I’m not sure whether Tom Ricketts was thinking about Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong or Pocket Full of Kryptonite, but the tune he sang Tuesday had him sounding an awful lot like a spin doctor. In an “exclusive” interview with ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, Ricketts tried to set the record straight on team and league finances. Quotations are used above because the Cubs chairman really didn’t say anything he hasn’t already shared publicly at least once over the past few years.
The issue at hand is that, while Major League Baseball generates increasing higher revenue totals each year, that doesn’t necessarily result in giant piles of liquid assets.