Let’s go ahead and get this right out in the open here at the start: Just because the Ricketts family has turned Wrigleyville into a mint does not mean the Cubs are going to have MLB’s highest payroll. Nor does that make ownership cheap.
One need only sit on the patio at Brickhouse Tavern and look out over the Park at Wrigley to see the new Western Gate on one side and the fast-rising Hotel Zachary on the other to dispel the notion that skinflints are running this show. And those rooftops looking in over the outfield wall?