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[denmo83]

WGN/Cubs broadcast roots go back to 1948...

I only know that because Wikipedia said so. I can only attest from the 1960's.

I don't recall seeing a lot of Yankee games but yes, the Fighting Irish were on every weekend.

Back then we had CBS, NBC, ABC and WGN that came in good reception-wise. Channel 32 on the UHF dial barely came in, but there wasn't anything on it worth watching. White Sox were on that channel which is probably why most of the city discounts them as a true major league team having never seen them.

Never had a desire to root for the Yankees and I don't recall anyone in the neighborhood that did either.

Top payrolls generally correlate to winning teams. Mostly teams in the top ten payrolls win.

Then when I look at Joe Maddon's success with bargain basement payrolls, it leads me to feel the Cubs really did this re-build the right way. They are buying up the whole Wrigleyville neighborhood. I think they will spend on free agency now that the nucleus has been formed.

[catdaddyrt]

well there you go - whats wrong with all the kids wanting to be Yankees ? They want to be winners. Where I went to high school our school rounded up all the best players for the football in our town. They crossed the so called boundary lines between the 2 high schools, they even moved families across town.NO one said a thing for years till the team starting taking the district title and winning state championships on a regular basis(5A ball used to be 4A)Cry babies in Dallas and Houston were in an uproar over the cherry picking of players JUST IN OUR CITY. We pulled players from 100k pop town and Houston had millions in pop.Waaaaaaaaaaaa So as time went by the rival team across town had not beaten Permian Panthers in about 50years so the kids parents blew a fuse and the school lines were no longer to be picked across. If you lived on one side of town you were destined to play for a losing program.After the cherry picking was stopped the rival team still lost year after year. Turns out it was actually the management team that was making the difference but oh how they cried for years on end- probably still crying today. Anyway there you go on the Yank theory.
There is a movie out about my High school football team Friday Night Lights - it does come off as redneck but the movie depicts pretty much how it was back then.

Summary: Money alone will not buy a championship team .

Nice Job KC and NYM -