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It is quite possible that silver spoon Todd Ricketts’ daddy, Joe Ricketts, never taught his son about being humble. Bold proclamations sometimes bite you back.

“We’re going to run into these guys in the playoffs,” Todd Ricketts said at a White House celebration at the end of June. “And you’ll come down and you’ll see them crumble.”

Last night the Ricketts’ Cubs team dropped 4-of-5 games in excruciating fashion and were bounced from the post-season after an 11-to-1 loss. The Cubs crumbled and never really put up much of a fight. The final score of the series was Dodgers 28 — Cubs 8.

“…The [Ricketts family] better be careful, they have a lot to hide!”, Trump once tweeted. Is that like saying people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones?

Hopefully Ricketts is hiding. Be seen and not heard is usually good advice for a team owner’s son who sat in the front row at Wrigley and was often seen on camera with a beer in-hand. Then there is Anthony Rizzo, Mr. Respect-Me, who batted .059 in the NLCS series with no RBIs and 8 strikeouts out of 17 at-bats which is a 47.1% K rate. You must earn respect Anthony. Continue reading →

111 days, 111 questions.  In no order whatsoever. (Minus Winterfest and the GM meetings, it’s about 111 days to Pitchers and Catchers report).

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