Ryne Ween
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I wish i rooted for a team thats only success over the last 4 years was a potential improvement in minor league instruction.
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These guys didn't draft Baez. So the entire basis for any optimism for this franchise is two hendry-era picks and a guy that woulda been autodrafted? Is there anything positive that this regime, baseball or business, that I can appropriately attribute to them?
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The Trib-Hendry-Zell era of '03-'09 was 3 playoff appearances and .519%. Then they sold the team for a massive financial gain with a favorable transaction structure. So id say baseball-wise it was decent and business-wise it was phenomenally well executed. To match that nightmare we need to win the division and 103 games in each of the next 3 years and then sell the team for a trillion dollars.
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Im not evaluating them from this point forward. Im evaluating from the purchase. This is so much worse than I could have ever imagined. Winning the 2019 WS is not enough. Improving the farm system is not impressive when you do so at the detriment of the big league team. Its pretty easy to select the unanimous best available player at #2 af a 100 loss season. Almora and Baez are guys good teams cant draft. Alcantara is Hendry and they bought Soler. Its not hard to stockpile prospects when you ignore your big league team, trade anything of mlb value and lose as many games as possible.
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Gotta get these signs up! Absolutely have to get these massive revenue generating signs up or may as well not have a team. Revenue generators!!! I wonder if the triangle hotel bar is gonna be a Tom Rickettscorn and will do the bison stuff. Thats vertical integration! I wonder if the menus can have some ads for local businesses on the back thats a revenue generator.
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That ribbon ceremony reminds me of a plant opening in North Korea.
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Or Bernstein is a horrible jackass and doesn't know what he's talking about.
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2014 Winter Olympics (Beware, no spoiler tags)
Ryne Ween replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
The talent pool for womens hockey has to be very limited. I was an ok high school runner and id have a couple gold medals if I only had a vag. I would also take 4 guys from gym and win the WNBA championship. -
2014 Winter Olympics (Beware, no spoiler tags)
Ryne Ween replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
The talent pool for womens hockey has to be very limited. I was an ok high school runner and id have a couple gold medals if I only had a vag. I would also take 4 guys from gym and win the WNBA championship. -
Yes buy them out. Its not the hard. Commercial real estate is a very mature market. They know the cash flows, they cant be far off on what they are worth, these things are pretty much a formula. This is an outside entity, very simple for them to buy. Leverage it. Great history of financial health, historically low commercial interest rates, aggressive lending environment. Keep the prior owners on to run their shops, keep them on as minority owners. When you get serious about a payday for these roof top people you will start to see them divide on it, cut off the vindictive people, unreasonable people. At the end of the day people love to sell their businesses especially to strategic buyers who can pay more. This isnt hard to figure out. Ricketts must run in a wealthy crowd. Get a friendly buyer to come in with assurances of cooperation with the team. This is easy just do it.
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Its two minutes long, wouldnt that be too long? Production value a bit low for something that would cost a billion dollars to air.
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That was McGwire's justification for why he was going to be a great hitting coach and why steriods did not help him hit home runs.
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Not if you were generating the kind of backspin that McGwire was or if they were still talking about homers you hit in legion ball.
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Great matchup on now. Miami coming out possessed. Looking forward to bulls tonight.
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Cubs Net? Thats not happening.
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GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Crane Kenney became President 8 [expletive] years after the rooftop deal was made. No groans! Everything I can find credits Kenney with negotiating the 2004 agreement and that makes sense since he would have been general council of the trib at that time.
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Gonna wake up early to see the back half of the match tonight. Made a pretty big bet on Fed at 20:1 to win the championship, so very interested financially. Can't hedge because nadal is a heavy favorite. Rolling with the greatest of all time. Don't feel great about about it though.
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And one other thing. This leveraged partnership that is allegedly creating issues, likely outright prevents them from moving.
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Leaving wrigley would be an absolute disaster for the team and the owner. It's not an option the idea of it is absurd. Just being "near wrigley" is a big enough deal that these rooftops are a corporate entity capable of intimidating a massive pro sports franchise. The location the stadium, the fact that the owner literally just purchased the stadium and surrounding land. And while the people posting here are intentionally eschewing the sentimental draw of wrigley, the general populace will meet a relocation with deafening rage. Bartman had to go into hiding for potentially affecting a play. Ricketts would be harassed for the rest of his life it's not happening. And have any of you guys actually been to rosemont?
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Or until a settlement is reached. Which they are saying they need anyway.
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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. By not starting the construction you have already effectively given them an injunction. Many many large commercial projects (often with budgets that dwarf the cubs proposed projects) start with threats or even imminent litigation or during litigation.
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Why did they enter into this contract in the first place tying a hand behind their back for 20 years. For 17pct of revenue of these things? Do we know how much the rooftops collectively remit annually to the cubs per this arrangement? Pre contract why did the cubs settle for 17pct if they had the ability to render them completely valueless by blocking the views. Why sign a 20 year deal for a 17pct rake when you literally hold all the cards. Crain Kenney has survived too many bosses to be that stupid. There has to be more there.
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I truly believe there is a huge element of smoke and mirrors here. There has to be more to the story than the RTOs being unreasonable. On the face of it they don't have much leverage they have 9 years on the contract right? Just wait them out of you have to. Find a way to do some of the things you want to do without breaching your contract. Find some ways make the contract unenforceable. And I'm calling total [expletive] on the litigation excuse. There is zero PR risk that's a lame ass excuse. And financial cost? Every major law firm would slash their billables to go in there and break this impasse. That's goodwill for the firm and a huge firm would happily put a top litigation team on it. If you are the cubs and you are confident you'd prevail in litigation then break ground immediately and tell them to bring it on.
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Did anyone else hear that on the radio yesterday? They seemed like they had it under control in undercover boss.
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I can answer one of those. No, we won't get anything out of Mike Olt.