Rick Morrissey rips the Cubs for announcing they won’t sign Bryce Harper:
To sum up: It’s not that the Cubs can’t have it all. It’s that they don’t want to pay for it all. That’s a huge distinction, especially for an outfit estimated to be worth $2.9 billion.
We can’t talk about the team’s puzzling, line-in-the-sand budget stance without resurrecting two famous quotes.
“All I can tell you is when Theo and (general manager Jed Hoyer) get to the point where they need more resources to execute their plan, the Ricketts family will be there for them,” team spokesman Dennis Culloton told the Sun-Times at the beginning of the 2013 season. “It’s as simple as that.”
“Basically, my job is fill a wheelbarrow with money, take it to Theo’s office, and dump it,” Cubs finance guy Crane Kenney told Bloomberg Businessweek before the 2015 season:Chicago Sun-Times
There’s a reward for anyone who can find that wheelbarrow.
They could at least make Harper a low ball offer to see what happens. Morrissey believes the fans should be unhappy with this, and he is right.
from baseballmusings.com http://bit.ly/2TUfhTi
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