{"id":15862,"date":"2009-11-02T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_cubs_owner_feels_fans_pain_promises_relief\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:01:37","slug":"new_cubs_owner_feels_fans_pain_promises_relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15862","title":{"rendered":"New Cubs Owner Feels Fans&#39; Pain, Promises Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke: How do you become a millionaire? Have $1 billion \u201d\u201d then buy the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>But Tom Ricketts, who recently bought the storied franchise and its famous ballpark, Wrigley Field, for almost $900 million \u201d\u201d the most ever paid for a baseball team \u201d\u201d says he thinks it&#8217;s going to be &#8220;a fair investment over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t buy sports teams just because you&#8217;re looking at the investment side of it,&#8221; Ricketts tells NPR&#8217;s Scott Simon. &#8220;We&#8217;re fans, too. And we feel the pain of the fans; we understand the magic that is Wrigley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=114283287\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke: How do you become a millionaire? Have $1 billion \u201d\u201d then buy the Chicago Cubs. But Tom Ricketts, who recently bought the storied franchise and its famous ballpark, Wrigley Field, for almost $900 million \u201d\u201d the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15862\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}