So let's examine those poor unfortunate owners. Let's pretend for a moment that owners only manage to break even every year, they don't, but let's pretend. Ricketts bought the Cubs for 900M in 2009. In 2023, Forbes valued the Cubs at 4.1 billion dollars. That is 455.55% growth in 14 years, or an annual return of 32.5%. Basically they double their investment every 3 years even if they don't receive $1 in profit from the operations of the franchise. So forgive me if I'm not overly sympathetic to poor Tom Ricketts.