Column: Tom Ricketts’ annual speech at Chicago Cubs spring training was delayed — here are highlights from his previous ones

2019: Ricketts apologizes for the remarks of his father, Joe Ricketts, after a trove of Joe’s racist emails are leaked. “I wanted to let (players) know if there was anything that we had done in our organization that ever made them uncomfortable or something we had missed, to let me know,” Tom says. Meanwhile, the Cubs’ free-spending days apparently are over. “We don’t have any more (money),” he says. Maddon is let go after the season, and after the Cubs miss the playoffs for the first time since 2014, fans are getting antsy.