Up with Chris Hayes - the Ricketts billionaire
and the fall out.
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and with the upgrades the stadium is nicer necessitating a raise in ticket prices, hence more money in the owners pockets. Something wrong with this picture.
I'd like to go watch some of the games but the price is way out of my reach. Sure we have the money to buy a couple tickets now and then but I simply see a better return on my money spent if I spend it otherwise. 
Being a White Sox fan that's not too much to ask for. I haven't been in the dump since 1972. I hear they have some flush toilets now. 
The fun here is its old man Ricketts whose throwing the inheritance money around...but it's also his money that bought the team. His kids are the ones scrambling. There's one daughter whose been cited as an Obama bundler and Tom...who "runs" the team whose been trying to swing a deal with Rahm. In a season where the Cubbies look like a Class A team (White Sox aren't that much better) and more people are showing up at ballgames dressed at empty seats (yesterday's Cubs/Sox game at Wrigley WASN'T a sell-out), this bad PR doesn't help. The Cubbie Ricketts backed off this story faster than the old man did.
The bottom line is the old man has an itchy check writing finger...he wants to throw his money around with the big boys. He just found the wrong grifters...but eventually he'll throw some money into some attack on this administration or Democrats in general.
The interesting and untold story here how this big money being thrown around by the rushpublican superpacs and the campaign "consultants" and other slime merchants who see a quick buck to be made here with a "slick" campaign.
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