2020 Team

[funkster]

I love Len. Outside of the booth, he can be a bit unpredictable, so I guess the radio thing isn't too surprising. The rest of it is hard to swallow though. Why the god damned White Sox? Maybe he just loves the city and doesn't want to go any where else?

To stick it right in our asses.

[jeffy]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jeffy" data-cid="355993" data-time="1607105928">
I love Len. Outside of the booth, he can be a bit unpredictable, so I guess the radio thing isn't too surprising. The rest of it is hard to swallow though. Why the god damned White Sox? Maybe he just loves the city and doesn't want to go any where else?

To stick it right in our asses.</blockquote>


I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but that really does seem like the only other plausible explanation.

[rok]

Len is pretty tight with Benetti, and I suppose he really loves doing both radio and TV. Also part of me actually prefers Len on the radio anyway. That said, I still think that if the situation at Marquee and with the Cubs in general wasn't such a mess, we probably aren't talking about this at all.



https://twitter.com/JRFegan/status/1334876423778144263

[rok]

Ok now, fuck Len.



https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/133...4038249473



https://twitter.com/Russ_Dorsey1/status/...7247433730

[Bricklayer]

Heres the thing, baseball is regional. The best broadcast teams reflect that regionalism. Marquee is trying to present a national broadcast. It is the most shortsighted mentality to not understand this. Len talked about Ernie Harwell, well theres your answer. He knows that the best baseball announcers are tied to the local team. If he stays with Marquee he will be just another broadcaster in a sea of dry white toast. He wont be able to distinguish himself in the corporate blandness of marquee.



And fuck the ricketts because marquee is theirs. This is on them. They are beholden only to their corporate benefactors and their class.



Marquee should have been a Chicago thing, but it is run by suits in New York who have no ties to the area, the Cubs or anything resembling regional baseball itself. If the ricketts had any sense at all, especially with WGN getting out of sports broadcasting, they should have taken that production infrastructure and knowledge and make marquee the new WGN.

[rok]

I was mostly joking with my previous comment on Len. The sad part is that Marquee brought in WGN's production director Bob Vorwald as a special advisor. I don't think they listened much.

[funkster]

That's the thing, Crane is just blowing smoke.  I hope they prove me wrong, but I will bet they bring in a national type just like Brick alluded to.  This attempt at telling people to slow down is just them trying to cut off the heat they likely have already been feeling today.

[jstraw]

Note to self: disable auto-renew on MLB.tv

[Butcher]

Ill wait to see who they end up hiring to replace Len, but god damn. What the fuck are they doing?

[jeffy]

Note to self: disable auto-renew on MLB.tv

You read my mind.

[rok]

This should probably go into a new 2021 team thread, but it doesn't feel like next year will ever arrive. Anyway......



https://twitter.com/GDubCub/status/1336457137581666306

[Auz]

With the way this team is heading, is there a need for a 2021 thread? I am quickly becoming disillusioned via some of the recent moves.

[rok]

Probably not. At this rate I'll just be talking to myself by April 1.

[Butcher]

Probably not. At this rate I'll just be talking to myself by April 1.

 

Me and you, buddy. Me and you.

[biggz]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="rok" data-cid="356040" data-time="1607570639">
Probably not. At this rate I'll just be talking to myself by April 1.

 

Me and you, buddy. Me and you.</blockquote>


Can I watch?