Rich people are the most dangerous
kind of blowhard. Not only do they say
“My way or the highway,” they can make it happen. Joe Ricketts qualifies as a rich blowhard.
He wants his politics one way and
his religion, too; the GOP and the Catholic Church can’t be too far to the
right for Joe Ricketts. He’s dumped birther
garbage on Barack Obama and would probably find a can of crap to pour on me if
he thought my views on the Church (color me liberal Catholic) ever had a chance
of being implemented. How nasty is the
77-year old family patriarch? A couple
of years ago, when reporters for two online news services he owned voted to
unionize, Ricketts shut down both sites.
So, the recent email dump showing
Old Joe at his honest worst should come as no surprise; the dance around the
mess by son and Cubs’ chairman Tom Ricketts is more disappointing, and
reminiscent of how actor Mel Gibson defended his father, another
archconservative Catholic. Only Gibson
doesn’t run a baseball team his parents put up $400 million to help buy.
Tom Ricketts has condemned the
words spoken but not the speaker. (The
MLB and Cubs’ websites are ignoring both as is the wont of certain ostriches.) That might work if this were the first time
with the old man, which it isn’t. The
first time involved Obama, and this time Muslims have been added to the
receiving end of Joe Ricketts’ ire. On
top of that is how the Cubs have acquired two players—Aroldis Chapman and
Addison Russell—who served or are serving suspensions due to domestic violence;
last season, they also went out and acquired infielder Daniel Murphy, who
thinks of homosexuality as a lifestyle choice.
This is what you call skating on thin ice.
And the temperature's rising.
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