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.

“I don’t think fans should spend all their time thinking about which team has more money or how much they’re spending," Ricketts said during his radio appearance. “It just becomes a big narrative that ...

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 ...

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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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Sammy Sosa jogged onto ... instead of Wrigley Field. Sosa and the Chicago Cubs are back together after the slugger returned to the team’s annual fan convention on Friday.