Ricketts took over the organization and achieved the goal many thought was years down the road of winning a World Series and the ultimate goal here is to get back to the World Series and win another. The Ricketts family also spent hundreds of millions to renovate Wrigley Field for our fans, which was in bad shape when they purchased the team. We offered some very competitive contract extensions to our top guys, and while they might still be back we will also be active in free agency this offseason. However from 2015-2020 the Cubs frequently had one of the highest payrolls in baseball. In regards to the organization and team, I understand your frustration with the organization since our 2016 World Series season. To collect 1 million Chicago Cubs baseball cards is no easy feat and I’m very interested to hear about your journey to collect the last 330,000 Cubs cards. I’m happy to hear how passionate you are about our Chicago Cubs. Mostly form letter with a couple sentences acknowledging my letter. Evan did reply, and it was about what I would expect. Ricketts: We want Sammy Sosa welcomed back to the Cubs family. Cubs fans deserve better than how we’ve been treated since 2016. But I will not spend my hard earned money on Cubs season tickets. And I will continue to love the Chicago Cubs with all my heart. I will continue to attend a few Cubs games each season. I will celebrate the milestone at Wrigley Field. I will continue to collect my Cubs baseball cards with my goal to reach one million. I understand the business of baseball, and my decision to pass on season tickets is not directly tied to the loss of our favorite stars: Javier Baez, Anthony Rizzo, and Kris Bryant. While I am enjoying the current Cubs winning streak, it’s too little too late. Prices for the average family continued to rise and they were squeezed out. Season ticket benefits were being taken away. More and more the everyday Cubs fan was being pushed aside. More and more, the Cubs organization seemed to chase the almighty dollar catering to corporate sponsors. Ricketts was fan friendly anticipating delivering us the long-awaited World Series trophy.Īnd then something changed. We Cubs fans were on cloud nine with what Theo and Jed and built. There was so much excitement around the team when I signed up in 2015 or 2016. Sadly, Cubs season tickets are no longer among a bucket list item for me. When I signed up for the season ticket list it was a bucket list item to be a Chicago Cubs season ticket holder despite living in Wisconsin among cheeseheads and only getting to a small handful of Cubs games each season. As of this letter my current count is near 670,000 Cubs cards. In December 2017, I began a pursuit to collect one million Chicago Cubs baseball cards. The Cubs organization has been the love of my life (Cubs are now second to my wife – my apologies) since I was a young child hearing Harry Caray and Steve Stone on the broadcasts and family members quizzing me on the names of players like Scott Sanderson (RIP), Steve Trout, and Leon Durham. This was my unedited response to the Cubs ticket department. For some reason the emotions of Cubs baseball and their poor showing over the past four years washed over me. I read the email and was going to trash it with no response. What are your thoughts on connecting to discuss Cubs season tickets in more detail? Since it is highly likely that your spot will come up on the waitlist this Fall, I’d love to connect to talk through the process and answer any questions you may have. I saw you did not complete the survey we sent out regarding your interest in Cubs season tickets. Much to my surprise, I received an email (and later that day a postcard)from the Cubs ticket department in September 2021 essentially saying that my turn could be coming up soon. Still, I found myself at 22,000 in the Cubs season ticket line. Out of 60,000 fans on the waiting list, I probably only moved a couple hundred spots those first two years.Ī Chicago Cubs baseball dynasty never came to fruition, and heading into the 2021 season it didn’t look like the Cubs would compete for another title as that window with our favorite stars was quickly closing. Needless to say that Cubs season ticket waiting list didn’t budge an inch. The Cubs made a run to the NLCS in 2015 and top prospects like Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, and Jorge Soler had arrrived to Chicago.
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