The Curse of Wrigley Field

Aramis Ramirez will be a Cub for another year as he picked up his own $14.6 million option for 2011.  Man the Cubs payroll is going to be high and you hope they have something better to show for it then they did last year.  Ramirez’s numbers are down although that’s due in part to his health. If he could stay healthy, maybe he could back to form.

The Cubs have a $16 million option next year and I don’t see that happening even with the hefty $2 million buyout.  The Cubs have to get out from under some of these deals if they’re going to better compete in the NL Central.

The City of Mesa overwhelmingly approved a new spring stadium complex for the Chicago Cubs in last night’s election.  With most of the votes in, the measure got a 63% positive response.  There’s some land that has to be secured so a deal hasn’t quite been finalized but this appears to be the biggest hurdle the team faced.  Most of the funding for the complex will come from an increase in the local hotel tax.