Biernutz
11-08-2008, 08:18 PM
Dave Heuschkel (http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/for_the_record/posts?blogger_id=580575)
07:29 PM ET 11.08.2008
SI.COMSam Zell, the motorcycle-riding owner of the Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Cubs, talks with a potty mouth and has been known to drop F-bombs and MF-missiles in crowded rooms. So I wonder what he'll say if and when baseball commissioner Bud Selig tells him that he can't sell his team to the highest bidder.
That highest bidder could be Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He reportedly submitted a bid of $1.3 billion that is said to be the highest. But it may as well be the lowest because Selig doesn't want the brash and outspoken Cuban as an owner, a baseball source told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Zero chance" is how the source put it.
Given that Selig has already rigged the sale of one baseball team and he's allergic to controversy, something Cuban has been known to create, I'd say the chance is less than zero.
Look, I'm not sure whether Cuban would be a good owner for the championship-starved Cubbies. All I know is he turned the woeful Mavs into a winning franchise after purchasing a controlling interest in the team in 2000. And he'd want to win the World Series as bad as any Cubs fan. Cuban would spare no expense to bring the long-awaited title to Wrigleyville, and that has Selig and other owners more scared than seeing Cuban screaming at umpires on SportsCenter.
http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/for_the_record/posts/21622
07:29 PM ET 11.08.2008
SI.COMSam Zell, the motorcycle-riding owner of the Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Cubs, talks with a potty mouth and has been known to drop F-bombs and MF-missiles in crowded rooms. So I wonder what he'll say if and when baseball commissioner Bud Selig tells him that he can't sell his team to the highest bidder.
That highest bidder could be Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He reportedly submitted a bid of $1.3 billion that is said to be the highest. But it may as well be the lowest because Selig doesn't want the brash and outspoken Cuban as an owner, a baseball source told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Zero chance" is how the source put it.
Given that Selig has already rigged the sale of one baseball team and he's allergic to controversy, something Cuban has been known to create, I'd say the chance is less than zero.
Look, I'm not sure whether Cuban would be a good owner for the championship-starved Cubbies. All I know is he turned the woeful Mavs into a winning franchise after purchasing a controlling interest in the team in 2000. And he'd want to win the World Series as bad as any Cubs fan. Cuban would spare no expense to bring the long-awaited title to Wrigleyville, and that has Selig and other owners more scared than seeing Cuban screaming at umpires on SportsCenter.
http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/for_the_record/posts/21622