Somewhat the darlings of the pre season, with a great draft and enough stock invested in them to short wall street, the Chicago Butchers should have come out of the blocks like a man with his hair on fire. That's not to say they've performed poorly, that would be a hard stance to take with their opponents thus far being far from weaklings. However with one win and three losses to their name it's hard to point to the Butchers as having taken significant steps forward from their performance last season. At 1-3 you could hope they get better. For this beleaguered fan base, however, it would appear to be more of the same. With the dreaded E word on the horizon as well what will bode for the stocks of the Butchers? Even player protection might not be enough to stop the big short. A 3-13 record last season saw their stocks at the cheapest available from all of the teams in the ISFL. At current projections that would leave them at 4-12. Is that enough to justify a surge in prices? I somewhat doubt it. Until such time as the team is posting wins on a regular basis it'll be hard for their stock to be anything more than fools gold, or a massive money fire.
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