Column: With Wrigley Field at full capacity, fans finally return to the stands — and Chairman Tom Ricketts takes it all in with them: ‘I think for everyone that comes here, it’s a special experience’

“But hopefully the CBA will get resolved, as it has been in the past,” he said. “It’ s definitely a variable, but it’s hard to handicap what it all means. Any team going into next year is going to be careful on expenses, just because you may end up with a situation where you have a new CBA, but for now we’re just assuming that it will work itself out and we’ll be back in the game next year.”