With the end of the regular season came the final days of being able to watch the Chicago Cubs on the public airwaves - WGN and WLS. They're not the first team to create its own cable network, but their decision to partner with noted conservative broadcast company Sinclair Broadcasting is worth examining through a microscope, especially because the announcement came a day after tsplinter.com published a trove of Joe Ricketts' unambiguously racist emails, and shady fundraising history for conservative causes - the man who provided the approximately $400 million for his son to purchase the team in 2009.

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