Based on their words and actions over the past few weeks, MLB owners apparently believe we commoners are unable to obtain and digest information. How else do you explain their repeated attempts to offer players the same deal with different packaging, or the idea that theirs is not a money-making enterprise?
Tom Ricketts lamented the potential for “biblical” losses when he spoke with ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, presumably while building an ark with which to save his family from a flood of bad PR. But to hear him explain it, the massive boat he’s built in and around Wrigley Field is almost too leaky to be deemed seaworthy.