That’s a word salad of a video that took about 10,000 attempts to make but worth the broader message that I want to see Kyle Tucker extended. I want to see investments in the pitching staff. I want to see PCA get a contract for a long period of time. I want Tom Ricketts to act like a big swinging dick before I start celebrating the All Star game. Otherwise it’s just one big distraction from what really matters: winning baseball games.
Tom Ricketts will literally do anything to distract Cubs fans from his lousy ownership. I can’t confirm but it sure sounds and feels like he’s lying about everything and that absolutely applies to breaking even off a $371,000,000 surplus every year.
So to get the All Star game means he had to lobby for the All Star game which means he spent a lot of time communicating with MLB. He made presentations and traveled to NYC with Crane Kenney and talked about investing in the ballpark and the brand and blah blah blah. And all of this went well enough for Rob Manfred to believe him enough to give us the All Star game.
Normally I would be very proud of my owner for doing this but I can’t get over the fact that Tom Ricketts just doesn’t care about the day-to-day Cubs fans outside of how expensive it is to run the team. And normally I could overlook such intentionally selfish behavior provided he spent a fair amount of money on the team but he doesn’t. It’s actually embarrassing to know the Cubs bank the biggest surplus in baseball while the Mets spend 95% of their collected revenues on player salaries.
That’s the biggest metric for assessing whether an owner cares and that’s why I’m saying Tom Ricketts doesn’t care. It’s obvious in his actions.
So now that we have the All Star Game on the schedule, I’m turning up my own personal heat on the situation because I’ve had enough. You want the world marveling at your ballpark? Then fill it with good fucking players for the rank and file that enable your arrogance. At least do that well enough for us to think you give a shit and then we can both sleep at night.
Until then, spare me.
Everything.