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If we're in on him as aggressively as reports indicate, I consider it a little bit of reason to be optimistic about his potential to recover. A lot of the other cases of thoracic outlet syndrome that have been mentioned were guys who were pretty old and falling off already (or were crappy to begin with). And not a whole lot of cases to go off of. Guess we'll see.

Even a semblance of that would be nice.

the really old one or the one who's missing an arm? the latter (actually more accurately i believe he is missing a rib now) http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-hot-stove-rumors-cubs-reportedly-seem-to-be-team-most-interested-in-tyson-ross/ http://chicagocubsonline.com/archives/2016/12/tyson-ross-visited-cubs-week.php I believe these came out after the PSD poster claiming to know that he is signing with the Cubs

Surprised nobody is talking about the Ross thing at all

I thought that was in game 7

must be nice to score back to back HOF QBs

Yeah, looks like that got pushed. Sucks. It's going to be awesome when it happens, though. this is going to be awesome...what a view http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/restore-wrigley/images/renderings/upper-deck-club@2x.jpg

Basically how I feel He had every right to try to leverage his position as a STH into profit and the Cubs had every right to decide it was too much and rightfully take their tickets back. A season ticket holder does not have the right to leverage their position. I seriously do not understand this mentality. You have no right resell tickets. Don't be that guy taking the use of the word "right" ultra literally. The Cubs and MLB not only allow it, they practically encourage it. It is an option on the STH website. You can batch list them easily and they even suggest where to price them based on what other listings are going for. He was allowed to do what he did and the Cubs were allowed to say it was too much and not let him do it again.

Basically how I feel He had every right to try to leverage his position as a STH into profit and the Cubs had every right to decide it was too much and rightfully take their tickets back.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOIk_XCDrrP/

i take back everything good i said about this disgusting team other than jimmy and wade. i still like them.

is this ABTY or whatever the hell? or marlin?

that espn cover is very cool but i kinda would rather someone like KB or Rizz were on there then again, the cavs have JR smith up there so who cares

There are about 41,300 seats at Wrigley Field. People were willing to pay $3,500 for crappy upper level seats to Game 1. The scarcity of tickets relative to the demand for them is what dictated those prices. I don't know what the actual number of fans who wanted to attend one of the games was. I'm guessing it was easily over a million, though. Regardless, it turns out that the evil scalpers may have provided a way for some of these fans to attend the first WS in 71 years who would otherwise be locked out. The suggestion that brokers don't make otherwise-unavailable tickets available to fans doesn't pass the laugh test. That's precisely what they do, and why people are willing to pay the high prices. Unless you think there's some sort of scalper monopoly cartel out there. Hmm.... They're not unavailable tickets, you loon; you keep talking like you're providing tickets that wouldn't be used unless you provided the generous service of selling them as a scalper. Given the huge demand for the limited supply, they are very very difficult to get. To a degree to which calling it unavailable isn't really inaccurate.

I have no idea what your reply means.

I have a question: Have you ever purchased a ticket off the secondary market before? Did you think it was a bad thing that there were tickets available for you to buy that you didn't have access to before? do you think those tix would somehow be unavailable if people like you weren't involved? Well, the barrier would become getting there first instead of just having to pay more money. If scalpers were eliminated and reselling for profit in all forms were eliminated, the tickets would still get bought up immediately in the case of any high demand games. They'd be insanely hard to get. This is obvious given what people pay scalpers/brokers. So if you don't get there first (which is going to be really hard to do...we've all tried to buy tickets before - yeah, there would be fewer scalpers in the way and more supply, but the demand is so overwhelming that it'll still be insanely hard to get them), you don't get to have them. Whether this is any more/less "fair" than "you get to have them if you pay more money on the secondary market" is debatable, I guess. Like Cubs playoff tickets would be insanely hard to get, scalpers or no scalpers. At face value they will sell out immediately. But with a secondary market, you can pay more and get to have them. This is without even getting into how unrealistic this would be when it comes to STH. If you never got to re-sell and had to use or give away every single ticket, the amount of people capable and willing to buy them would be cut drastically. EDIT - OR the Cubs could just cut out the secondary market altogether and just charge what the market dictates. Either way, the tickets aren't going to be easy to come by when the demand is what it is. One way just requires being the lucky few who are fortunate enough to buy them first, and the other one requires being fortunate enough to be able to afford what the market is willing to pay.

Care to share how much you profited off the sale of your season tickets this year? I would almost bet that the amount you made on your tickets was a much larger factor in you losing your season ticket account over selling all of your tickets. And I ask this because I could totally understand someone losing their season tickets if it gives any appearance that the sole purpose of the use of those season tickets is to make a living/ridiculous profit. I think it's great that sports teams are able to monitor/control that type of behavior, as it wasn't what season tickets was designed for. There are so many people waiting for tickets that would truly use them for what they were designed for, and they are getting hosed by those who only have the tickets because they want to expand their wallet. I would bet quite a few other people did lose their season tickets in this fashion. But I'll also bet that the Chicago Cubs are using due diligence in making sure the people they are taking away season tickets from are deserving so. Aside from the fact the Cubs got caught in allocating a bunch of tickets to the "3rd party" subsidiary a few years ago. I guess it's okay for the Cubs to profit off them while others can't. If you have season tickets you are stupid to sell them on Stubhub. Find some other broker outlet like Vivid or a local broker that you can offload to and potentially still makes some money. I don't think you guys realize how much information Stubhub shares with the MLB. Even if you buy tickets with CASH and sell them on Stubhub they still have the data from the account. I have a broker friend who attempted to buy Royals season ticket last year. They refused him as they said he had "too many sales associated with his name" on Stubhub. He knew he paid with cash so the only way for them to have that data is if Stubhub gave it to them willingly. He was furious at first and thought it had to be in violation of privacy laws, but the practice is in fact 100% legal. The big boon to MLB though is the ability to nail their dynamic pricing for games. They are able to use the sales data to figure out true market value then incorporate that into their pricing models. They've figured out they are leaving money on the table if people are willing to pay more on Stubhub. At it's core I wouldn't have a problem with this if the MLB or the Chicago Cubs really gave 2 horsefeathers about scalping. Like I pointed out earlier they've already been caught with their pants down once and we didn't hear ANY rumblings when the team sucked and people were losing money. If he was a FIRST YEAR holder and was doing it? Different story, but he's been a ticket holder for 6 years and has likely lost thousands if went to as many games as he said he did. Either scalping is bad and you are altruistic in both good and poor years, or you are okay with it. Not this it's okay when we suck but not okay when they are good BS. The reality is scalping ensures the highest profits for the MLB and all of it's teams. If a game is in high demand it will sell out regardless, with the difference being the prices will be higher on the secondary market. It's it's low demand there will always be people that speculate and those tickets will fall on the secondary market. It's that latter scenario, and the fact that the secondary market brought about Stubhub which further increases revenues with the data sharing, that guarantees maximum profit for the leagues and it's teams. Regardless the Cubs are talking about of both sides of their mouths on this. And it's total BS that any non-new account would lose their tickets after profiting in one year off of a lowly franchise. At the very least there should have been a warning. If that hadn't been heeded that's one thing, but it's still a hypocritical stance none-the-less. Earlier when? This is your first post...

jim bob cooter could be the best head coach ever and i'm not sure i could get past having a HC named that i was also incredibly shocked to find out he is younger than me

where the hell did this apology strawman come from?

[tweet]https://twitter.com/JulieDiCaro/status/809859481530224640[/tweet] i sure hope bleacher report is right about this

almost horsefeathering homered off kluber in g1 when we couldn't touch him

Maddon kind of did that though when talking about Chapman's game 6 usage. He brought up the injuries to Rondon and Strop and basically said that it was a bad part of the order and he didn't trust anybody else. That Maddon interview was a long interview, and he only acknowledged two mistakes. He didn't have a reliever up in game 6 in case the Cubs pushed the lead from 5 to even more. Then he essentially blamed David Ross for Chapman's performance in game 7. He seemed to think that Chapman's stuff was fine, but Ross just called for too many fastballs in the 8th inning. Yeah, I forgot about the Ross thing. That was so strange.