John Canning Jr. to buy the Cubs for $1 Billion?

[cbbryan]

Apparently he's in bed w/ Selig and is Selig's preference to buy the team.

 

Here's the link:

 

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/magazines/fortune/cubs.fortune/

[wekse]

pretty sure this was in the "sale of cubs" thread a couple of days ago.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

So, what do we know about Canning? How deep are those pockets?

[Keener98]

So, what do we know about Canning? How deep are those pockets?

 

Im thinking pretty deep if he has 1 billion dollars to buy this team lol

[cbbryan]

pretty sure this was in the "sale of cubs" thread a couple of days ago.

 

Yeah, I couldn't find that thread. This story if from yesterday the 25th, so I thought it might be of some interest. And ESPN was reporting it this morning.

[Banedon]

This is being discussed here:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=41387

 

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