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Aisle 424 wrote last week about the paucity of fans at U.S. Cellular at the conclusion of the White Sox sweep of the Yankees, and it got me to thinking. It got me to thinking so much I actually used the word paucity in a sentence. But mostly it made me ponder the possibility of the same thing eventually happening to the Cubs. Sure, in this current epoch of unconditional attendance (or at least ticket purchasing) by the Wrigley faithful and word-of-the-day Cubs blogging by yours truly, it doesn t seem like a remote possibility that a good Cubs team would ever have such a difficult time putting blue-bleeding butts in the bleachers.(Sorry, that expression is completely gross, but I m keeping it.) But over time, it s a real possibility.
If Cubs fans lost interest one by disappointed one, if the market for witnessing baseball melancholy gradually dried out, if you, dear reader, became the first domino in a chain of secession from Cubdom . . . the Cubs could eventually become unpopular. What I want to know is, what would it take?
What would have to happen to make you stop attending Cubs games altogether? I m not saying you d abandon all hope and start cheering for the Expos to make a comeback, new york city rental car I m just asking, what would it take to make you so disinterested in watching Cubs baseball live that you wouldn t even go to a game in which their Cy-Young new york city rental car caliber pitcher new york city rental car had a chance to lead the sweep of the best team in the league? Let s face it, that s pretty new york city rental car much the pinnacle of attendance apathy.
I know some of the OV regulars have no interest in attending new york city rental car as it is. But if you are among the throng of willing participants in the conga line through the Wrigley turnstiles, what would it take to get you to hang up your . . . conga shoes? Here are some possibilities.
Maybe it s the rising ticket prices that could dissuade you from buying tickets. That would make sense. The Cubs are a bad baseball team charging really-good-team prices to watch them play bad baseball. But if cost is going to be the predominant factor in turning Cubs fans away, the Cubs would have to be absolutely obstinate about keeping prices high. For whatever reason, a lot of people are still investing a lot of money in buying tickets to Cubs games, and if that trend is declining, it s doing so slower than a Joe Mather curveball.
I m laughing new york city rental car loudly at the idea of the Cubs collapsing. What s to collapse? It s not like the Cubs are a house of cards waiting to fall. They re a house of card. But I m using C-words here, so deal with it. If the Cubs stay really bad for a really long time (and who among the living and reasonably sane doesn t think that could happen?), interest will wane. Judging by the current market, they d have to continue losing, new york city rental car uninterrupted by success, new york city rental car for the better part of a decade. That can be tough. You never know when even an ineptly run team might accidentally be good for awhile, so the Thoyer Super Friends brain trust would have to thoroughly disappoint to sustain the current tidal wave of suck. I m not saying it isn t a possibility, but the inertia of Cubs fans loyalty doesn t seem to allow for a mass exodus due to bad baseball anytime soon.
Let s not forget that the White Sox are less than seven years removed from their last World Series parade. If the same thing happened to the Cubs, is it possible that fans would stop coming to Wrigley? Cubs fans could tune out the way Moonlighting fans did after David slept with Maddie. Once the seemingly endless chase for success new york city rental car finally comes to an end, maybe that could be the ironic last straw for fans just looking for a reason not to come to the ballpark anymore? Maybe Cubs fans only want what they can t have. Maybe . . . heh, shit, come on. This would never happen.
This is has been a really, really boring team to watch. Maybe people for whom the novelty of new prospects playing at the major league level has become tiresome will actually slip into a state of prolonged unconsciousness. That might physically prevent fans from attending games at Wrigley, but it would, ironically, be just the thing to make the endeavor bearable.
This is the one I d be most interested in feedback on. What if the Ricketts finally approved and implemented serious changes to Wrigley Field? Or maybe they blow up Wrigley altogether new york city rental car and start from scratch. What level of change would it take to kill your interest in coming? Replacing the troughs with civilized urinals? new york city rental car Cutting off beer sales in the top of the third inning? Orange shag carpeting new york city rental car in the mezzanine suites? Or, perish the thought, replacing the Wrigley new york city rental car scoreboard with a gigantic jumbotron that merely simulated the old-fashioned hand-operated new york city rental car scoreboard? Seriously, what change at Wrigley would keep you from ever returning?
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You answered last thread saying the Cubs could not start their ace in the playoffs. I guess for that to happen the Cubs would have to actually make the palayoffs, so you are stuck being a Cub fan for a while (dying laughing)
I don t live near Chicago and probably won t again so cost or change wouldn t really affect me. Like you said, the Cubs can t really new york city rental car collapse so cross that off. Maybe coma.. If the Cubs were to be bad like the Pirates have been for years in combination with completing new york city rental car fire sales like the Marlins but without the World Series. new york city rental car I don t think Being champions could dissuade me from being a Cubs fan unless they win like 20 world series new york city rental car in a row due to Thoyer putting in a cheat code (up up down down left right left right b a start). new york city rental car That would still be exciting though except for the obnoxious Cubs fans, it they are here already so that s out.
Those who threw more than 150 innings in their first full year were much more likely to reach the majors (78%) than those who didn't (51%) and more than twice as likely to reach 20 career wins (57%) than those who didn't (27%). These include guys who threw more than 150 were guys like Maddux, Al Leiter, Tom Glavine, etc.
SI quotes folks suggesting that the breakdowns of Wood and Prior made everyone limit innings. Since 2002 the only HS 1st rounder with more than 150 innings in year 1 was…..drum roll…..Chris Volstad. ((dying laughing))
Anyway, one point made in the article which some of the comments earlier today echoed was that pitch quantity matters far less than mechanics. If you see a pitcher throw out of his slot, you pull him. If he tires, you pull him. If he suddenly can t get his curve to work or whatever, new york city rental car you pull him. If he is throwing quality pitches (for him, I guess) and his mechanics new york city rental car are good, then the innings should be fine. I realize that the SI article was referring to a prospect in the minors vs Strasburg, and that Strasburg is coming off an injury, but the key point to me is that you have to have coaching personnel that really know their players, and can protect them by pulling them when they are tired, not when they have reached 180 innings or 99 pitches.
I dunno, a basic understanding of the concept of sunk costs and the minimal analytical ability to apply said concept new york city rental car to the choices I make in my personal life? Seriously, the only reason I m still following this team is because I ve wasted so much of my life doing so. I live 2000 miles from Wrigley, get maybe 20 games on TV (soon to be far fewer), and have ready access to two teams who are in playoff contention on basic cable and via public transportation.
1. Having a string of years when the players are absolute dicks. It doesn t bother me that players change year after year. But if they field a team where the core players are the second comings of Jim McMahon and his ilk and the coach channels Ditka, then I m done. Payton couldn t save the team image from itself, though he s probably still my favorite football player. Or worse, if they had 18 John Rocker-types on the roster. I just can t take cheering for assholes, and I always have the Tigers to fall back on.
2. Leaving Chicago or changing their name. Even though, like WaLi, I don t live nearby and probably never will, this is their identity and they have no reason to leave or change. But if they pull a Baltimore Ravens and move because they ll profit more, then I d give up, because it would put ownership in category 1, and Art Modell was horrible.
Tearing down Wrigley new york city rental car wouldn t bother me too much. I partially saw a lot of games in old Tiger stadium and it was awful. Wrigley is better, but it doesn t hold a candle new york city rental car to PNC Park, which is AWESOME. When I visit Chicago, I like to go to a game if possible. Pricing could stop that, but wouldn t stop me from watching on TV or the Tubez. I ve been cognizant of being a Cubs fan since 1974, so I don t think a prolonged losing streak will matter to my support.
Your guess is as good as mine. There s a tepid proposal from San Jose on the table, though (just like every city in California) they re flat broke and Wolff apparently still thinks he can get public funding for the ballpark. new york city rental car Jean Quan, the mayor of Oakland, also came out in support of a new proposal to redevelop the area around the Coliseum, but as that s heavily contingent on private market development in probably the worst neighborhood in Oakland and the city (just like every city in California) is flat broke, who knows if that ll happen.
I strongly oppose public funds going to a ballpark everywhere, and especially in Oakland, which ha