Can you update the standings and start the new thread before you're suspended?

"lol: Yes, I'm doing that now. Trying to see if I can pick an internet fight with Darkside at the same time.

Won't work!

Dammit!

Answer honestly

Can you go back to the Spada thread so I can keep bringing up disparaging remarks that you made about him. I thought that was fun.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

I miss us being us. Can't have any fun around here anymore.

You said you never heard anybody state what I posted in the other thread about the state of things. Tried to take the edge off my statement with an emoticon. See you in 13 days, s'all good even if I am confusing.

Your Stoopids.

Wow, Biggie. You are really enjoying this Sox in last place heading nowhere state of the team. It shows just how petty and small minded you really are.

He didn't find the petty part insulting. That's nice.

He didn't find the petty part insulting. That's nice.

It just seems there is an element of Cub nation that is basking in the White Sox failures. I believe Biggie representative of that. Personal feelings or pure feudal baseball meatballery, it wreaks of schadenfreude.

I was really disturbed by what I saw from the Ricketts kids in that Undercover Boss episode.

You mean that a guy who can't park a car or mop a floor is obscenely wealthy in a society that supposedly values "hard work" over almost everything else?

There is not much on the ownership side of things that I would say is overly impressive. The purchase took an interminable amount of time. It was overly leveraged. This resulted in dangerously low cash flow that has hurt the team over the last two years and possibly into the future.

He has been ham handed in his approach to bricks and mortar improvements that the entire world is in agreement in needing to be made. His own public calculations put him at least a year behind but it seems to me that they are at least two years (remember the public funds days last year) behind their internal schedule almost exclusively because of his management of the situation.

I don't attribute any of the changes in on field talent philosophy to Ricketts. He hired Theo to make big splash (remember that it took him a long time to fire Hendry) when everything else about the team was sagging. Theo told Ricketts the only way he would sign on is if he had unfettered control. What did Ricketts care if he granted Theo this demand? Theo's plan was going to save him money in the long run even if he was 100% wrong while giving him safety from criticism for keeping a guy like Hendry in the office.

I was really disturbed by what I saw from the Ricketts kids in that Undercover Boss episode.

In short, no, I would not take Ricketts over Reindsdorf. Change that name to Cuban and I would be on board.

I agree with the shortcomings. It has been my issue with Ricketts, that the season ticket holders paid for a 2 year class for him in owning a baseball team. Since then however, he has hired some very good people and he has done anything and everything they have asked.

We all know Cuban would have spent right away and gone the Yankee route, but I dont think Cubans temper would have worked very well with the City Council issues, that might have been a total disaster.

In the long run, I think Ricketts might end up being the best possible owner for the Cubs, not what Uncle Jerry wanted. If you think about it, Cuban would have a dome started in Rosemont by now, which Jerry would have loved! All very Ironic how it could all turn out.