*******Official Cubs 2025 Thread*******

[hawkifann]

Don’t think anyone can claim the luxury tax means anything. Dodgers are making the Yankees evil empire look like a joke.

Luxury tax isn’t a cap, even though a handful of teams treat it like one. Dodgers clearly DGAF about the tax at this point.

 

[shiphappens]

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I believe they are trying to break even. It's just the how that is a mess. It costs a lot of money to play the real estate game. It costs a lot of money to run a terrible tv network. What fans are mad about isn't the break even business numbers at the end of the year. They are mad that payroll is the first way of addressing budget shortfalls in any other area of the business. Ricketts sees real estate and tv as revenue and value producers. Salaries offer no return other than some fan enjoyment. Baseball appears to be the very least important part of owning a baseball team to the owners. It does not appear to be the case in New York or L.A., but those are large markets. How could little old Chicago keep up with those giant cities.