Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts 'just looking forward' despite Sammy Sosa's mixed messaging

Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts speaks to fans at the team’s annual baseball convention Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Chicago.Nam Y. Huh/AP Photos

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Sammy Sosa decided he’d been away for long enough.

“I’m 56, buddy,” Sosa said Friday at Cubs Convention. “But I look 25, right? … Look, you make mistakes in your life, and you regret it.”

The schism had lasted over two decades. So, according to chairman Tom Ricketts, Sosa reached out before last season, and they decided to talk in the offseason.

“We talked a little bit about maybe 10 years ago,” Ricketts said in a sitdown with the Sun-Times Saturday. “And it just made sense that if he was going to be truly welcomed back, he had to say…