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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Top of my head is that even true for anyone but the dodgers(who of course has yet to have their contract take effect)?
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Safe phrase to abide by. "Question Everything." and always wear pants, remember that one, too Mojo agrees
  3. SouthSideRyan
    But you'd probably make like 500m a year on advertising and you'd pack em in at tom rickettscorn in Batavia
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I believe the argument was something about an official mlb investigation vs disputing a drug test? It was [expletive] clearly because nobody cares about melky Cabrera but they do about arod
  5. SouthSideRyan
    what is an absolute disaster? losing 90-100 games every year with dwindling attendance and a bottom-10 payroll and no ability to improve your own ballpark with your own money tells me we already have an absolute disaster. i know that it's not particularly likely the cubs move out of their current location any time soon, but things are pretty terrible at wrigley right now. everything should be on the table. Tom ricketts has no money, so the solution is for the cubs to spend 800 million On a new ballpark in a shitty location Wrigley is not what's making the cubs so painfully bad
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Check out the bloomberg link i posted up thread, these revenue streams aren't there for any other team to dwarf us and were certainly not getting them in rosemont or Naperville or anywhere else that nobody has any desire to set foot in let alone spend a night. And the city of chicago will give us nothing, the state of illinois will give us nothing. How much money do you think these suburbs have to pay a billionaire to move the cubs out there. All that's been blustered by these places desperate for attention was some land in rosemont
  7. SouthSideRyan
    My guess it it was a short-sighted cash grab
  8. SouthSideRyan
    viewtopic.php?f=29&t=60908&p=3000851&hilit=Bloomberg#p3000851 Even discounting the enormous expenditure required to build a new stadium, it's unlikely a new stadium would even bring in higher revenues than Wrigley. Nobody wants to go out to team owned bars and stay in team owned hotels when they're located in [expletive] rosemont, il.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah I should've been clearer, I see no need to extend shark this offseason
  10. SouthSideRyan
    PR cost? Who is on the side of the rooftops?? Or are they concerned a lawsuit would force them to open their books to support their claims of money lost, becUse yeah, I'm guessing that could get really ugly for them
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Due to tiebreakers the brewers did not have a protected pick so they may have been garza or nothing
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Huge slam on LA and SD out of nowhere
  13. SouthSideRyan
    I would've signed Garza to that deal in a second. He could miss a season and be worth the contract
  14. SouthSideRyan
    But again, they aren't punishing him for positive tests. They're punishing him for lying to them and obstructing the investigation I am drawing a blank on the player who tested positive, and set up a fake website to represent the "company." To try to get away with it. Didn't he get an extended suspension? That was Melky Cabrera, right? Yes and I believe he only got 50 games Correct, and he was tied to biogenesis but they didn't even suspend him for it because he already served 50 games. The union is being incredibly shortsighted on this because they don't like arod personally. They're allowing the commissioner the unilateral right to suspend a player(who happens to be one of the most well paid in the game) an exorbitant amount on a whim.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    The intense vetting process basically consists of is this guy going to spend a lot of money on payroll? No? Approved.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    It's sad what just a return to our 2007 payroll level could do for next offseason, and it's sadder that I'm not confident it will get there. WHERE'S MY [expletive] TV DEAL TY So we can start renovating the stadium or something
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Which is wiped out by arb raises. BR has an estimated 70.5M committed for 2015, though this would include Shark's Arb 3 estimate. So with 25M to play with, SP and OF being the only overwhelming needs, and the pathetic rumored returns for Samardzija, yes, I'd extend Shark
  18. SouthSideRyan
    So take one of the few sure things on our roster (a reliable starting pitcher) and turn him into another risk and convince the top available free agent to sign with a 65 win team for 80% of what everyone else is offering So how do you two propose we improve our rotation? It's a difficult question, are we going to continue forward carrying an 80M payroll, or are we going to act like a real team? If we're acting like a real team, than my first way to improve our rotation would be to not trade away the best pitcher in it.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    So take one of the few sure things on our roster (a reliable starting pitcher) and turn him into another risk
  20. SouthSideRyan
    YOU'RE NOT HELPING
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Because Mooney is one of the few Chicago media guys that isn't a clueless buffoon. If that is true, then we were not serious about getting him.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Which Selig pulled out of his ass. the punishment or the allegation? The punishment
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Which Selig pulled out of his ass.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    To get paid to do nothing. When the arbitrator ruled, his career was effctively over. I don't think ARod wants to embarrass himself on the diamond. Who said he'd embarrass himself? If anybody wants A-Rod off the diamond it's the Yankees, not A-Rod. Baseball is his life, he's not walking away no matter how badly the Yankees want him to He's not going to be welcome in any clubhouse, and if he persists, he'll be beaned with regularity. And frankly, he's not that great anymore anyway. Not nearly good enough to be worth the headache. Which is why the Yankees will pay him his full contract to go away. Foolishly I might add if he's going to be thrown at in every AB. OBP machine, and consistently getting the opposing team's players suspended
  25. SouthSideRyan
    I have a hard time buying most of those guys anywhere in a top 10. It's a big mess from 14 on for me.
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