The info that's emerging - that it was Joe calling the shots in the negotiations, his bragging (on camera) that it was the fact that the Cubs could sell out the ballpark with bad teams that attracted him to the idea of buying the team - is just the tip of the iceberg. As the relationship with the city and fans goes South (as it's already doing) Joe is going to be less and less likely to want to see any of his money spent on the organization apart from the bare minimum to keep the fans hooked.
The problem is, Tom Ricketts can't extract himself from the stink. It's obvious Joe and Pete are involved intimately in the financial side, and the growing ill will on the part of the fans is going to further poison the relationship with the ownership. It's not so much a question of the SuperPAC money as the fact that the PAC was set up to "limit government spending" - and you have Ricketts insisting that the Cubs get hundreds of millions in government spending for themselves. This is the meme you increasingly see reported in the press, and on top of the not insignificant fact that Obama is a Chicago politician and Chicago is overwhelmingly Democratic the odds of any significant public funding for the renovations are increasingly slim. And if the Ricketts don't get their publicly funded Wrigley upgrades - which is where they saw the dollar signs flashing - they aren't going to spend heavily on trivial things like payroll.
It's no wonder Joe sent Laura to the Kerry Wood retirement festivities, because they're trying to shift the focus off this whole debacle as much as possible. But I doubt it's going to work.