Ricketts Family Annoyance Thread

[CT III]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

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[Indolent Reader]

I don't like the large pictures by the big red sign.  But my opinion doesn't count.

[CT III]

MYRON BAKER THE TOUCHDOWN MAKER!

[R-V]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts.

[morpheus]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts. folds of his Tronsuit.

Huey'd.

[Quality Start Machine]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts. folds of his Tronsuit.

Huey'd.

Cut him some slack. It's hard to keep up on memes when you're dead.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I'm as skeptical of the Ricketts as Morph is of Global Warming, but I'm of the opine that the media is playing of the new owners because they think it's decent copy.

If in July, the Ricketts are all over the radio pimping themselves about how they are greeting people in the stands and the Kalfonso Koriano story is on the back burner, then it will be creepy.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

Kalfonso Koriano

YOU SHALL NOT PASS.

[Brownie]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts.

Why isn't it realistic to note that I see some red flags? The Ricketts' are probably better than Andy McKenna, John Madigan, Don Grenesko, Larry Himes, Andy MacPhail, Stanton Cook, Dennis FitzSimons, Sam Zell, Crane Kenney, et. al., but do you want...

... family ownership?

... featuring many siblings?

... a little more politically involved than you might be comfortable with?

... with a son who claims to be an expert because he played in high school and "grew up" with the team (whether in the bleachers or as a ballboy)?

... with family members that has found itself befriending ballplayers? (Great, now the Cubs hold onto Dempster and Theriot because they're great guys, but the guys who don't hang with Tom Ricketts are let go)

... obsessed more about the condition of the stadium than the actual product in said stadium?

That all said, I'll see how it all plays out. I'm more annoyed by the coverage of them, but I am getting Ricketts Fatigue.

[Bort]

Kalfonso Koriano

YOU SHALL NOT PASS.

This.

[R-V]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts.

Why isn't it realistic to note that I see some red flags? The Ricketts' are probably better than Andy McKenna, John Madigan, Don Grenesko, Larry Himes, Andy MacPhail, Stanton Cook, Dennis FitzSimons, Sam Zell, Crane Kenney, et. al., but do you want...

... family ownership?

... featuring many siblings?

... a little more politically involved than you might be comfortable with?

... with a son who claims to be an expert because he played in high school and "grew up" with the team (whether in the bleachers or as a ballboy)?

... with family members that has found itself befriending ballplayers? (Great, now the Cubs hold onto Dempster and Theriot because they're great guys, but the guys who don't hang with Tom Ricketts are let go)

... obsessed more about the condition of the stadium than the actual product in said stadium?

That all said, I'll see how it all plays out. I'm more annoyed by the coverage of them, but I am getting Ricketts Fatigue.

I think that's really all it is. Cubs fans are stupid, newspaper editors know this, the Rickettses know this, so they're playing up the "we love the players!" and the "we love these fans and this ballpark" stuff because the dopes will eat it up like a reasonably priced piece of pizza sold outside the ballpark. I'm sure given enough time we'll have real reasons to hate them. But at this point there's no point to pre-emptively dislike them a la Chuck hating Soriano in 2007 and 2008.

[MAD]

Are people really annoyed by Ricketts already?  I was planning on at least giving him one season to completely fuck things up before I start calling for Mark Cuban to save us all.

I'm with CT on this one. Comparing the Rickettseses to the McClaskeys, while amusing, is about as realistic as Huey being able to fit a Bacci slice into the side pocket of his carpenter jorts.

Why isn't it realistic to note that I see some red flags? The Ricketts' are probably better than Andy McKenna, John Madigan, Don Grenesko, Larry Himes, Andy MacPhail, Stanton Cook, Dennis FitzSimons, Sam Zell, Crane Kenney, et. al., but do you want...

... family ownership?

... featuring many siblings?

... a little more politically involved than you might be comfortable with?

... with a son who claims to be an expert because he played in high school and "grew up" with the team (whether in the bleachers or as a ballboy)?

... with family members that has found itself befriending ballplayers? (Great, now the Cubs hold onto Dempster and Theriot because they're great guys, but the guys who don't hang with Tom Ricketts are let go)

... obsessed more about the condition of the stadium than the actual product in said stadium?

That all said, I'll see how it all plays out. I'm more annoyed by the coverage of them, but I am getting Ricketts Fatigue.

I think that's really all it is. Cubs fans are stupid, newspaper editors know this, the Rickettses know this, so they're playing up the "we love the players!" and the "we love these fans and this ballpark" stuff because the dopes will eat it up like a reasonably priced piece of pizza sold outside the ballpark. I'm sure given enough time we'll have real reasons to hate them. But at this point there's no point to pre-emptively dislike them a la Chuck hating Soriano in 2007 and 2008.

Okay I laughed.

[Waco Kid]

It's way too early to get worked up about the Ricketts ownership.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I think that's really all it is. Cubs fans are stupid, newspaper editors know this, the Rickettses know this, so they're playing up the "we love the players!" and the "we love these fans and this ballpark" stuff because the dopes will eat it up like a reasonably priced piece of pizza sold outside the ballpark. I'm sure given enough time we'll have real reasons to hate them. But at this point there's no point to pre-emptively dislike them a la Chuck hating Soriano in 2007 and 2008.

True.  The Ricketts are a cipher. We don't know what kind of owners they will be.

Soriano had a track record of being nothing but a DH when I started hating him.

[fiveouts]

Ricketts, in his interview on the Score yesterday, talked a lot about the need for the organization to move in a more statistically-inclined direction, mentioning SABRmetrics by name.

If he dumps Hendry and brings in a front office that understands the difference between OBP and OBGYN, he could beat his penis on a drum made of a Billy Goat head and I wouldn't care.