Anyone with the ability to buy the Chicago Cubs is going to have lots of money, but the Cubs are apparently no toy for new owner Tom Ricketts. He plans to hammer checks on those pinstriped boys’ backs, and here’s how he’s going to do it: The always-reliable blind loyalty of Chicago Cubs fans.
Cubs Fans’ Blind Loyalty Set To Make Insanely Rich Dude Even More Rich
↵Yahoo!’s Josh Peter has the breakdown, which includes the not-at-all-surprising-but-still-sort-of-depressing-when-you-think-about-it nugget that 3.1 million Cubs fans showed up in 2006, when the team was 66-96.
↵Lesser known fact: Over half of those people couldn’t tell you what the infield fly rule is. But who cares? Their money makes free agency splurges possible. It’s win-win, really.
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