My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
Baseball has all the money.
We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.
It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
I just appreciated so much the contract they gave me, and I wanted to give something back to the Cubs' organization.
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.