Lex L.
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There's no fan approved mandate to go up or down or stay the same. Ricketts can tell Jim to what to be at payroll wise.. It's his millions of dollars.
That's just what it is.
The pressure just doesnt come from fans, you, dink. It also comes from the players and players union. If you have an economic model for a league of 30 teams where money gets funneled to 6 or 7 teams and one of those teams suddenly decides it wants to be like the Marlins, its not hard to see where that would cause rancor amongst the players. Conceivably, it could drive up the price to bring in FAs for the Cubs in particular in the future. It would be the players colluding against the Cubs because theyre collecting the money like fatcats and not spending it.
Beyond that, the Cubs have a bad habit of only spending when theyre ready. If you want to ***** about things not working out so well, maybe you should stop overlooking letting Hendry be the one spending the money and also going on spending sprees like they did in 2006 and then use 2006 as an excuse not to improve their team.
Opportunities to improve your team dont avial themselves only when youre ready. Thats how you end up settling and overspending every 3, or 4 offseasons.