The Cubs have given us lots of memorable rhetoric that has come back to bite them. Remember when business president Crane Kenney said in 2015 that his job was to “fill a wheelbarrow with money” and dump it in former baseball president Theo Epstein’s office? That wheelbarrow is still in storage.
Another good one came at the 2020 Cubs Convention, where chairman Tom Ricketts had a revealing exchange with fans. Trying to drum up excitement for the launch of Marquee Sports Network, he told the crowd, “Our promise for the next 10 years is to continue to have the best relationship with our fans of any professional sports team in the world.