Ricketts Family Annoyance Thread

[flannj]

Tommy boy was interviewed on Chicago Tonight last night.
The interviewer asked some pretty direct questions, you guys can debate the sincerity and feasibility of his answers.
Or not.
15 minutes of annoyance.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

DPD.

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

In case anyone's yet to see a visual of this:


Where's your Bronco Nagurski now?!?!

Will those lousy Rickettseses never learn?!?!?!

[Brownie]

Tommy boy was interviewed on Chicago Tonight last night.
The interviewer asked some pretty direct questions, you guys can debate the sincerity and feasibility of his answers.
Or not.
15 minutes of annoyance.

Ricketts acts like he doesn't understand discounted cash flow and time value of money. Maybe he doesn't understand it. But that would be very strange.

The city will get only $16MM or so every year for the next 35 years, but the city will be the big loser if we see any inflation.

He should set up a holding company for Wrigley Field separate from the Cubs (something like Wrigley Field Proeprties, LLC), and then sell preferred stock or a bond to raise the $300MM. What kind of coupon rate would make such a bond attractive? Supposing that Tom Ricketts is right and Wrigley Field will be the moneymaking machine, these added cash flows could service interest on the bond and maybe even pay for some players.

[Yeti]

DPD.

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

In case anyone's yet to see a visual of this:


Where's your Bronco Nagurski now?!?!

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

[Oleg]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

By the time they use padding, they're too old for Yeti.

[Yeti]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

[Bort]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

I would imagine a lot of impacts in football are not too pleasant.

[Yeti]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

I would imagine a lot of impacts in football are not too pleasant.

Your mom isn't too pleasant in the mornings

[Bort]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

I would imagine a lot of impacts in football are not too pleasant.

Your mom isn't too pleasant in the mornings

I haven't spoken to her in over a decade. How is she doing? Is she back on her meds? Drinking?

[Richard Chuggar]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

I would imagine a lot of impacts in football are not too pleasant.

Your mom isn't too pleasant in the mornings

I haven't spoken to her in over a decade. How is she doing? Is she back on her meds? Drinking?

She lives in Horner Park

[Yeti]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

I would imagine a lot of impacts in football are not too pleasant.

Your mom isn't too pleasant in the mornings

I haven't spoken to her in over a decade. How is she doing? Is she back on her meds? Drinking?

Pretty good. A freak in the sack, but just a little fussy in the morning. Strip, not gross, DiP.

[R-V]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

So you have spent time in an asylum.

[Internet Apex]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

So you have spent time in an asylum.

I spent about a week in one when I was 17. No padded room for me. But one kid tried to break his wrist on a tile floor and they put him in a quiet room for a while. No word on the padding that I can recall but both wrists were intact when he came out. /sadsackapex

[Richard Chuggar]

Irony that the "You're in good hands with Allstate" logo is right where some player is going to die from hitting the wall?

You realize that's padding, right?

You ever inadvertently ran into padding on a wall? It's not too pleasant.

(but "die" is an exaggeration. I'll give you that)

So you have spent time in an asylum.

I spent about a week in one when I was 17. No padded room for me. But one kid tried to break his wrist on a tile floor and they put him in a quiet room for a while. No word on the padding that I can recall but both wrists were intact when he came out. /sadsackapex lived in Indiana.