Tom Ricketts Wants Your Help......Again.

[DewsSox79]

I see it at most making ~4 games difference over the course of the year, whether that be for or against the Cubs. I think that the better team is really all that matters. However, I don't think it hurts the Cubs that they play the day games.

And what are you using to come up with 4 games?

 

[Jntg4]

And what are you using to come up with 4 games?

He's using the new saber stat called DaTMYSACK

Day
Time
Month
Year
Superfluous
Advantage
Calculation
Knowledgebase

Calculated: (((Day if Month * 2)+(Time of Day-1))*((Number of Month * 3)+(Year of Decade)))/(Times sucked Hendry's dick)-(Number years since last world championship)

 

[TheCubfather]

with rahm as the mayor and a cubs fan, the renovations will be made soon most likely.

 

[DewsSox79]

He's using the new saber stat called DaTMYSACK

Day
Time
Month
Year
Superfluous
Advantage
Calculation
Knowledgebase

Calculated: (((Day if Month * 2)+(Time of Day-1))*((Number of Month * 3)+(Year of Decade)))/(Times sucked Hendry's dick)-(Number years since last world championship)

ROFL! thats awesome!

 

[2SeamHeat]

Look at the teams we have put onto the field. Does it really matter? No. The teams we put out there weren't going to win anyways. As I have already stated, it ultimately comes down to the product you put onto the field day in and day out.

Advantage: oh we have the only store in the hood... harmful effect of advantage: but we get robbed 4 times a week.

Advantage: we hire illegal aliens to work for us at $2/HR... harmful effect: the INS caught up with us and now we are facing 5 times our annual revenue in fines... as well as prison time.

Advantage: we shipped all of our assembly operations overseas to avoid high priced unions and American workers' salaries... harmful effect: not enough Americans can afford to buy our crappy cars.

Advantage: we play 60 games a year during the day to screw with our opponents' biological clocks... harmful effect: our own players' biological clocks are messed up even more... and we make about 2/3 the revenue during the day that we can at night.

I don't think you can call something an advantage when it harms your revenue potential... which means your payroll potential... which means your talent potential. It's simple fact, when you play at night you expand viewership of the games on TV. This means higher advertising revenue, which results in larger payouts during broadcast negotiations. You play at night, you make more money. The more money you make, the more you can spend on payroll, coaching, scouting, and development.

This notion of playing games during the day because other team's aren't used to playing at that time works both ways. If the Cubs have this advantage, then every other team has an advantage over the Cubs when they play at night... for the same EXACT reasoning. Also, it hurts the team even more. You come home from a 6-game road trip, play the next day at home during the day... while the other teams NOT playing in Wrigley don't exhaust themselves that little extra bit by playing hours later. It's not a new phenomenon that the Cubs fade in September.... even when putting together good teams. The 2007-08 season you love to point out as being huge successes... those guys looked awfully damned worn out by the last two weeks of the season... and had NO energy in the playoffs.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Serious question for people who actually know something about engineering and architecture...

How long do you think Wrigley Field can last without major renovations? Even after renovations, how long can they continue to patch it together?

At some point they have to think about starting from scratch.

The upper decks have been repeatedly reinforced, patching is an option for perhaps another decade...maybe 2. They obviously have to conduct regular structural inspections. The upper decks will have to be completely re-built. That's a big job b/c the roof and walls tie into them. The original architectural rendering had the larger triangle design, replacing all outer walls barring OF Ivy and a few other of the historical portions.

Which is good way to go IMHO.

 

[derosabomb]

So the cubs want to use money out of the amusement tax? lol wtf is your peoples problem. the cubs are what the 3rd biggest tourist attraction in the fucking state. why cant they use money that they generate for themselves?

 

[nwfisch]

So the cubs want to use money out of the amusement tax? lol wtf is your peoples problem. the cubs are what the 3rd biggest tourist attraction in the fucking state. why cant they use money that they generate for themselves?

If the state and city are bankrupt, how do they pay for the Cubs :shrug: :tiptoe:

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Advantage: oh we have the only store in the hood... harmful effect of advantage: but we get robbed 4 times a week.

Advantage: we hire illegal aliens to work for us at $2/HR... harmful effect: the INS caught up with us and now we are facing 5 times our annual revenue in fines... as well as prison time.

Advantage: we shipped all of our assembly operations overseas to avoid high priced unions and American workers' salaries... harmful effect: not enough Americans can afford to buy our crappy cars.

Advantage: we play 60 games a year during the day to screw with our opponents' biological clocks... harmful effect: our own players' biological clocks are messed up even more... and we make about 2/3 the revenue during the day that we can at night.

I don't think you can call something an advantage when it harms your revenue potential... which means your payroll potential... which means your talent potential. It's simple fact, when you play at night you expand viewership of the games on TV. This means higher advertising revenue, which results in larger payouts during broadcast negotiations. You play at night, you make more money. The more money you make, the more you can spend on payroll, coaching, scouting, and development.

This notion of playing games during the day because other team's aren't used to playing at that time works both ways. If the Cubs have this advantage, then every other team has an advantage over the Cubs when they play at night... for the same EXACT reasoning. Also, it hurts the team even more. You come home from a 6-game road trip, play the next day at home during the day... while the other teams NOT playing in Wrigley don't exhaust themselves that little extra bit by playing hours later. It's not a new phenomenon that the Cubs fade in September.... even when putting together good teams. The 2007-08 season you love to point out as being huge successes... those guys looked awfully damned worn out by the last two weeks of the season... and had NO energy in the playoffs.

:clap:

post of the thread

 

[derosabomb]

If the state and city are bankrupt, how do they pay for the Cubs :shrug: :tiptoe:

if the cubs generate the tax why cant they use it.

 

[nwfisch]

if the cubs generate the tax why cant they use it.

Because the state and city are broke.

 

[Jntg4]

if the cubs generate the tax why cant they use it.

because the money still doesn't exist because the city/state need it to pay back debts... :shrug:





Bandits 3 outs away from NPF championship

 

[derosabomb]

Because the state and city are broke.

you dont even live in illinois stfu

 

[nwfisch]

you dont even live in illinois stfu

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I ain't mad at cha Dero.

Doesn't I can't watch WGN news at 9 :tiptoe:

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Ehh

Its gonna happen from my hunch..

 

[poodski]

if the cubs generate the tax why cant they use it.

This is the first post in this entire thread that made any damn sense.

 

[DewsSox79]

This is the first post in this entire thread that made any damn sense.

take a business course.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

take a business course.

Gov and business isn't the same.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Gov and business isn't the same.

nor do all business or government courses teach you what you need to know or teach you the right stuff...


gov and business are definitely related..but of course they are definitely not the same lol

 

[Captain Obvious]

you could make the same case with the cubs not being used to night games

I disagree. It's not hard to get up at 2 PM to be at the ballpark at 4 PM. It's hard to get up at like 8 to at the park by 10, though. Especially if you're coming off of a night game.