As of the end of 2007, the Chicago National League Ball Club will no longer be under the aegis of the treacherous and evil Tribune Company. Finally the team will be available to the highest bidder who is not Tribune Company. Already names as varied as Bill Murray and George Will have been brought up in terms of potential buyers, though it's unlikely that either of them have $600 million lying around. My preference is for Mark Cuban, the eccentric owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. His name has been linked to any possible Cubs sale for a couple of years now, largely based on his own words, though he always denied actually approaching Tribune, and Tribune always denied any interest in spinning the team off. Well, all o that has changed now, because Tribune has been sold to real estate magnate Sam Zell, and as a result of that ....
THE CUBS ARE FOR SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CUBS ARE FOR SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, it would be need if a consortium of prominent Chicagoans - Murray, Will, the Cusacks, etc - could pool their money together to make a run at the franchise. But at this point, all that matters is that the owner will not have "Tribune" in his or her name. Unless the new owner's name happens to be John Tribune or Tribune Jones or something, of course.
Now watch the Cubs win the World Series in the team's last year under the Yoke O'Tribune. Eh, I could live with that.
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