Ricketts finally gets it....

   Forget the image of Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts looking like a captive and forget the sound of unbearably cheesy music playing in the background as king Cub made his case for the Wrigley renovations to finally move forward.   This is a great day for Cubs fans because the grand poobah of Cubdom has finally learned how things get done in the wild west known as Chicago.  Tom Ricketts tried to be a nice guy, he tried to placate the rooftop owners.  For his trouble, Ricketts was peppered by spitballs in a room full of rowdy kids.  Only in Chicago could a group of people be granted a supposedly iron clad agreement to profit off of someone else's product.  Someone else said it best when they said Tom Ricketts hasn't been mean enough.  Nice guys get eaten in Chicago.  What Tom Ricketts needs to do is to scorch the very earth that is blocking his path to making Wrigley Field the money making entity he envisions it to be.  My hope is that Tom Ricketts isn't just issuing more empty threats.  The entities that get what they want in Chicago do more than talk, they demolish the obstacles in their path.  You have a mayor who can be a potential ally Mister Ricketts, use him and his uncanny ability to get what he wants when he wants it.  And if the roof top owners want to fight, squeeze them until they break.  It's the way things are done in this city.  It's time for the Cubs to get what they want.  It's time for their park to be a revenue making machine like they have in Fenway.  It's time for the Cubs to get paid what they deserve from their TV and radio deals.  You look around and it seems like everyone is making more money than the Cubs are on their product.  The future  of your legacy isn't romanticism or nostalgia or misguided loyalty Mister Ricketts.  Two things should have shaken out here.  Ricketts should have put the shovels in the ground and had the construction trucks rolling towards Clark and Addison as soon as the city signed off on the proposal to bring Wrigley Field into the modern era.  Either that or Ricketts should've have used the carrot of a Rosemont stadium to make his intentions clear.  Nothing gets people's attention more than the possibility of dwindling property values and the prospect of an economic depression once one of Wrigleyville's most lucrative landmarks leaves a crater in the middle of Lakeview.  This is your chance to silence your detractors Mister Ricketts, don't stop now.