The gig is up on the North Side. For the 23 years of my existence, Cubs fans have been saddled with bad-to-mediocre baseball with a sprinkle of good. And for a good chunk of those years, part of the reason the Cubs have sucked like no other team in sports history is because of ownership's reluctance to put into the team what the fans put into them.
Remember when Andy MacPhail and Bud Selig tried telling baseball fans that the MLB and almost all of its franchises were getting by, if only by the skin of their teeth. Then, days later, a report came out that most baseball teams were profiting with he Cubs being among the top three? I do. It confirmed to me something that true Cubs fans (not that guy who goes out there and blatantly tries to make him the most hardcorediehardfanboyevar) knew all along. There's always been money in the safe, but no one knows the access code.
Yahoo! Sports found the access code and
broke it down here. I will break it down further after the jump.
