Cubs radio moving to 780 WBBM

2323 said:

In correct. Apparently WGN was able to opt out if the ratings were bad enough. So, the Cubs lack of success and resulting diminishing appeal were vere much responsible for this.

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chibears55 said:

cubs lack of success ? LMAO if that was the case WGN should of walked away back in the 70's early 80's when they went a stretch of being below .500 for 11 straight years..

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2323 said:

Good job, genius. You obviously missed the part where the fee doubled since the Ricketts assumed ownership. Another thing that makes your comment a complete failure is that after 2003 expectations were raised. Ricketts belief that fans line up to come no matter what was vorbei. It had gone the way of obsolescence. This is why you have an owner daring people not to show up and a million fan march walking away from Wrigley Field.

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chibears55 said:

And once again your over blowing this...
They switched radio stations, who cares...

The media which over blows everything didn't make as much out of it as you are..lol

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2323 said:

I actually don't care. I'm not invested in the Cubs. I've stopped going to games. I don't listen to them on the radio or watch them on tv. The Cubs are irrelevant, you see. A lot of people aren't going to care if the Cubs are even still on the radio. And that's what brought things to where they are. People have realized there are better things to do with their time. And the thing is, even if the cubs do start winning again, they're only going to get some of the people, who've stopped following them, back.

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chibears55 said:

You don't follow the team and their irrelevant to you, but yet you come on a cubs message board and offer up your thoughts and opinion on them.. ok..

not disagreeing with you that fans have found other things to do then devote all their time to cubs games, etc.. now..
But if your a die hard and been a fan for many years, your always following good or bad..


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2323 said:

You're a fool.

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2323 said:

I actually don't care. I'm not invested in the Cubs. I've stopped going to games. I don't listen to them on the radio or watch them on tv. The Cubs are irrelevant, you see. A lot of people aren't going to care if the Cubs are even still on the radio. And that's what brought things to where they are. People have realized there are better things to do with their time. And the thing is, even if the cubs do start winning again, they're only going to get some of the people, who've stopped following them, back.

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zack54attack said:

What? You're going to be shocked how many people will come back if this rebuild will actually work. You really think fans won't come back to a winning team? Especially a fan base who has waited for a winning team?

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2323 said:

Some will but many won't. Some will be turned off by the Ricketts and how they do business. Some will come to the realization that life's too short to sit around watching baseball. Let's face it, baseballs not the most exciting sport and a game is only 1/162 of a season. And then there might be other viable reasons to continue ignoring the Cubs.

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2323 said:

Some will but many won't. Some will be turned off by the Ricketts and how they do business. Some will come to the realization that life's too short to sit around watching baseball. Let's face it, baseballs not the most exciting sport and a game is only 1/162 of a season. And then there might be other viable reasons to continue ignoring the Cubs.

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2323 said:

Some will but many won't. Some will be turned off by the Ricketts and how they do business. Some will come to the realization that life's too short to sit around watching baseball. Let's face it, baseballs not the most exciting sport and a game is only 1/162 of a season. And then there might be other viable reasons to continue ignoring the Cubs.

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2323 said:

There's no virtue in throwing loyalty to people who don't give a f*ck about you. Doing so only encourages people to take advantage of you. Yes, this is what's happening. This isn't loyalty, it's stupidity. It's stupidity to encourage people, who don't give a f*ck about you, to take advantage of you repeatedly. The sooner you stop seeing yourself as a fan and start seeing yourself as a customer, you'll be better off.

It's also stupid to defend 3.5 hours of shoe box strike zones, countless mound visits, and infinite throws to first any time a runner gets on base.

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chibears55 said:

And yet here you are on a baseball message board , in the cubs forum talking about the game and team you find boring, irrelevant, and a waste of time. .
Gotcha........

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2323 said:

There's no virtue in throwing loyalty to people who don't give a f*ck about you. Doing so only encourages people to take advantage of you. Yes, this is what's happening. This isn't loyalty, it's stupidity. It's stupidity to encourage people, who don't give a f*ck about you, to take advantage of you repeatedly. The sooner you stop seeing yourself as a fan and start seeing yourself as a customer, you'll be better off.

It's also stupid to defend 3.5 hours of shoe box strike zones, countless mound visits, and infinite throws to first any time a runner gets on base.

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Captain Obvious said:

So you highlight 3 negative aspects of the game and fail to mention the countless great things about it.

Also if baseball is so stupid, how stupid does it make you talking about the stupid game on what I can only assume is a stupid message board?

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