Bucky Chris wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
The con is in the idea that the restaurant has to feed you food that will get you sick for four years so one day they can serve you a gourmet dinner. I just don't believe that. And I'm not suggesting what the Cubs are doing isn't the smartest thing for Joe Ricketts' pocketbook. But my interests aren't his. And neither are yours.
Frankly, I don't care what the Cubs do. My issue is when I have to hear and read that this way is "the right way". And that the team that I buy tickets to watch every year should do something similar. It may be the right way for the Cubs. They have a lot of fans that come each summer to enjoy a truly old ballpark and the actually quality of baseball is immaterial to them. That's a luxury few teams have and it's allowing Wrigley not to look like the ballpark in Miami with all those empty seats or the one eight miles south that is likely to be nearly empty the rest of the way out.
Incidentally, I heard this on the Score's Business Report yesterday and I found it somewhat odd. The Sox have sold more team license plates than the Cubs. I don't take that as evidence of anything really, but it's always been a foregone conclusion that the Cubs "have more fans than the Sox". I'm not sure that's true. They have more people that go to games.*
* Before redskingreg chimes in: Fans go to games, but one needn't be a fan to attend. Lots of people come to Addison and Clark to see that building. Just yesterday morning I saw three guys photographing it.
Don't buy tickets. No one is making people keep or buy tickets. To be honest, after years on the waiting list, I finally came due to get season tickets the year Theo started. I passed, because I didn't think it would be worth it. And I like Theo.
You need to keep your argument to "it's the wrong method if they want to win." No one can dispute that. But you're trying to take it further, and I'm losing you.
I don't know if it's the "wrong method if they want to win". They may win and they may not. Just like the Sox won doing what they did in 2005 and they lost in 2007 doing the same thing and they had respectable teams in other years.
But that "don't buy tickets" thing doesn't fly. That's what makes the mare go. You want
someone else to buy tickets. And don't say you don't, because if no one else did the Cubs cease to exist.
Of course I do. I don't know what that implies though.
I'm confused as to what you're arguing now.
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