There is no bigger bunch of arrogant jerks then those that run the Chicago Cubs.  Their President, Crane Kenney , seems to embody  that sense of  entitlement that White Sox fans have come to loathe and despise from their north side rivals.

As you may have heard, the Cubs played a game of chicken with Florida and Arizona to see who would give them the best deal for a new spring training facility.  Arizona came out the winner, and in doing so will impose a surtax on tickets to all spring training games in the area, not just the Cubs.

This has the White Sox and D-backs upset because they are getting penalized for the Cubs new digs.

In fact, the Cubs facility at Ho Ho Kam Park in Mesa probably isn't that bad, but Kenney thinks Cub fans deserve the best accommodations possible because they could just go elsewhere to see their heroes play.  Says Crane: "If I go to Arizona and I'm a Cubs fan and I want to see my team, I can choose to either go to Goodyear, Glendale or one of these really neat facilities to see the Cubs play the Reds, or the Indians or the Dodgers or the White Sox. Or I can go to HoHoKam, which is less of a facility. "So what I worry about in some ways is that people coming to Arizona, (because) it's so easy to get to the Cubs games anywhere they play, that they start attending the away games, because our facility has fallen behind some of the newer stadiums."

Is that not just the height of overstatement or what?  As it is, Cub fans flock to an almost 100 year-old ballpark and tinkle in horse troughs and don't complain.  This would be the same as saying that Cub fans would rather go to newer ballparks in St. Louis, Cincinnati or Milwaukee then go to Wrigley Field.  It's bull crap.  Kenney ought to just say it: "Everyone else has a new park and we want one too."

Certainly if HoHoKam Park were a dump, this would be a valid discussion.  But it is not a dump and bottom line, the Cubs are looking for more seats because they have the best spring training attendance.  Cub fans don't travel to Peoria or Scottsdale or Glendale because the Cubs play in a hideous facility, they travel there because they can't get tickets in Mesa.  This is a windfall for the Cubs and like every other business on earth they want to take advantage of it.  More seats and more tickets sold, means more money to be spent on players like Milton Bradley and Kevin Gregg.

This has nothing to do with the fans and everything to do with making money.

Kenney knows Cub fans would watch their team play home games in a landfill.  But that won't stop the Cubs from building a new ballpark in Arizona and sharing part of the expense with the 13 other teams that train there.  After all, when you are the Cubs, you don't give a damn about what other people might think.