Tom Ricketts
acknowledged his disappointment in the Cubs’ performance thus far, but the team’s chairman did not divulge any plans as the trade deadline looms.
“Obviously we are not happy with the way the season has gone so far. We just haven’t won enough games. We haven’t played good baseball. And that’s tough,” Ricketts told me after addressing a group of students Thursday morning at the Inter-American Magnet School in Chicago.
Ricketts appears to remain undaunted.
“We’ve got to think long-term. We’ve got to keep thinking about what we have to do to invest in the system, and focus on the things I can have an impact on. On that front, I think we’re moving forward.”
Overheard:
As his team prepares to invade Wrigley Field, Sox owner
Jerry Reinsdorf
already feels like a winner. He was one of the recent recipients of a Jefferson Award, regarded as the “Nobel Prize for public service.”
“I was accepting it on behalf of the teams and the staff and the players, because they are the ones who do all of the good things. I get the power end of it.”
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