David Haugh: Cubs' rash of off-field controversies could give team the motivation it needs

Any day now, the conversation about the Cubs will return to baseball.

Right? Please?

At least that was the hope when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts arrived Monday in Arizona for his annual spring training session. Ricketts had to awkwardly apologize for his father's racist emails, answer for his new broadcast partner's politics and address his shortstop's domestic-violence suspension, among other non-baseball issues.

Ricketts always resisted the lovable losers label the Cubs outgrew, but surely he never envisioned his team