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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    For the interest of this discussion the theoretical increase in value really doesn't matter. It is kind of a tangent. Slashing MLB payroll to pay for capital improvements is a bush-league move, regardless of the valuation of the franchise. And it's far from clear that capital improvements make up for all the money that's gone missing from baseball spending.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fair point. I should have said "Your presence here is nothing more than internet bullying." I have no idea what he is outside of here. seanimal, I apologize for calling you an internet bully. While I do think your time here could be spent more productively than just attacking people, it isn't right for me to name-call like that.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    OK, so it is about $100m (they only own 95%, so their share would be worth $950m by Forbes' estimate).
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, there's also some stuff about my value to the world as a human being, but that's probably a bit off-topic and not really his business.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    In the past, there have been some connection problems early in the season (mostly Opening Day), iirc?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dodge what? "You post a lot, and you annoy me!" is the complaint, as far as I can tell. I do post a lot, and I'm assuming he's not lying about me annoying him. So, points conceded?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's an awful lot of words that are trying to say "I'm not a dumb bully, I'm really cool!" Don't worry. I believe you are cool. You are not only cooler than me, but actually cool.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    You got your ass handed to you. Lol what "Here's a bunch of things the Cubs spent money on that you didn't think about!" "Yes, I did, and I know more about them than you apparently do." Handed.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I thought you just said it was $100M like a page ago? I was thinking he paid $900m off the top of my head, but the link says $700m.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even if that's what they were doing, slashing payroll to pay for a bunch of infrastructure improvements is a bush-league way to run a sports team. Your team is worth $300 million more than it was when you bought it three years ago, take out a damn loan for the capital investments.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    What conclusion can we draw from that? Take your pick. Either Ricketts was lying when he said the baseball operations budget was the same from 2011 to 2012, or they simply passed on spending a lot of money they could have spent.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. EBITDA is not and is not intended to be a measure of actual profitability or of available cash resources. The idea behind it is to demonstrate the intrinsic profitability of the core business on a level that makes business to business comparisons more appropriate. What this really means is that Cubs are a fundamentally profitable institution, which we pretty much already knew. But when a lot of capital investment is necessary -- for example, building a new spring training facility, a new facility in the Dominican, building a modern information infrastructure and renovating a 100 year old stadium -- EBITDA is not going to be a very meaningful metric because there's so much spending going on that isn't included. I'm not sure you know what I'm talking about either. I wasn't talking about the operating profit. Simply the fact that we have extremely high revenues but payroll keeps shrinking. Player expenditures (including amateurs) went down by $25 million. The spring facility is being paid for by a land sale by the city of Mesa, the Dominican facility cost $8m, the information infrastructure is a drop in the bucket for an operation of this size, and we haven't paid for any renovations yet.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/visa-issue-delays-cubs-juan-carlos-paniagua/ That mystery finally explained, though this was the likely culprit all along.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Baker(obviously a huge if) can come back and show he's healthy, he could conceivably replace Garza, if we deal him, or figure he's never going to be healthy. If not, you've got question marks all over the place. The best FA will be Hughes, Johnson, Hammel, Halladay, and Haren. Overseas, we may see Takada get posted and we likely will see Suk Min Yoon come over from Korea. That said, maybe we'll have Appel, who could become a Garza for us as soon as 2015. Or trade for Price, which would be ideal. So there's like *maybe* half-a-dozen useful starting pitchers we can list, and some of them are decript and their shoulders or elbows are about to explode inside their arms. And there's still plenty of time for contract extensions. It's amazing that we could sign Jackson, develop Samardzija, trade for Wood and our medium-term rotation outlook still needs a ton of work.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I continue to be torn between the fact that I really don't want to extend an injury-prone pitcher like Garza, and knowing that if we don't we have absolutely nothing to replace him and there is absolutely nothing on the FA market.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    If they are quibbling on that level of detail, a deal is getting done.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Ricketts have already made $100m in increased valuation just since buying the team, right?
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The numbers aren't even real, so it doesn't take any crazy mental gymnastics to disregard them. *shrug* They line up with everything we know outside of "Ricketts promised he wouldn't"
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    You can see the cognitive dissonance eating at Brett. He wants so badly to believe in Ricketts, but he knows the numbers don't add up.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    You live in a weird timezone.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs No. 3 in valuation, No. 4 in reveune http://www.forbes.com/mlb-valuations/list/
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    But you're allowed to get excited about things that haven't happened yet? Premature Wincalculation is a recognized medical condition. Doom boners are not. You sound just like the jerks as the Social Security Disability office.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    FWIW, those Davenport projections have the Astros winning 73 games... so.... bahahaha... yea. *Stares wearily at season ticket box* It's an investment, it's an investment, it's an investment.... They'll give you first pick of your PSL at New Wrigley in Rosemont.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    BA organizational rankings http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2013-organizational-talent-rankings-list/ 1. Cardinals 7. Pirates 12. Cubs 15. Reds 23. Brewers
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, MLB would certainly just dock teams draft picks instead of signing restrictions if they switched to a draft. The league doesn't strike me as the type to just say "lol, you got me with that loophole" and let it go.
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