Chicago Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Trolled By 6-Year-Old Kid ... You're Cheap!!!
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Chicago Cubs owner Thomas Ricketts is used to getting an earful from fans about his baseball team ... but now he's even drawing the ire of LITTLE KIDS -- 'cause a six-year-old child called him cheap straight to his face!
TMZ Sports obtained the hilarious clip shot last weekend at the team's annual fan summit called "Cubs Convention." In the clip, Ricketts, owner and team chairman, was making the rounds signing autographs and chatting it up with supporters ... when he encountered the disgruntled young boy.
We're told the plan was for the kid to ask Ricketts to sign a bat inscribed with "The cheapest owner in Baseball" ... though TR obviously didn't play along.
Celebrity Scramble Guess Who!
Hidden behind this funny-lookin' photo is someone from Indianapolis who was on "The Bachelor" franchise. Given the clues, can you handle this mashed-up pic and guess the celeb who's celebrating his 33rd birthday today?
Suit n' all, he may've looked prim and proper getting out of the limo for Becca Kufrin's season of "The Bachelorette", but that didn't stop him from gettin' dirty on the football field back in the day.
He had his own Netflix series which featured celebs, like Michael Sam and Gus Kenworthy, and this handsome fella added "father" to his long list of accomplishments last year.
Ready, set, guess the unknown star!
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