Cole Wright hosted a conversation with Tom and Laura Ricketts to kick off Day 2 of the 2023 Cubs Convention. Whoever was booing Tom during the Opening Ceremony must have slept in on Saturday morning, because there was only applause in the sparser crowd as the conversation kicked off at 9 a.m. There was a lot of speculation about whether this panel would return after it was removed from the 2020 convention, but to the Ricketts’ credit it was brought back and included a decent number of questions from fans.
I’ll cover three main buckets of questions in this story: the impressive work Cubs Charities continues to do in Chicago, the continued development of additional revenue streams in and around the ballpark, including the sports book, and fan concerns about if and when Sammy Sosa will ever be welcomed back to Wrigley Field.