Ricketts: New Wrigley Field revenue needed for Cubs to stay

By STEFANO ESPOSITO and FRAN SPIELMAN

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Cubs’ Chairman Tom Ricketts spoke so softly Wednesday when he uttered the dreaded “M” word, that some in the audience wondered if they’d heard him correctly.

“I’m not sure how anyone is going to stop any signs in the outfield,” said Ricketts as he made his first public sales pitch for a planned $300 million Wrigley Field renovation. “If it comes to the point that we don’t have the ability to do what we need to do in our outfield, then we’re going to have to consider moving.”

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