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Here's a quote from today's edition of The Athletic: You know what happened to me? Tom Ricketts told The Scores morning team of Mike Mulligan and David Haugh on Thursday. We had the lowest-rated panel last year so the guys cut us. (loud laughter from the hosts) Its true. I think people would rather watch the mascot play bingo than listen to the owners speak. Like the fact is that we had a low-rated panel, it got kind of dull over the years, because a lot of the questions were the same. And its funny to me, I saw a headline, somebody wrote like, Ricketts family cancels popular panel at Cubs Convention and the fact is we were the lowest-rated panel. So if people want us to come back next year, fill out the forms, wed be happy to do it again, but we just thought we were boring people, honestly. (more host laughter) Were happy to do it again. I like talking to people. I think Im the most accessible owner in sports. I talk to people all the time. I answer my emails." I am making a public invitation: please come here to North Side Baseball for questions from a collection of your most hard core fans. Because we would *love* to chat and we have a few questions for you. If you're up for it, please email me at timdstuart@gmail.com . It's become a yearly tradition. Some blustery winter day a couple months after the baseball season is over, we see new footage of the swing changes Jason Heyward has been working on. Everyone argues over if the swing looks any better, what's wrong with it, and, actually, if it's changed at all. The season starts. Eventually there are signs of promise. Everything goes downhill from there. We all agree to never speak of Heyward being fixed again. The next season starts. Heyward goes on a tear for a week or two, and, inevitably, people proclaim that Heyward is fixed. Does it ever work out for those people? There was a time not long ago when Jake Arrieta was the undisputed ace of the Cubs' pitching staff. In 2015, he won 22 games, posted a 1.77 ERA, won the Cy Young award, pitched a no-hitter, ...