Cub’s boss Todd Ricketts goes undercover to experience staff life at Wrigley field
Chicago Cubs’ stadium staff’s morale is high following some adjustments coming from the top management in the company. The big owners at the Cubs’ ground have called for providing new additional facilities to employees that have been a vital part of the
team’s support structure.
The parking lot attendants will be getting a brand new trailer and an award to reward various employees, has been created for the workers that have dedicated their lives to keeping the home stadium functional and clean.
A new show on CBS pits the co-owner of the Cubs, Todd Ricketts, as an undercover work seeker at the grounds, looking to place himself in the working environment at the facility. To say the least, the boss man was successful in infiltrating his stadium’s
crew ranks. He managed a hot dog vendor, operated the scoreboard, played his part as a maintenance worker and ended the ordeal with being a janitor.
Todd is the youngest member of the Ricketts family that purchased the Cubs in October 2009. He took a real turn for the part in the show by growing a beard, wearing glasses for the show and shifting across the stadium, into an average apartment. The owner
wasn’t able to last long at his job as he got fired by Darryl Wilson, who was supervising him during the whole show.
After the show, Wilson commented on Todd by saying “He said he could do anything. That ticked all of us off. We said, 'Who's this new guy, thinking he can do all of our jobs?”
Wilson further explained a moment in the show when he and the crew got together to place a prank on the owner of the club. He described the incident by saying, “We had a guy looking for the batter's box key for 45 minutes before a game started one time.
They said, 'Don't do that to Mark Dawson (Ricketts)'. Every other part-time guy, we've done that. They'll go from home plate to the hitting cage to the left-field bleachers, all the way to the scoreboard looking for the key. We've been doing that for 24 years”.
The show eventually ended with Todd making his appearance known to the employees. He and his siblings needed to improve the field and morale. They did so by installing a trailer and introducing a Wrigley Field award to a 28 year long employee, ‘Rocco’.
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