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Pretty much. This is goofy, even for davearm2. Rather than jumping directly to the conclusion that anything that comes out of my mouth must automatically be goofy, maybe you should take a closer look. The Cards just raked in a whole bunch of extra cash this month. Handing a chunk of it to Albert to convince him to stay hardly seems goofy to me.
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I found a great article on this, actually, although it illustrates only gross ticket revenues. http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3081:mlb-average-postseason-revenue-over-the-last-decade&catid=26:editorials&Itemid=39 Using their math, the Cards' gross ticket revenue estimate for 2011 postseason was $3.5M (NLDS) + $6.6M (NLCS) + $14M (WS) = roughly $24M. Not included are: game-day expenses ancillary game-day revenues (parking, merchandise, concessions etc) indirect revenues that accrue the following season (new or increased sponsorships, added season ticket sales, etc). Naturally all of those things are going to be sketchy to estimate, but you've got $24M in the pot right off the bat.
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I am all for building from within, but as a large market team, we can afford to spend when it is prudent. I have no doubt that Pujols and Fielder both will probably not be worth the money at the end of their contracts. On the other hand, both will likely be worth it early on. This, in my opinion, is the time to go big with an impact FA...and then by the time the contracts are burdensome, the building from within will hopefully produce players that help the Cubs weather the large contracts when the players aren't living up to that value. Pujols and Fielder are the type of FA that likely are going to produce worthy of the expediture early on. Seems to me the way to do it is to sign the big FA's *after* (or at the same time as) the "building from within" plan is bearing fruit. Don't you want the expensive guys' prime years to overlap with the years the young guys are actually producing in the bigleagues, not the ones they're playing in high-A? Your plan has the expensive guy producing while the kids are developing, and the kids producing while the expensive guy is declining. Better would be for both to be producing at the same time.
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I said add it to their offer. If that offer was $200 over 9 or whatever, now it's $200 + x. That still seems like it would put them too far apart, at least over a contract the length of what Pujols reportedly wants. I dunno what it'd take for the Cards to get Pujols to re-sign, and neither do you. What we do know is that they have more money in the bank now than if they had missed the playoffs. Using that extra money to boost up their offer sure seems reasonable to me. :shrug: Ergo, winning the WS does change the equation in the Cards' favor. No. Winning the WS does not improve their long-term financial resources to retain Albert Pujols. I seriously doubt you're suggesting they'd offer up some kind of absurdly front-loaded contract, so let's just nip this silly tangent in the bud right now. Why is this so hard to figure out? The Cards are struggling to find a way to afford to keep their greatest player ever. Serendipitously enough, they just stumbled into a financial windfall by playing an additional 18 postseason games. Put two and two together here. "Hey Albert -- remember that offer we gave you in the spring? It's still good, but add another $X million onto the signing bonus."
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Seems like there's plenty of room to add a video board the same size as the scoreboard, or even larger, immediately to the RF side of the current scoreboard, without obstructing any rooftop views. http://vineline.mlblogs.com/2009/03/24/wrigley-field-at-work/
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Bingo. The future of the CF scoreboard is not in Theo Epstein's hands. It's in the hands of the same people as before Theo arrived.
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Managing the Diamondbacks, duh
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I said add it to their offer. If that offer was $200 over 9 or whatever, now it's $200 + x. That still seems like it would put them too far apart, at least over a contract the length of what Pujols reportedly wants. I dunno what it'd take for the Cards to get Pujols to re-sign, and neither do you. What we do know is that they have more money in the bank now than if they had missed the playoffs. Using that extra money to boost up their offer sure seems reasonable to me. :shrug: Ergo, winning the WS does change the equation in the Cards' favor.
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Thanks for the warning ;)
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Maybe Z can have his interview with Theo right after Quade's.
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I said add it to their offer. If that offer was $200 over 9 or whatever, now it's $200 + x.
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Maybe not. The Cards made a bunch more money this postseason. What if you're the owner and decided, "let's keep half of the postseason profits for ourselves, and add the other half to our offer to Albert." Seems reasonable, since he's at least half the reason they won the darned thing in the first place.
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Me too. I've been against Pujols, but it's because of the 8-10 year commitment. Those last few years scare the bejesus out of me, and no amount of "well we're a big market team and can afford to eat a big contract" is going to change my mind on that. Pujols isn't "a big contract". He's 20% or more of the payroll. $30-$32M per for 6? Go for it.
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IMO you're grossly understating the size of MLB's casual fan pool... that group that will tune in if their interest is sparked a bit, but will flip to something else otherwise. Now whether the whole HFA thing provides that spark is certainly debateable, but MLB has a huge "undecided" audience they're trying to capture.
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I never understood the "fixing" in the first place; it's not like there's other baseball for people to watch during the ASB. Obviously the problem they're trying to overcome is that there's other stuff on that isn't baseball that people were choosing instead.
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Didn't you see Bull Durham ;)
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... and in the position the Rangers are tonight. Gawd it's gotta suck to be a Rangers fan right now.
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Yep I would think about that for about 0.07 seconds. Marmol's elbow is a ticking time bomb, and now his wildness is once again a big red flag.
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Get ready for 4-hour ballgames, friends ;)
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Absolutely. Having the most valuable holdover from the old regime buying into the new regime is big. One would think Wilken will greatly help ease the transition, too.
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That's not fair enough. His stance on football players is absurd. You don't know how to react to a play? Oh shut up. You react to the play and call that you see. Who the hell just sits there and ponders whether he should cheer because of the possibility that the review guy will summon the ref to take a look and overturn it? That's moronic. His stance on football is not absurd. As it is, a TD isn't a TD until the replay official confirms it. It doesn't bother me personally, but it's easy to see how it bothers some folks.
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Wow only 5 days until free agency is wide-open? Sweet. Thought it was like 10 or 15 days after the WS. Glad it isn't!
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I didn't say they would. I just find it less enjoyable to know that the call on the field isn't necessarily how it's going to turn out. Curious, would you be in favor of ditching replay entirely in the NFL? If so, then cool, agree to disagree and all that. If not, then the hurdles you're putting up can be worked around.
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Who will be the manager? Quade Fired (pg 15)
davearm2 replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The place you take all your junk and write it off on your taxes later.