Tom Ricketts releases statement on Joe Ricketts’ email controversy

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesOn Monday, the website splinter.com released a series of emails sent to and received by Joe Ricketts, father of Tom Ricketts, chairman of the Cubs.

The content of these emails can only be described as “racist,” among other things.

Both Joe Ricketts and Tom Ricketts released statements regarding these emails

“I deeply regret and apologize for some of the exchanges I had in my emails. Sometimes I received emails that I should have condemned. Other times I’ve said things that don’t reflect my value system. I strongly believe that bigoted ideas are wrong.”

From Tom Ricketts, via a Ricketts family spokesman:

We are aware of the racially insensitive emails in my…