless the Brewers team bus goes on a DUI rampage
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DeJesus up there all eyebally and Starlin gets all swingy.
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That's why they went after and paid this front office.
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And then when we let it drop, we won 61. just thought i'd let you know, you're being willfully ignorant here Talk about willful ignorance, you're talking about Jim Hendry's awfulness. A higher payroll with smart people helps you win.
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payroll is repeatedly being presented here as the only important variable, in nearly every post it's just become so tiresome The fact that they so drastically reduced payroll in such a short amount of time is directly related to how poorly they've done on the field. Paying more isn't the only way to get better, and it's not a guarantee to getting better, but gutting payroll to the extent the Cubs have is a guarantee for getting worse.
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Well, part of it is that the Cubs have a pretty healthy payroll as it is, somewhere between 103 and 110 million depending on your math. If you're of the same mind as me, they're able to have a payroll up to 15 million higher without much issue. They used to have a healthy payroll, but they cut off their arm because of a hangnail and ripped out their tongue because of a sore throat and now they aren't that healthy anymore.
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Yeah, they must feel horrible with their measly 2 top-100 prospects when they could have Garza on their DL instead. Garza has been worth 5.9 wins since joining the Cubs and could have netted a haul in another trade if he didn't land up on the DL. Whether or not the Cubs decide to keep him, or flip him again this summer, I think it's safe to say, the Cubs easily won the trade. There's a pretty enormous difference between "won the trade" and "fleeced them so bad they never want to deal with the Cubs again." And that's not taking into account the future production of those prospects, or the fact that the Rays could easily trade two top-100 picks for something of value as well. And that they didn't have to pay Garza any money the last two years. The whole point of trading him in the first place was he was about to get expensive. They didn't want to spend $6m on him, which would have been like 15% of their payroll. The Cubs will have spent $26m on Garza by the time this season is over. Tampa didn't want to do that.
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I doubt we'd lose much. If the Cubs' value was contingent on them having a good team, it wouldn't be as high as it is (obviously). If you spend 5 years eroding your television ratings it is going to have an effect. The same way the Cubs value would have been effected if they never had 2003/2008 to show owners how much of a cash cow this team could be even with just a glimmer of hope.
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ball's carrying
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boom shocka locka that nearly went over the chain link fence
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Darwin you magnificent bastard.
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It's not an either/or option. It's mostly bad timing (much like the TV situation); the city and the state have no money. They were never going to get anything. Right, but governmental insolvency was an issue prior to him purchasing the team.
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https://twitter.com/BruceMiles2112/status/324956285038628864/photo/1 That's quite the picture. Not sure I've seen it like that without already going through a rain delay.
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my god that beard is glorious
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Is Marmol pitching for them? This guy misses by feet at a time, then right down the middle.
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He took way too long to make the decision about management and the team has gotten worse and worse under his ownership. Those are the things intelligent Cubs fans didn't want to see happen.
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Every teams spends most of the dollars on expensive major league talent and comparatively little on the farm. The teams that consistently win consistently spend more on payroll than the others.
