Is Tom Ricketts holding back the Chicago Cubs?

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1. TFW you search for the latest episode because you haven’t been notified yet and it’s because it had only been uploaded 13 seconds ago 😬 #GoCubs #Everydayer

2. We need an owner that doesn't give af about their portfolio.

3. Yes, he is. But he is probably buying into philosophical rhetoric from Jed. They should be better in view of what they do spend, but there should be few limits in what this team spends, based upon the support and revenue this team generates.

4. Yes! He only wants to open new culvers, Taco Bell’s, and Dippin dots and they don’t want to spend money on big time players, but they would definitely put down some money on an expensive piece of real estate

5. Chicago Cubs owners need to spend money like the LA dodgers did we only live once I say what a championship I spend the money and not cheap to spend it.

6. Going off past comments saying they like to stay near that 1st luxury tax, I'd say yes. Hoyer also likes to constantly bring up "intelligent spending" which could be an indicator of a spending limit.

   Could go as far as saying having Hawkins as the #2 and now Counsell as manager is to try and help this team play above some kind of spending limit as well. They both come from small market teams so they always had to make due with less resources.

   Regardless if Ricketts has given a limit to Hoyer, Hoyer has still allocated the resources he does have extremely poorly. In my opinion the state of the team is absolutely on both Ricketts and Hoyer/Hawkins.

   An as far as them "willing to pay for Ohtani" the only reason I could believe they were actually willing is because he's and international phenom. He would've been more of a business move than anything else but he was never leaving California.

7. Well its 2 many owners, what more brothers and a sister? Hes not a sole owner, so maybe they should sell the team??🤷

8. ricketts has been and always will be cheap. never forget he wanted to spend 4.7 billion on a soccer team but couldn’t afford ohtani

9. Hoyer messed up. Simple

10. Hey guys love the show! I listen everyday! I just wanted to add my 2 cents lol. With the prices of tickets and beer and food and with all of the lavish upgrades in and around Wrigley and the rooftops and anything else that I missed the Ricketts family have plenty of money to be just like the Yankees or the Dodgers. I have been a fan for the better part of 40 years now and my opinion is this. The Ricketts and Theo brought a World Series back to Chicago finally and they know without a doubt how loyal the Cubs fans and fan base is and they know that no matter how good or how bad the product of the team is it doesn’t matter because the fans are still going to fill the seats and spend money so they can just be mediocre and fill and pad their pockets and then once or twice a decade they will go out and make an attempt to improve the team to keep the fans interest up and keep the hope alive. I would be willing to bet they they could go out and get Soto and Burnes and whoever they want but they won’t because they are doing exactly what the Cubs do and if they didn’t get lucky with all the prospects they had in 2016 they wouldn’t have went out and gotten a Harper or a Soto or Ohtani. We need Shaw, Cassie, Triontos, Smith, to all come up and be the next core and then build around them and put the pieces in place and then they will have sustained success year after year. We won’t see a World Series run until 227 or beyond. Sorry for such a long respond lol

11. The main blame rests with Jed. No, there shouldn't be a salary cap of any type with the Cubs, but other teams do much more with much less. Jed has NOT spent money wisely. Too many misses, too much star level money for average players. So does the owner have the responsibility to chase bad money with more?

12. Baseball has pushed away viewers by making the move to subscription television. They've pushed away local fans by making it too expensive to eat at the park. Scott Boras has a lot of the blame for making baseball an uneven contest. The players share that blame for thinking they should be millionaires for playing a game. The fans share that blame for continuing to support billionaires who have changed our national passtime into a circus with coddled primadonnas.

13. If they’re tight on money why were they going to buy a soccer team?

14. Sounds like a lot of BS about the richest family. Maybe they are just broke.

15. Matt here is a couple examples of intelligent spending, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees

16. Shocking: everybody loves spending somebody else’s money. It’s embarrassing

17. I'm not as hard on Tom as some, he has spent, they just have spent poorly.

18. He wasnt 10 years ago. But he is now. Along with Jed.

19. we needed a 3rd baseman last year and could of had a gold glove Matt Chapman, he would have been a great fit

20. Yes. I remember when the Ricketts promised money coming in barrels with them having their own network, concerts and other facilities at Wrigley. Just like corporate greed, they need to pay themselves first.

21. Lets a GM with a losing record spend his money
    Wants his team to play @ a level where Wrigley stays packed, no more
    Has the highest ticket prices
    Does not care about winning a WS
    Destroyed Cubs broadcasting
    YES, RICKETTS IS HOLDING THE CUBS BACK

22. ricketts gave the Cub a World Series win. And he invests the max in the team. To the luxury tax of $240 million. There are certainly flaws, but not spending isn't one of them. This narrative needs to stop. It's false & completely & totally misguided.

23. Maybe ricketts don't know anything about baseball.