Joe Ricketts, the patriarch of the family who owns the Chicago Cubs, and team chairman Tom Ricketts apologized after Splinter News published a number of the former's emails endorsing and/or sharing racist and Islamophobic emails.
"I deeply regret and apologize for some of the exchanges I had in my emails," the elder Ricketts said in a statement, per Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune. "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.