Cubs' Tom Ricketts says most revenue goes right back into team
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"Here's something I hope baseball fans understand," Ricketts said. "Most baseball owners don't take money out of their team. They raise all the revenue they can from tickets and media rights, and they take out their expenses, and they give all the money left to their GM to spend.
"The league itself does not make a lot of cash. I think there is a perception that we hoard cash and we take money out and it's all sitting in a pile we've collected over the years. Well, it isn't. Because no one anticipated a pandemic. No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past. Every team has to figure out a way to plug the hole."
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Understanding slightly how business works, I get the plausibility of this argument (as I have seen this very thing with friends who own businesses). But perception says otherwise. And without the owners opening their books, perception is going to win out and people are going to continue to see them as billionaire cash hoarders sitting on piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.