Tom Ricketts infamously told the world that the Cubs’ goal was simply to break even between team revenue and player payroll, just the latest in a series of statements from the chairman that struck fans as worse than tone deaf. This one probably falls somewhere between “dead-weight money” and “biblical losses” in the Ricketts lexicon,
“They think somehow we have all these dollars that the Dodgers have or the Mets have or the Yankees have and we just keep it, which isn’t true at all,” Ricketts told 670 The Score during Cubs Convention.