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It would be fitting for the Yankees to be dating Britney Spears. They could do a lot better but overpay for somebody well past her prime.

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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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JORR is hard on the Cubs, but I truly think he likes the Sox more than he hates the Cubs, which is more than I can say for other posters here.


I don't really hate the Cubs at all. But I can understand the Sox fan that does. Imagine if you were dating Brittney Spears and your buddy was dating Kathy Bates but most of the world seemed to believe your buddy had the hotter girlfriend.
The "Sox fans hate the Cubs more than they like the Sox" thing is just jealousy that White Sox fans have seen the team win the World Series and Cubs fans have yet to do so. It's the only possible explanation why anyone would think that.

Anyone who honestly thinks that any Sox fan would rather see the Cubs lose the World Series than the White Sox win it is quite frankly an idiot.

I would invite you to any bar on Western Ave and several Sox fans would admit to hating the Cubs more than they like the Sox. They would own it proudly.

In fact, one of the bars on 111th, gives out free drinks when the Cubs give up a homerun. He doesnt do it when the Sox hit one.


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$1 spent on revenue producing assets of a longer-term nature might be a better investment for the organization given the current status of the on-field product.


I'm certain you're correct there, but I don't really think a fan should be concerned about the generational wealth of owners who have likely already established trust fund for children not yet born. It's not really something to lead cheers for.


I care if it means they can spend more money on a team reaching development in 3-5 years than it appears that they can today.

I want the owner of my team to have more fucking generational wealth than the Roman Empire.

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rogers park bryan wrote:
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JORR is hard on the Cubs, but I truly think he likes the Sox more than he hates the Cubs, which is more than I can say for other posters here.


I don't really hate the Cubs at all. But I can understand the Sox fan that does. Imagine if you were dating Brittney Spears and your buddy was dating Kathy Bates but most of the world seemed to believe your buddy had the hotter girlfriend.

Awful comparison. This is what im talking about with Sox fans thinking they're better than they are.


In this analogy, the Yankees date Brittany Spears and the White Sox get Bonnie Hunt....at BEST


You just think more of Brittney Spears than I do. :lol: I'd give the Yankees Johansson, or maybe Paula Patton.

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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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I'm certain you're correct there, but I don't really think a fan should be concerned about the generational wealth of owners who have likely already established trust fund for children not yet born. It's not really something to lead cheers for.



If the team is making money to provide trust funds for unborn children then the chances are the on-field product is quite good. They aren't mutually exclusive. Many thought they were, but the decreased Wrigley attendance this year proves it's not the case.

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It's not really a choice if you have to keep expenses down to meet debt service covenants with your financing institutions so you don't go into violation.
I meant it was their choice to buy the team.

The family isn't bankrupt though. This isn't like the Mets. If the Cubs weren't the most profitable team in baseball they'd cover that easily.

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Renovations to a crumbling facility aren't much of a choice either. I don't know the specifics of how they are building/financing the hotel but $1 spent on revenue producing assets of a longer-term nature might be a better investment for the organization given the current status of the on-field product. My issue is that they apparently aren't funded enough to do both.
Once again, what you describe here is still a choice to extract profit. They are just investing it differently.

I understand it is the right business decision. It also would be the right business decision in 2016, and 2020, and as long as you are still making a profit. The Cubs are proving you can make a lot of money even without a full stadium.

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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
I want the owner of my team to have more fucking generational wealth than the Roman Empire.



Congratulations! He does. His daddy just won't let him spend any of it.

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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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rogers park bryan wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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JORR is hard on the Cubs, but I truly think he likes the Sox more than he hates the Cubs, which is more than I can say for other posters here.


I don't really hate the Cubs at all. But I can understand the Sox fan that does. Imagine if you were dating Brittney Spears and your buddy was dating Kathy Bates but most of the world seemed to believe your buddy had the hotter girlfriend.
The "Sox fans hate the Cubs more than they like the Sox" thing is just jealousy that White Sox fans have seen the team win the World Series and Cubs fans have yet to do so. It's the only possible explanation why anyone would think that.

Anyone who honestly thinks that any Sox fan would rather see the Cubs lose the World Series than the White Sox win it is quite frankly an idiot.

I would invite you to any bar on Western Ave and several Sox fans would admit to hating the Cubs more than they like the Sox. They would own it proudly.

In fact, one of the bars on 111th, gives out free drinks when the Cubs give up a homerun. He doesnt do it when the Sox hit one.


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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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JORR is hard on the Cubs, but I truly think he likes the Sox more than he hates the Cubs, which is more than I can say for other posters here.


I don't really hate the Cubs at all. But I can understand the Sox fan that does. Imagine if you were dating Brittney Spears and your buddy was dating Kathy Bates but most of the world seemed to believe your buddy had the hotter girlfriend.

Awful comparison. This is what im talking about with Sox fans thinking they're better than they are.


In this analogy, the Yankees date Brittany Spears and the White Sox get Bonnie Hunt....at BEST


You just think more of Brittney Spears than I do. :lol: I'd give the Yankees Johansson, or maybe Paula Patton.

Well I thought you were just going back a few years and using Spears as the standard


Anyway, we disagree on where The White Sox are in the history of teams.


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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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I would invite you to any bar on Western Ave and several Sox fans would admit to hating the Cubs more than they like the Sox. They would own it proudly.
Drunken bar talk is not reality. They'd still rather see the Sox win the World Series.
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In fact, one of the bars on 111th, gives out free drinks when the Cubs give up a homerun. He doesnt do it when the Sox hit one.
That is funny.

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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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I want the owner of my team to have more fucking generational wealth than the Roman Empire.



Congratulations! He does. His daddy just won't let him spend any of it.


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 Post subject: Re: Breaking Bad
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I would invite you to any bar on Western Ave and several Sox fans would admit to hating the Cubs more than they like the Sox. They would own it proudly.
Drunken bar talk is not reality. They'd still rather see the Sox win the World Series.
Yeah, Ill concede that. I dont think it's more hating the cubs but I think its equal. (Excepting the World Series)

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In fact, one of the bars on 111th, gives out free drinks when the Cubs give up a homerun. He doesnt do it when the Sox hit one.
That is funny.

It IS funny and Ill take the free drink but it's representative of a good portion of Sox fans


I dont know why this is argued so vehemently. Its not like Sox fans deny it. There are many, many Sox fans that are proud of the Cub hate and will admit its a big part of being a Sox fan to them.


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Anyway, we disagree on where The White Sox are in the history of teams.


They're less than the Yankees, A's, and Red Sox. About equivalent with Cleveland and Detroit.

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You can do the accounting to fit however you want but the Ricketts are likely going to get the $32 million in artificially low payroll back and then some with how they are using it.


The $32 million is from operations. It proves baseball operations successfully generates income. But the $32 million does not include expenditures from the debt financing. If the capital expenditures are anywhere close to the $32 million(likely), then they are cash poor(also likely). Us numbers crunching nerds call this the free cash flow of the business.

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Anyway, we disagree on where The White Sox are in the history of teams.


They're less than the Yankees, A's, and Red Sox. About equivalent with Cleveland and Detroit.

Were closer than I thought.

Although, Id think the Tigers would be significantly ahead of Cleveland


I dont know if you're just going AL, but you left out the Cards


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It's not really a choice if you have to keep expenses down to meet debt service covenants with your financing institutions so you don't go into violation.
I meant it was their choice to buy the team.

The family isn't bankrupt though. This isn't like the Mets. If the Cubs weren't the most profitable team in baseball they'd cover that easily.



They have a lot of debt on this team. No doubt their family has a personal guarantee on the debt. But, they still, as an organization, have to meet negotiated cash-flow requirements. It certainly is possible to not be meeting them, even making a decent profit - especially if they are based on full attendance figures. Without that revenue, they need to cut costs and they are doing it at the major-league level.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. They should be spending more money on free agents? It seems painfully obvious that they don't have a lot of money left to pour into this organization.

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It IS funny and Ill take the free drink but it's representative of a good portion of Sox fans
No its not.

There are fans who hate on the Cubs no doubt, but that is not an accurate picture of a "good portion of Sox fans" as you claim.

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It IS funny and Ill take the free drink but it's representative of a good portion of Sox fans
You know nothing of real rivalries then. You can mock a rival incessently while still wanting your team to win. See OSU/Michigan, Yankees/Red Sox, Packers/Bears.
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I dont know why this is argued so vehemently. Its not like Sox fans deny it. There are many, many Sox fans that are proud of the Cub hate and will admit its a big part of being a Sox fan to them.
Of course there are fans that hate the Cubs. There are fans who hate the Yankees, or the Cowboys, or the Cardinals, or pretty much any popular team.

What is dumb is the thought that any significant portion of Sox fans would rather see the Cubs lose than the Sox win.

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rogers park bryan wrote:
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Anyway, we disagree on where The White Sox are in the history of teams.


They're less than the Yankees, A's, and Red Sox. About equivalent with Cleveland and Detroit.

Were closer than I thought.

Although, Id think the Tigers would be significantly ahead of Cleveland


I dont know if you're just going AL, but you left out the Cards


I was just going AL. All three of those have similar records. If I have to get down to it, I'd say Detroit, White Sox, Indians in that order. But they're close. Outside of the Yankees and St. Louis, five championships is pretty good.

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4 pages in and now I will make a comment: I'm starting to see others jumping ahead of the women and children to get on the lifeboats. THIS IS THE FUCKING TITANIC. What will be Theo's excuse next year when they lose 98 games? I want a rebuild but you just can't be throwing aaa clowns on the field and saying "well,tough shit". Like I said before the 2012 season,it's not going to hurt them to get some proven ML hitters on the payroll that might win you maybe an extra 15-23 games and get you in the WC game. Who's to say that 5th spot in 2014 isn't won by a team with 82 victories? Once you get in,it's a crap shoot.

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4 pages in and now I will make a comment: I'm starting to see others jumping ahead of the women and children to get on the lifeboats. THIS IS THE FUCKING TITANIC. What will be Theo's excuse next year when they lose 98 games? I want a rebuild but you just can't be throwing aaa clowns on the field and saying "well,tough shit". Like I said before the 2012 season,it's not going to hurt them to get some proven ML hitters on the payroll that might win you maybe an extra 15-23 games and get you in the WC game. Who's to say that 5th spot in 2014 isn't won by a team with 82 victories? Once you get in,it's a crap shoot.


I do think Epstein is smart enough to know his honeymoon would only last so long. That's why he tried to get Sanchez and then settled on Jackson. It doesn't look great now, and maybe it won't, but I do understand the move. He figured the price of pitching wasn't going anywhere but up and he needed a guy to eat some innings as they transitioned to the younger guys. Sanchez and Jackson were both obviously capable of that and they each had enough stuff that it could turn out to be a big bonus if they put things together. Sanchez did this year and Jackson hasn't, but maybe it will go the other way next season.

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They have a lot of debt on this team. No doubt their family has a personal guarantee on the debt. But, they still, as an organization, have to meet negotiated cash-flow requirements. It certainly is possible to not be meeting them, even making a decent profit - especially if they are based on full attendance figures. Without that revenue, they need to cut costs and they are doing it at the major-league level.

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I'm not sure what you are trying to say. They should be spending more money on free agents? It seems painfully obvious that they don't have a lot of money left to pour into this organization.
They have enough money to build a hotel though and fire and hire managers. If money is really that much of an issue I doubt they'd be doing that. Instead, it seems fairly obvious they are taking profit this year and investing it in things that will make them huge returns.

I'm not saying it is wrong but I'm just pointing out the Cubs are choosing to be noncompetitive while the owners make a good amount of money. They are just converting it into equity by paying down debt they chose to take.

I wasn't even saying it was wrong. I just think it is something that gets lost in a lot of this. The Ricketts are using the goodwill provided by Theo to make tons of money. They are helping finance the purchase of the Cubs on the backs of noncompetitive teams.

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Can you please explain for those of us who don't know, how we can tell when *insert just about every major league sport franchise executive here* is lying and when he is telling the truth?


Fixed. And I never said it was Theo's honest public stance; I said it was my belief, and if there was anyone out there that thought Sveum was going to be this miracle worker to lead the Cubs to the 2014 WS Champeenship, I would like anyone to send me the quote.

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I never thought for a second when they hired Sveum that he was their long-term guy


Can you please explain for those of us who don't know, how we can tell when *insert just about every major league sport franchise executive here* is lying and when he is telling the truth?


Fixed. And I never said it was Theo's honest public stance; I said it was my belief, and if there was anyone out there that thought Sveum was going to be this miracle worker to lead the Cubs to the 2014 WS Champeenship, I would like anyone to send me the quote.


I understand that. I'm asking why your belief is different than what Theo says sometimes but in line with it at other times. Do you ever consider the possibility that you are engaging in wishful thinking? And if he wanted a two year guy, why sign him to a three year deal? I highly doubt he was sharing Ricketts' money with a good friend. That's how guys get fired themselves.

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Like I said before the 2012 season,it's not going to hurt them to get some proven ML hitters on the payroll that might win you maybe an extra 15-23 games and get you in the WC game. Who's to say that 5th spot in 2014 isn't won by a team with 82 victories?


It's that easy? Why is this the first Pirates winning season since 1992? And who are the hitters they can afford to sign who want to come here?

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Then we are saying the same thing. Agree to agree.
Well, yeah.

It was brought up because someone asked if Sox fans would be mad if they were bad next year and they'd want to give up on the plan. Northside_Dan seemed to disagree with the premise that the Cubs are setting payroll artificially low to extract profit(can be spun they are paying down debt but it's the same thing).

You then agreed with me and we both are happy.

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I didn't disagree. Just wanted to know their total income based on what you posted and that I speculated that they are choosing to reinvest that money in Wrigley and non MLB player's. Which I'm perfectly fine with.

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