There’s this thing I do as a parent where I’ll ask my kids to choose between two things and then I’ll end up dictating the other option anyway. Before you go thinking I’m a tremendous jerk — which actually isn’t too far from the truth — the choices in question are generally disparate and one of them isn’t very constructive. In any case, that’s sort of how I felt when hearing Tom Ricketts speak about the direction of his ballclub.
This isn’t going to be another diatribe about the veracity of ownership’s claims as to the team’s profitability or general ability to spend, but there is an aspect of heavily veiled truth to the chairman’s recent claims.