Pointless diatribe. It seems to suggest people are complaining but still forking over cash to the Ricketts. You have no reason to assume this. There's a decent chance the Cubs will gat a million less than in 2008. So, people are not accepting it. People have all ready made a choice in this love it or leave it ultimatum you're pushing. It's already been done.
The real issue is you're failure to recognize the need to take your own advice. You're banging on this in a forum specifically designated for people to discuss the Cubs. So, by virtue of it's existence, this is the correct place for people to complain about the Cubs. Note that it's not an "avoid irritating beckdawg" forum. And that's where it is. It's probably more appropriate for you to consider you're own "love it or leave it" ultimatums where this forum is concerned. Perhaps you should either access or not access the website instead of admonishing rebuking people for doing something that this forum's purpose.
Btw, I'm not trying to chase you off by pointing this out.
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.
