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  1. Connor McConnor
    Also, not sure what you mean by black box but the Wintrust sign is going on top of it. I meant the new board looks like a black box at the moment. But I'm sure they will add some flair on the sides and on the top. I thought the light trees were a good idea but maybe that would be too much. The old scoreboard is going to be ignored. Why would you bother looking at it when all the boards around it are giving you the same information in a more enhanced way? I'd be surprised if that wasn't altered in some way in the years to come. Maybe make it digital somehow? How long do you try and hold onto it? Very interesting to watch this unfold in the next few years.
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    Do they intend to put field lights on top of it like in some of the renderings? Or just a black box? Was there a final rendering that someone can point to?
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    I like it. But the old scoreboard look terribly small, dated, and out of place next to it. Like a tear down in Hinsdale (or pick the suburb of your choice).
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    Childhood hero. I shook hands with him once at Zum Deutschen Eck. Ernie had an incredible grip. It was like shaking hands with a vice. A very nice vice though.
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    Castro looks about 50 years old in the picture with that article (below). Looks like a beer vendor. http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82401970/
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    Moot point. It's too late. Ricketts invested in a Tulip farm. He might have been able to revive some interest in the team by building a modern stadium somewhere….but battling to save that dump was a colossal blunder. I don't know all the details (cause I don't care anymore….like millions of other people) but if he still has the option to move….it's his only hope.
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    You must be assuming that each player actually reads them. We are talking about 162 games here. You think they spend their time reading stats between games? Some maybe once in awhile....but daily packets of stats don't mean much. These stats are always available to these guys in todays world. They have to perform on the field.
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    Looks great. Interesting to see how the screen looks in action. Looks pretty small from the booth angle.
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    Cant see the pic......is it a joke or for real?
  10. Connor McConnor
    Anyone close by have any updated pics on the new Right Field patio?
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    Keith Moreland = Ricky Bobby. I can't warm up to the guy. I know the team is lousy and it's his first year but I don't like listening to him. So I dont.
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    That is another interesting point. I wonder where baseball will be in 20 years. I have two teenage boys. They grew up with me being a pretty rabid Cub fan. They could care less about baseball. The both play ice hockey...so they like sports. But baseball does nothing for them. Baseball is really a hard sell to kids. They have so many diversions and cool things to do. Sitting still and watching a baseball game is not on the list. I know that there are some kids that are into it....I'm not saying its in a death spiral. But alot of the fans these days are older people who grew up with it in a different time. I hear/read that baseball has never been stronger and all that. I just don't see who is going to replace the fans of today over the next 20-30 years. I guess we shall see.
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    They've kept making stupid mistakes for a long time now. And yet the franchise isn't in serious trouble. Obviously that would depend on how you define "serious trouble." They are gradually shedding fans. They have a large payroll. 10 games back on Memorial Day will be a problem in terms of attendance. It will get worse if they keep losing. It's not my money.....so it does not really matter to me. But a half filled Wrigley Field looks to be a sure thing. Now if it were my money....I would define that as "serious trouble." The team finds itself in a new place. No real stars on the field that anyone really cares about. A bland unknown coach. The broadcast booth has become generic (for lack of a better word). And I think the allure of Wrigley is even on the wane. The real problem is on the field. No one on the field makes you want to tune in. Not good.
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    The franchise is in serious trouble. Not just becasue the team is lousy.....it's been that way more often than not anyway....the problem is that no one cares anymore. The whole Cubs thing has gotten stale and uninteresting. The 2003 debacle was crushing. And the fun of being a Cubs fan has slowly deflated ever since. It is one thing to make the fan base angry.....it is another to bore them to death to the point of not caring. Hard to do to the Cubs fanbase.....but somehow it has happened. Not that it matters a whole lot......but I use to listen on the radio quite a bit. Moreland is a colossal bore. Yep......real trouble brewing here.
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    Why is it that when a pitcher stinks.....he's hurt? How about he just blows at the moment?
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    The really sad thing is that he did not get to see the Cubs get to a World Series..... like many others before him....and all the rest of us. I'm pretty sure that 2003 took a few years off most of our lives. Sigh....summer nights on a drive home with Pat and Ron.......now another memory. Sad day indeed.
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    40,000.00 posts would seem to indicate otherwise.
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    "Loves Chicago." I doubt it. I'm sure it's been as painful for the players as it has been for the fans the last few years (well the last 100 years....but we are just talking about Ramirez). If he gets the chance to go to a bona-fide winner for big money....he will be gone. He had a chance to do just that when he exercised his opt-out clause after the horrendous 2006 season. He re-signed with the Cubs a month later without really testing the market. If he was going to bolt for greener pastures, the time to do it would have been after a 66-96 season, when he was still on the right side of 30. Maybe. But he's witnessed some brutal Cubs karma since then....while proving to the rest of the league that he really is a force. I just wouldnt be surprised to see him go. Hope he stays though.
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    "Loves Chicago." I doubt it. I'm sure it's been as painful for the players as it has been for the fans the last few years (well the last 100 years....but we are just talking about Ramirez). If he gets the chance to go to a bona-fide winner for big money....he will be gone.
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    The fans already booed him every step he took. The status quo was unacceptable. They couldn't just have Milton repeatedly insulting the organization and the fans, refusing to play and fighting with personel. Why couldn't they? You're basically saying that personal feelings and what the fans think are valid reasons for making a decision. When you're making big decisions based on fans and feelings, you're failing at your job. Can somebody find that quote from Hendry years ago about this very situation? It was something like "the day I let the fans dictate what decision I make is the day I am no longer doing my job." Well, that's exactly what he's doing. This season was already lost. Bradley can do or say whatever he wants the rest of the season, it's hurting NOTHING. You know what DOES hurt? Suspending a guy and diminishing what little value he had left. From a business perspective, there was absolutely no advantage of suspending him. NONE. He did it for personal feelings and to please the fans. That's really awful. I agree with this....except there may be something that happened which we do not know about.
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    Bradley tried to at the beginning of the year, and the Cubs made him. I still don't really know why. Taming of the Shrew/My Fair Lady syndrom. Hendry wantd to prove to the world that under his proper guidenceBradley could not only be productive for an entire season, but he could make a proper englishman out of him. I think his English has gotten better.
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    That would take all the fun out of running him out of town though. He "has to go." All the talk-radio people and sports columnists have already said so. It has to be.
  23. Connor McConnor
    Z goes berzerk in the heat of the moment of trying to win a game. Bradley carries around a ton of baggage day in day out, criticizes the organization and paying customers and takes any generic question about play on the field into some existential BS about hatred and negativity. I don't think anybody gave a crap about Bradley going off on that ump for the bad called strike 3 early in the year. It was all the other BS. Z also performs well year in and year out (and despite everybody calling him out this year, he's still been pretty good) whereas Milton Bradley has been Ryan Theriot with slightly more pop this season. I dont think anything Bradley has done/said justifys the public witchburning we have just witnessed......but ok. I find Zambrano much more irritating and equally as underwhelming in the "performance-to pay department." Obviouslly I am in the minority. Cant wait to see that rascal Zambrano throw balls into the outfield and punch players in the face in the dugout next year......that (not so little) rascal. At least he admits he's "out of shape" and hits a home run once in a while.
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    Z's behavior much worse than Bradley's. But he is ok and given "another chance." Why?
  25. Connor McConnor
    Other than being a moody shmuck......what was it that turned him into the anti-christ?
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