SouthSideRyan
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You have no [expletive] clue how blind bids work do you -
I can't see why not having their best backcourt defender would be a hindrance when facing LBJ and Wade
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Gleeman was wrong. Olney reported the Cubs were the 2nd highest bidder. http://chicago.sbnation.com/chicago-cubs/2012/7/4/3137514/cubs-finished-second-yu-darvish-posting-fee
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HOW IN THE [expletive] DO YOU USE THE BRAVES AS AN EXAMPLE WHEN THEY TRADED WITH US IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEMPSTER REJECTED THE TRADE HOLY [expletive] [expletive]
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Are we going to do that thing again where everyone makes hilarious jokes about the Celtics all year like the NBA regular season matters and then they go farther than the Bulls in the playoffs? Because, I mean, it was funny last year, but I feel like it's pretty well-tread ground.
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Funk and King are technically difficult to listen to.
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I likey.
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That's all I've been saying
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Why do the first 3-4 seasons not count in this evaluation?
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Umm, no. Let's not do that. Yes, lets. You win as many games as you can, and put yourself in position to win as much as possible. You can't control the rest. Except for when you lose as many games as you can. Worked for the Rays. And all it took was 10 years of 90+ losses!
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Umm, no. Let's not do that. Yes, lets. You win as many games as you can, and put yourself in position to win as much as possible. You can't control the rest. Except for when you lose as many games as you can.
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Of course it's possible that the Reds don't stop trying for 3 years after their old guys get old. Well awesome. We can worry about beating an 80 win Reds team too then. They're not a major market team, nor do they have tons of help coming. The Reds might have a higher payroll than us next season.
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Who is the last 26-27 year old to hit FA?
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If we continue our trend of leaving half our best players in Iowa, that might actually be a good thing? In spring training Dang, never mind. That is a worst-case scenario, then. Isn't half of our "core" in A ball?
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Of course it's possible that the Reds don't stop trying for 3 years after their old guys get old.
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Does the McDonald's purchase come out of baseball ops? What if we're able to buy a few of the rooftop properties? What if some of the parking lots around the stadium become available?
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Both paying off debt and renovating Wrigley will be more than recouped when the team is sold. A renovated Wrigley is worth more to Ricketts than a bulldozed Wrigely. It should not affect the big league payroll. The debt to be paid off will allow the sale price down the road to be pure profit. You don't get to strip the actual team on the field of any value so you can make pure profit on the franchise valuation (while improving it with a newly renovated park)and not expect people to be pissed off about it.
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I think they make a lot more than they say they do.
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There's no reason we can't be in Red Sox territory with a new TV contract. There's not much reason we can't be now.
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Sure, that's true, but he hasn't been able to make any real money. All the money they are making has either gone towards paying off the debt, building their baseball academy, or the renovations. They are putting it all back into the team, and since they have a lot of other things they are dealing with it means less goes towards the major league payroll. They better plan on building a dome and a solid gold statue of Ken Hubbs if the payroll in 2019 is going to be 145M
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Or he was just trying to make the point that the team on the field wasn't really reflective of what the payroll number was. The transcript misinterpreted what they were saying. The artificially high comment was in regards to the payroll in 2008ish (140 million+) was artificially and unsustainably high. I had a one on one with Ricketts myself and he said the same thing, there isn't much to debate about it. The team isn't going to have a payroll high than the 125-130 range WHILE they are competing until they get the TV deal and even then with the TV deal it wouldn't get much higher than 145. That's the plan so we should just get used to it. Then Ricketts is robbing the team blind McCourt style. Has to do with the debt and renovations, he isn't making much money at this point. He's probably made ~500M on franchise value alone.
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Or he was just trying to make the point that the team on the field wasn't really reflective of what the payroll number was. The transcript misinterpreted what they were saying. The artificially high comment was in regards to the payroll in 2008ish (140 million+) was artificially and unsustainably high. I had a one on one with Ricketts myself and he said the same thing, there isn't much to debate about it. The team isn't going to have a payroll high than the 125-130 range WHILE they are competing until they get the TV deal and even then with the TV deal it wouldn't get much higher than 145. That's the plan so we should just get used to it. Then Ricketts is robbing the team blind McCourt style.
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Also bad news.
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I'd be overjoyed with a 125M payroll this year. It'd mean we were actually trying.
