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Tyler S
I’m an O’s fan but I hope the Cubs make good decisions and end up with a winning team following this off-season. That fan base has suffered long enough lol.
Larry DePaoli
Amen
adamg
I find sports are more entertaining when the biggest markets are competitive.
jasonpen
Imagine the TV ratings with the Cubs in the World Series…
oh Hal
You must have loved the years where the Yankees and Sox won most of the time.
adamg
I’m a Jays fan, so I don’t like it when they win all the time, but popular teams doing well grows the sport overall, which is great for baseball
oh Hal
Making it more like the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals may increase revenue, but great for the sport – I don’t agree.
adamg
Sorry, not sure I follow your analogy…Why is having two large market teams in the World Series comparable to the Harlem Globetrotters vs. Washington Generals?
oh Hal
How did we get to two large market teams? Maybe they should just consolidate to a half dozen or so super teams.
adamg
If there were only 12 teams in the largest markets, Boston wouldn’t have a team. Nice try though. My point was that traditionally popular teams grow the sport, and you compared it to the Washington Generals. I still have no idea what you meant…
oh Hal
You’re being disingenuous. I didn’t compare the large market teams to the Generals, I compared them to the Globetrotters.
adamg
ah fair enough. regardless, if you’re looking to grow the game worldwide, the big market teams/teams with the largest fan bases need to be competing
I Want My Bird
I know it’s an ongoing issue to remodel Wrigley, and being the highest bidder is probably enough, but I wonder if the park facilities during the season are a factor in a free agent’s decision just as is the field surface. I recall Eric Karros being asked on the radio what he felt was a cause of the Cubs difficulties over the years, and him describing going down to a room the size of a closet to take some swings.
Chris Diederich
There is no longer an ongoing issue to remodel Wrigley. It is now ongoing construction. The Bleachers are basically gone already, and they will have the 2nd largest players facility in all of baseball soon. Shovels are in the ground.
Melvin Mendoza, Jr.
Cubs will instantly be pretty scary if they make a couple good signings and get decent production from the prospects.
AVinny GarSac
I’d say that the comments of “Next 15 months” means that they plan on making a serious splash or two this winter. Then they will watch how particular prospects and young talent pan out over the first 3 months of the season, and possibly head to the July trade deadline more as a buyer than a seller for the first time in a few years. Finally, they will assess where they are come this time next year, and make another splash or two in order to fill whatever holes they may still have. All leading to what will probably be a record somewhere around .500 in 2015, but a serious playoff push in 2016.