because the truth of the situation, despite all the reports over the past five years, is that they simply do not have the money today

They bought the team at what was reported to be an uncomfortable (by MLB overseers) cash to loan ratio. Since then they invested a reported $500 million (in actuality it was probably more) into infrastructure improvements. They have purchased property around the park that were reportedly money losers for the owners. They also decided to get into the hotel business.

The Cubs are sitting on a very big nut to cover each month.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah the cable money like the Dodgers is not going to be there (predicted by me) and will affect how they pay off the stadium renovations. All leading to smaller (bit not minuscule) payroll than fans expected. Many revenue streams are slowing to trickles.

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Elections have consequences.

Later gator.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Cubs fans abandoning the team quickly now. Get off the sinking ship. Be on the right side of history.

https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/2019 ... icago-cubs

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

They still have an historically high payroll. The appraised value of the team has doubled. They just don't have the waves and waves of dollars business majors like Levine, Witenmeyer and Phil Rogers would have had you believe.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I've heard many cry about this on FB....they're not going anywhere. Cubs will be fine. The only thing they really need to cry about is the contracts of Darvish and Chatwood.

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I wonder why no one is putting their name to an article about not giving a shit who broadcasts the Cubs games. I mean , odds are that there has to be some columnist in this town that feels like that right ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

A racist no doubt.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

The Cubs fanbase is a relatively new phenomenon (1984+) whereas the Dodgers have drawn ever since they moved to LA (1958).

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Parkins was just like "this is great for the Cubs, because it means more revenue, and this is great for the media, because it means more jobs for us, and I think, eventually, it'll be good for fans, too." What a buttmunch. Like people whose cable bills are going up $8 care that another buffed-clean Syracuse dork will have another place to apply to.

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If people can’t afford the cable bill going up by six dollars they should learn to code

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Nobody in LA cares about the Dodgers.

Wow, everyone's throwing out a lot of wrong here.

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By 2025 they’ll only need to work an hour to make up the cost in Illinois.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Makes sense, but wouldn't 10 years of Harper be extremely profitable for the Cubs? Especially if they win another world series or 3?

Fuck this.

They destroyed WGN.

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Sinclair reportedly buying Fox Regional Sports networks from Disney. Everything falling into place now.

I wonder how they'll brand the stations, since Sinclair itself is such a toxic brand. They could go with "Stadium [region]," or they could give each channel its own name, like the Cubs' channel will be called Marquee. Maybe "Arch Sports" for St. Louis, "Motor City Sports" for Detroit, and so on. Hopefully they won't all be compelled to deliver pro-Trump editorials.

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Told you

Ogie wrong?

Say it aint so.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

No Marquee on Comcast and the streets in the United States will look like Italy.

Filled with old men with bad teeth lighting their next cigarette with the last one?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014