Cubs owners do amazing about-face on Donald Trump

[Lebam in LA]

Last edited Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cubs-owners-do-amazing-about-face-on-donald-trump-213653704.html

Even for the Chicago Cubs – who went from worst to first in two years – this is a stunning turnaround. Joe and Marlene Ricketts, the heads of the family that owns the Cubs and the parents of Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, have gone from spending millions of dollars to thwart Donald Trump’s potential Republican nomination to spending millions of dollars to support Trump’s presidential bid.

The Ricketts – Joe is the founder of Ameritrade – contributed $6 million to an anti-Trump super PAC over the past year but have now pledged $1 million to Trump’s campaign, according to the Wall Street Journal.


After this tweet by the ConMan: I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016

Sounds like blackmail to me

More at site

[TeamPooka]

1. Fuck Ameritrade and fuck the Cubs. Fuck Ricketts too.

[Skoods]

2. Definitely

Rooting against them in the playoffs now

[oasis]

3. Screw the Cubs. Get knocked out of the playoffs early and

lose revenue for your deplorable boss.

[TSIAS]

5. I'm sure they're the only pro-Trump MLB owners

I'd wager an overwhelming majority of each team's players and owners are for Trump.

[oasis]

6. Screw the NFL Arizona Cardinals too. They boasted about donating

to the campaign of racist Gov. Jan Brewer in her last election. Screw Tom Brady and the Pats while we're at it. When team owners or players openly support lying, racists politicans, I am against them having success in their endeavors.

It's just my personal thing.

[Jamaal510]

4. That's too bad, but

there are probably other MLB owners who support his campaign, too. Many (if not most sports team owners) are staunch RWers.