Who knows? No matter, it’s safe to say the decisions last month by Sosa to semi-apologize for his non-PED-related “mistakes,” and for Chairman Tom Ricketts to just let Sammy be Sammy despite his flaws ...

Sammy, the opium of the people. Sosa and Ricketts, the team’s chairman, need each other. The amazing thing is that they didn’t realize their common ground earlier. But Friday was enough.

Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts speaks to fans at the team’s annual baseball convention Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photos Share Sammy Sosa decided he’d been away for ...

Ricketts expects the Cubs’ 2025 payroll likely will end up “CBTish, más o menos (more or less).” “But we don’t get too specific because it’s a little bit of a competitive disadvantage ...

when the team's chairman, Thomas Ricketts, announced that both Sosa and Lee, 49, would be inducted into the team's hall in 2025, per the MLB. “It was like I was running to right field,” Sosa ...

Both Sosa and former first baseman Derrek Lee will be 2025 inductees, the team announced during its Cubs Convention on Friday ...

When Sammy Sosa ... That’s one of the reasons that I (did it). Twenty-one years (away). … It was like a perfect storm, you know what I mean? I made the statement. I don’t know if I was expecting a ...

A month after Sammy Sosa released ... left the team in 2004. Sosa's apology letter finally spurred the Cubs to open the door to their former superstar. Team owner Tom Ricketts had insisted in ...

When Sosa was introduced on stage as the newest member of the Cubs’ Hall of Fame, the fans rose from their seats, screaming his name. He ran across the stage, and danced to the song, “Let Me Clear My ...

CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts anticipates ... the Cubs invited Sammy Sosa back to their convention and will induct him into their team Hall of Fame. Sosa’s open letter to ...