Chicago Cubs Proprietor Tom Ricketts
Trolled By 6-Yr-Previous Child
… You are Low cost!!!
Revealed
TMZSports.com
Chicago Cubs proprietor Thomas Ricketts is used to getting an earful from followers about his baseball workforce … however now he is even drawing the ire of LITTLE KIDS — ‘trigger a six-year-old youngster known as him low cost straight to his face!
TMZ Sports activities obtained the hilarious clip shot final weekend on the workforce’s annual fan summit known as “Cubs Convention.” Within the clip, Ricketts, proprietor and workforce chairman, was making the rounds signing autographs and chatting it up with supporters … when he encountered the disgruntled younger boy.
We’re instructed the plan was for the child to ask Ricketts to signal a bat inscribed with “The cheapest owner in Baseball” … although TR clearly did not play alongside.
After ensuring he heard appropriately, the 61-year-old proprietor requested who his dad was, understanding the kid was most likely instructed to do that by his pops. Sadly, the video cuts off earlier than we see how the interplay ended.
The younger supporter just isn’t alone in his criticism of the Cubs honcho. Followers grew irritated not too long ago when he stated they could not spend cash like their New York or L.A. counterparts.
“They think somehow we have all these dollars that the Dodgers have or the Mets have or the Yankees have and we just keep it,” he stated. “Which isn’t true at all. What happens is we try to break even every year, and that’s about it.”
Regardless of the proprietor’s declare, many aren’t shopping for the reason … particularly contemplating the workforce is valued at round $4.225 BILLION. In line with stories, Ricketts additionally has a private internet price of round $2.3 billion.
We’ll see if the call-out conjures up the Cubs to open up their wallets much more — besides, with many of the big-name free brokers already off the board, followers might have to attend till subsequent season!
