Only a couple of hours after manger Lou Piniella formally announced his retirement as Cubs manager on July 20, team chairman Tom Ricketts could look out at his beautiful Wrigley Field and see swaths of green.
And it wasn't money. Anything but.
In his first year as team owner, Ricketts has been...
If there's one thing Chicago Cubs fans are known for, it's putting up with sub-par teams and high ticket and concession prices -- all because of what they're ultimately paying for: the old-timey atmosphere of historic Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side.
But if new Cubs owner Tom Ricketts has...
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It used to be when you went to Wrigley Field, the team wasn't very good -- but the food was even worse.
At least you got what you paid for. "Lunch well -- and economically," the Cubs used to proclaim above the concessions menu on their cardboard scorecard. That was only half truth in advertising....
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Honeymoon with fans fleeting as Cubs owners raise ticket prices
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Amid a love fest of a Cubs Convention in which he and his sibling-owners got standing ovations and baseball fans chanted "Tommy! Tommy!", new Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts still got hit right between the eyes with the bottom-line question.
"Will you reconsider your decision to raise ticket...
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