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This Old Cub On MLB Network Friday Afternoon
If you can flip on MLB... They are showing it in honor of Ronnie getting into the HoF
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BCB at the Cubs Convention...
I have a ticket to the Cubs Convention, who's gonna be there and is there any interest in doing lunch or something on Sat?
Cubs Convention
Has there been an announcement when the tickets for the Cubs Convention will be going on sale? I know Al will be there, but who else is going to go?
Is this just Wishful Thinking?
No one was talking again … except for one Lakeview resident in a purple T-shirt who believes he spoke to Epstein on Saturday morning at a Starbucks in Lincoln Park.
BCB Smash Mouth Football league
The first BCB Football league was full so I created a second league.
Password is BCB2011
Moneyball...
When the movie comes out I was wondering who was going to see it and if folks wanted to do a BCB Moneyball movie night? Meet somewhere in the city and see it
Wrigley Field... An Apology...
by Endrick on Aug 21, 2011 5:02 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Some of you may have read of my dislike and even sometimes outright hate for Wrigley Field in the past...
I've complained about the lack of highway access, lack of parking, the ramps inside, the lousy sight lines from the handicapped seating and a host of other problems. Well just 2 weeks ago I got tickets to the Cubs/Nats game for the day they dedicated the statue to Ron Santo. I made sure and got tickets for myself and my buddy in the bleachers.
Now a few things changed from the last time I was at Wrigley. I'm not living in the NW burbs anymore I'm in Evanston now so getting there on the red line solved the getting there and parking problem so that was good, but I was still a bit skeptical about the seats.
I'd like to now apologize to Wrigley Field and the Cubs for years of rants.
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BCB Having Problems?
Is anyone else having a problem viewing BCB today? It looks like the CSS is screwed up... the main page and the posts are a mess. I checked SB Nation is self and things seem to be ok there, but BCB is all kinds of screwed up.
An off day Sci Fi what if scenario...
by Endrick on Jun 2, 2011 1:33 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Since it's an off day and I'm bored I was sitting here thinking if I woke up tomorrow morning and I realized I was Tom Ricketts what would I do as the owner of the Cubs
I know everyone has their ideas so I want to hear what you'd do?
After the jump I'll give my ideas as a start...
Yahoo BCB Fantasy League
It still looks like we are missing folks for the yahoo Fastasy League. Who's running the League now?
Cubs - Pirates - April 2nd
I was wondering who was going to try and make the game on the 2nd. Some friends of mine and I are going to meet up at the Cubbie Bear and see if the weather is decent see if we can get bleacher tickets, else we'll hang out at the CB and watch the game. How likely is it we can get tickets on the day of the game?
BCB Fantasy League Baseball...
Anyone going to start one for BCB? I was thinking about it but it looks like you can't even get the basic set up going yet on yahoo...
Sori needs to take a seat...
Ok... a lot of us have been ragging on Soriano the last few weeks. Lousy hitting, weak fielding, the hop... but tonight had to take the cake. Instead of running the hit out like he should have he stood there admiring the hit and instead of a triple he ended up stretching to get the double. Seeing as we lost anyway I wish he's have gotten thrown out at second that would have ensured Lou sitting him on the bench for a week. He's got Super Star swagger and AA skills at this point...
Grace emerged from Steroid Era with more than his integrity
I always liked Grace and thinking about this makes me respect him just a little more...
SI.com - The Hall of Fame case for Blyleven
Pretty interesting case for Bert Blyleven to be in the HOF...
Interesting conversation on WGN last night... Zell and Ricketts
by Endrick on Jun 12, 2009 1:38 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Last night I was listening to WGN Sport Central and wondered if anyone else heard it...
Basically the hold up with the sale seems to boil down to Sam Zell wanting the sale financed a certain way.
He wants Ricketts to do a majority of the sale with loans, saving Zell a buttload of taxes on the sale...
By doing this it would saddle Ricketts with 30 to 40 million in interest per year...
Now considering the sale price of the Cubs is sitting at $1.1B to $1.2 Billion the 30 to 40 million
doesn't seem like such a large amount except the Cubs are only making a profit of $30 Million a year.
So our buddy (* Tongue Firmly in Cheek *) Sam Zell, wants the new owner to use all the club profit to
keep him from having to pay his taxes on the sale thus preventing the club from doing things like
increasing the player payroll pool or make renovations to Wrigley without loosing money.
What I found most interesting is that if Zell drags his feet long enough it is possible for the Banks to
get impatient, set in and force the terms to get the sale done so they get their money and Ricketts
could very well get the team for less than the original price...
What really amazes me is this...
Is Zell really that greedy or stupid to think the new owners, no matter who they were going to be would sacrifice
the team profits to keep him from paying taxes???
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