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 Sorry but this sounds delusional or an excuse for not winning a title for 100 years. |
It doesn't really matter what it sounds like to you; it's the truth.
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Baseball is a business of winning, not who plays in the coolest park.
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Baseball is a business of filling seats. Usually that's done through winning. It's not done that way for the Cubs. The team has went to the playoffs what 5 times in the last 30 years? That 5 times remains consistent if you go back
seventy years.
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If you ask true Cub, or should I say baseball fan, they'd gladly take a few World Series titles even if it meant playing somewhere else.. And if they win, revenues will not suffer from playing somewhere else, or under a different name.
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A 'true' Cub fan might tell you exactly what you said. But those aren't what fills up a 40 thousand seat building 81 times a summer.
It's like you're arguing what they should be (all about the winning) and not accepting what they ARE (an experience).
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I hope Wrigley stays. I think its a great historical landmark to the game of baseball. But lets not lose sight of what the Cubs goals are, which is winning, first and foremost.
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That's not the goal for them. It's a perk.