Tom Ricketts Sat Down With CNBC And Discussed His Plans To Never Spend Enough To Truly Compete With The Dodgers

I am ready to be excited about the Cubs season. I like the makeup of the team. Ricketts is right. The Cubs should win the NL Central this year. On paper it looks like the Cubs should be in the playoffs for the first time since 2018. And that is the frustrating part of this clip. The Cubs have been building towards this for several years. A piece or two at a time. They finally have a team that looks like it can compete at the top of the National League and then instead of trying to give yourself a real chance by signing a guy like Alex Bregman, Ricketts decided that winning the Central and hoping for a lucky October was good enough. Silver medals over silverware. 

It's disheartening. It's been a long time since the Cubs won 90+ games. We've been waiting for the Cubs to be good for a long time. So long that the actual core of this team is now kinda old. Swanson is 31, Happ is 30, Seiya is 30, Shota is 31, Steele is 29, Taillon is 33, and our new super star is 28, but he's only signed for a year. If this year and next year isn't the window to really compete for a World Series then when is it? At this rate the Cubs will be in another rebuild before we know it. So all this talk about winning the division every year falls flat. The Ricketts bought the Cubs in 2009. The Cubs have won the division twice since then. The NL Central isn't exactly the NL East either. They're the financial giant in a division of small market teams and the Ricketts still can't consistently figure it out. 

If the Cubs don't re-sign Kyle Tucker then they truly don't care about winning or the fans. They'll just be the northside Reinsdorfs, but with the crown jewel of baseball as their stadium so the Cubs will continue to print money.