As to the first paragraphy, how has declining attendance change spending habits the past 4 years? That's the point. It doesn't and it wont or at least in the way you want it to. I'm not telling people to go to games. However, avoiding them isn't doing anything either. If it continues long enough one of two things will happen. They will either reduce payroll to the point where they are perennial bottom feeders using lack of attendance as an excuse or they will move the team and use lack of attendance as an excuse. As I said before, show me an example of a fanbase forcing the sale of the team. Even the Expos essentially was Loria trading them for the Marlins where coincidentally he went right back to being a tight ass.
As to the second paragraph, I just don't see what people are getting out of it. As I said before, I'm not saying you have to be rainbow and sunshine. The cubs offense fucking sucks. If you want to discuss that to the end of days cool. That's actually about baseball. If you think the team should sign/trade for x player and want to discuss that great. My problem with people bitching about what they spend is who's arguing against it? Has anyone here ever said "No, the cubs shouldn't have another $20 mil to spend on payroll"? It's an uninteresting topic. Payroll is what payroll is going to be and every team's fans think they should have more.
I just want to talk about what happens on the field or at the very least, someone who may actually play on the field. At this point, anything there is to say about ownership has already been said 100x over. It's stale and uninteresting.
