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MESA, Ariz. - There was little chance Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts was going to change anyone's mind about his father's reputation when he addressed the team and the media Monday morning at Sloan Park.

The damage was done, and Joe Ricketts' words couldn't be power-washed away like those chalk-written messages from Cubs fans on the bleacher walls outside Wrigley Field during the 2016 World Series.

But Tom Ricketts tried his best anyway, suggesting his father's racist and Islamophobic emails didn't mean he actually