David

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOD18bdjvbO/ noooooooooooo javy noooo

lol the reviews on this trash yellon book are great https://www.amazon.com/Season-Ages-Chicago-Brought-Championship/dp/1683581156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481912051&sr=8-1&keywords=al+yellon

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it's not even about an apology. and it's not a big deal to me...just saying i'd have preferred he at least acknowledged that what he did was questionable instead of basically trying to mic drop it. i'm used to him being a reasonable and honest guy who makes good well-spoken and reasoned arguments for stuff even when i disagree with him. in this case it just irked me a bit. did you really need to bring him in with that lead? even the hendricks thing, i'm fine with. it's not like he can see the TV angles from the dugout to know that he was getting screwed by the ump. and i'm fine with bringing in lester. what happened there was a huge fluke. but the chapman stuff was so bad.

he's a smart guy. there's no way he doesn't know he made some questionable, to put it politely, calls in the heat of the moment. just admit it rather than defending the indefensible. and it was even reinforced with a negative outcome when game 7 was almost blown as a direct result.

i would just prefer he give a normal honest answer like a cool human being would is there something wrong with that? a normal honest answer is to not admit you horsefeathers up in the world series win what are you saying mistakes aren't mistakes as long as the outcome is good or what are you saying

what is the point of the manager acknowledging he screwed up in a world series win? i would just prefer he give a normal honest answer like a cool human being would is there something wrong with that?

If anything, I'm way more annoyed at Maddon refusing to even somewhat acknowledge that he fucked up and basically saying, "We won, didn't we?" when asked about it than I am at these comments.

I don't agree with how he was used either. I'm not gonna get all meatbally about him saying so. He's trash for what he did but that's not really related to these comments.

is there some never ending stash of evanston jokes i'm not aware of?

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the funny thing is i have almost zero recollection of anything da bum did outside of mf'er windermere

It's not that hitting would become scarce, it's that hitters are a more predictable, less volatile asset, which is undeniably true. So while other teams have tried to ransom young pitchers with some pedigree, or build a rotation full of guys with great stuff and injury/control risks, the Cubs have won 200 games the last 2 years and a world series with a rotation that's 40% a pre-arb reject(Arrieta) and a low-ceiling prospect(Hendricks) providing about 19 fWAR over that time. There was an observation that power numbers were dropping precipitously, and a perception that Theo was accumulating power as a market inefficiency. That trend reversed in 2015 and even more so in 2016 with the 2nd highest hr/game rate in history, second only to 2000 (1.17 vs 1.16). That's because of the Cubs dongs

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Yes, and that moment will almost surely not pass. When Theo came, there was a theory that hitting would become scarce and teams with hitters would have a trade leverage advantage. That theory does not appear to have been fulfilled. I'm not sure about that. The Cubs could trade Schwarber or Baez for a young pitcher, they just prefer not to (which I agree with). Yup. (Well, Baez depends on the pitcher - but yes, generally I agree with the philosophy)

Mine hasnt changed since an email I got on March 23; 18,902. Yeah I'm guessing they just haven't updated after the scalpers who got theirs revoked. That and maybe some old people dying is all you'll be moving up this year.

it's baseball heaven because they're all dead

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then. It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders. I want to see the imaginary posts you are replying to.

Don't agree at all. 2013-14 sucked. Those of us that had them those years did so for the payoff of having them when they were good. It was money lit on fire. This mentality is so stupid. No one who purchased season tickets lost money. You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games. If you didn't think the cost was worth it to attend 81 games of horsefeathers baseball, you didn't have to buy the tickets. But you did because you expected the Cubs to be good and you wanted to sell those tickets for a profit. You're now getting to do that and will continue to do that. Thinking you incurred losses because you knowingly bought tickets for a crap team is just dumb. Not profiting as much as you want isn't a loss. Never said it wasn't worth it. I said 2013-14 sucked. The price wasn't worth it to attend 81 games of horrifically shitty baseball, but that wasn't the only thing we were buying, as you pointed out. We also didn't buy them to profit, unless you're referring to the ability to go to a bunch of games at a reduced cost vs. the Cubs' dynamic pricing or the secondary market (by way of the ones we do sell) as the profit. Sure, then yeah. And it's much easier to do that now. EDIT - or let me put it another way...I wish we had been one of the very lucky ones who got the call after 2014 instead of after 2012, but beggars can't be choosers.

Don't agree at all. 2013-14 sucked. Those of us that had them those years did so for the payoff of having them when they were good. It was money lit on fire. When you buy season tickets you are not supposed to be making an investment for a financial return. You are buying a product. You shouldn't expect to break even or make money. If that's your expectation, I hope you lose your seats too. Yes, the product I was buying was lots of tickets to games when the Cubs got really good. And the right to buy playoff tickets those years too. Without those things and the promise thereof, I'd have had no interest in owning those 2013-14 tickets.

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I was so disgusted last night. Reminds me of the Denver game so much.

that original phasing was blown up a year or two ago. there's no real timeline (publicly) for what they're doing when anymore. doesn't look like it, though. I'm guessing they'll do the 1B side facade on the exterior (to match what they did on 3b side last year), the plaza, the bullpens/foul line seat expansions, and 1B side concourse and that's about it.

to put it another way, on a per ticket basis (and of course taking into account seat location), i don't think there is a very wide chasm among high volume sellers on stubhub between the ones making the most profit (on a percentage basis) and the ones making the least. there's gonna be some that lean aggressive and some that hold out for more, but i think if you sell 80 tickets, for the most part, you're neither making a killing or losing your ass compared to someone else doing that same thing. when we're pricing our games on an individual basis, i'd imagine we're all trying to get as much as we can. not out of greed, but to cover as much of our STH expenses as we can. it's once you start selling the vast majority of your games that you're talking about making a profit off these seats, like this guy did. i guess that's very different from the way i originally said what i said, but it's really the basis for what i was saying all along. edit - as an aside, i actually think the biggest driving force behind that (how much you can profit over face value) is the section. we mentioned the problems in the STH thread where perception drives a lot of it. terrace infield boxes and upper deck infield seem to be really undervalued on the secondary market. or like if you have bleachers i think you can expect to consistently sell enough above face to cover the fees these days.

those tucker defenses were maddening.