The problem is, you seem to be putting a lot more blame on Theo/Hoyer than you should. The majority of the blame should be directed at the Ricketts who aren't broke. Forbes says the Cubs made 400 million in profit last season, there is no way Ricketts is broke unless he's just a horrible businessman. The rooftops situation is just an excuse for him not to spend money. I'm putting the *right* amount of blame on them, you're just not putting enough. And yeah, it turned out we weren't technically broke, we were just spending half our money on debt service and can't spend the other half because of our agreement with Zell. lt just wasn't a brilliant gambit by Epstein to divert all our old payroll to long-term investments and savings. And I really doubt Forbes said we made $400m in profit. I'm assuming that's a typo?