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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The Lovable Reunion - Tom Ricketts on breaking Chicago Cubs curse, World Series rain delay & celebration | Ross & Rizzo

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Sports News, Football, Basketball

4.110.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are joined by Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts on The Lovable Reunion to look back at the team’s 2016 World Series title over the Cleveland Indians. The trio discuss Jon Lester recruiting David Ross, Theo Epstein’s first meeting with the team, the morning after Game 7 of the World Series, Tom meeting his wife in the bleachers at Wrigley Field, and much more.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

I think hobby sneakily was a lot of people's favorite player on that team.

0:08.7

Like, I talk to people.

0:09.7

They love it.

0:10.1

I mean, I cried when we traded him.

0:12.0

Like, great story.

0:13.3

Like, we're out on a family vacation.

0:16.4

And, you know, everybody's getting traded.

0:19.7

It's the red wedding that whole week. It was awful. Like, but the red wedding. I never heard that. That's good. That's what Randy Bush called it. And I'm really just down on the whole thing. It's just kind of a bummer. And I walk back to the family. And I'm like, hey, we just traded hobby and uh and then and then uh and then uh

0:40.3

and then one of my kids like who we get I'm like oh this first runner named Pete pro Armstrong

0:44.0

so my son Nick goes oh that dude that kid's up on my couch no way like yeah so it turns

0:51.0

out PCA is friends with one of Nick's friends and literally like spent spring break on his couch like the year before.

0:57.0

Wait a minute. What was going on that week? We got to we got to nix this trade immediately. No. Yeah, right. Cancel. Cancel. that's hilarious. Abort. Abort. No shit.

1:05.5

That's a good story. You got anywhere to be?

1:07.8

No, I'm all good. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's go.

1:10.9

All right. Game on. It's on Riz. Riz's got to run the show.

1:13.5

This is going to be? No, I'm all good. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's go. All right. Game on. It's on Riz. Riz's got to run the show. This is going to be the only intro I read off the paper because I can't mess this up because you're too important. So Anthony Rizzo, David Ross. Tom Ricketts kills me to say Tom.

1:34.9

Welcome back to another episode of the Love Will Reunion.

1:40.0

Today we have our most important guests of them all, the man and family, who had a vision that started as a dream and along the way built something bigger than baseball, a culture,

1:44.9

a family, and a team that people everywhere could believe in, and delivered a moment that

1:49.1

Cubs fans will never forget. It's hard for me to call you anything other than Mr. Ricketts,

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