Cubs sale delayed? / Trib may own Cubs on Opening Day

[Banedon]

I'm one that would really be pissed if they sold the naming rights. I guess I'm old school and it sickens me to see all the corporate whoring at stadiums these days and I don't want it in "my" stadium. I'm fed up with MLB enough as it is. This might be the final straw.

 

Yet you're named after, and have an avatar of, one of the Cubs main corporate advertisers.

[Electron Blue]

I'm one that would really be pissed if they sold the naming rights. I guess I'm old school and it sickens me to see all the corporate whoring at stadiums these days and I don't want it in "my" stadium. I'm fed up with MLB enough as it is. This might be the final straw.

 

Yet you're named after, and have an avatar of, one of the Cubs main corporate advertisers.

 

:D (sorry Old Style)

 

 

 

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[LeftCoastCubFan]

I'm one that would really be pissed if they sold the naming rights. I guess I'm old school and it sickens me to see all the corporate whoring at stadiums these days and I don't want it in "my" stadium. I'm fed up with MLB enough as it is. This might be the final straw.

The last time I looked the Cubs are a business that has every right to do whatever is in their best interest. Wrigley is not publically owned and has no sensitive issues like Soldiers’ Field.

 

Also you have to look at history. It was Weegham Park when built in 1914. The Cubs didn’t play there until 1916. In 1920 it was changed to Cubs Park; then 1926 to Wrigley field for the rich owner William Wrigley Jr. Nobody really cared much until the Tribune bought the team in 1982 and started marketing it as a shrine. There is no real significance in the parks name.

 

So if they want to call it the Old Style Bowl or Kotex Park, it really doesn’t matter. If it brings more revenue, a portion of which will be spent on players; I would like it to happen as soon as possible.

[Cubfanintheknow]

Let me be the first to go on record as saying "Kotex Park" would not be a very good idea.

[Derwood]

Let me be the first to go on record as saying "Kotex Park" would not be a very good idea.

 

agreed. It should be Tampax Field at Massengil Park, brought to you by Vagisil

[Omar]

Great Cuban article in SI

 

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has this crazy idea: He wants to buy the Chicago Cubs, along with Wrigley Field and a piece of a sports channel, possibly by Opening Day. Baseball's old-boy network isn't jazzed about the notion, but I am. Here's why....

 

Because he won't turn Wrigley into GoDaddy.com Field. Don't laugh -- Sam Zell, the takeover artist who's now running the parent Tribune Co., may sell the stadium separately and touts the naming rights as "extraordinarily valuable."

 

Because Cuban would make Wrigley even fan-friendlier. He's hinted he would consider selling sponsorship for parts of the upper deck, then give away tickets to the seats. Can free beer for the bleachers be far behind?

 

Because I'm serious about the free beer idea. Really. Please make it Old Style.

 

Because Bill O'Reilly hates Cuban, and I consider that an endorsement.

 

Because at American Airlines Center you can score a foot-tall Cuban doll that blurts out ref-berating catchphrases such as, "C'mon Dick, that's a horse-BEEP call!" Sure, an arena employee says, the Mavs' souvenir shop has to give them away as add-ons because "who wants a doll that swears at you?" Well, just wait for the Wrigley version, the one that warbles an off-key rendition of Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

 

Because Cuban doesn't patronize fans but instead -- and here's a kooky idea -- listens to them. Those novel three-sided shot clocks at AA Center? The idea came from a fan's e-mail. You know, the ones Cuban gets because he splashes his address on the JumboTron, then reads all the responses. (No screening, ever.) "How many other owners would read e-mails from fans, let alone pay attention to them?" asks Nelson. And that, boys and girls, is as rhetorical as questions get.

 

Because of the first three letters of his last name.

 

Because this isn't just any franchise. These are the Cubbies, a team America needs to love just as it needs to hate the Yankees, a team that defines all that is right and good about baseball. A team that needs someone who gets It, not smothers It in business jargon until It lies crumpled on the floor, profit-modeled to death.

 

Because someone should tell the owners that supersized sluggers and a luxury-box mentality are things to be afraid of.

 

New blood isn't.

 

I recommend reading the whole article. Because of some stupid rule, I just pasted the best parts...

[jersey cubs fan]

I found it rather disappointing myself.

[Banedon]

This was the part that I was interested in:

 

Because he would joust with Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein, and it'd be nice to see somebody challenge that guy. How? Those who know Cuban say he'll only bite -- the asking price is about $1 billion -- if he thinks he can come close to breaking even while competing million-for-million with Boston. (The New York Yankees, majority owners of their TV network, are in a different league.)

[mdwilla]

This was the part that I was interested in:

 

Because he would joust with Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein, and it'd be nice to see somebody challenge that guy. How? Those who know Cuban say he'll only bite -- the asking price is about $1 billion -- if he thinks he can come close to breaking even while competing million-for-million with Boston. (The New York Yankees, majority owners of their TV network, are in a different league.)

 

I think that was my favorite part of the article.

Come on Zell and Bud get this sale done soon to Cuban.

Between Cuban and Roberts I am so tired of waiting.

[NCCubFan]

Because of some stupid rule, I just pasted the best parts...

That "stupid rule" is called copyright law.

[Guest]

Because of some stupid rule, I just pasted the best parts...

That "stupid rule" is called copyright law.

 

Details, details, details.

[Omar]

Because of some stupid rule, I just pasted the best parts...

That "stupid rule" is called copyright law.

 

Details, details, details.

 

I don't think anyone on the outside would have a problem with it as long as we give the source and not claim it as our own.

[mdwilla]

as long as the source is given and the poster isn't making any money off it I see no problem in posting the whole article. It's a a stupid rule. Copyright law or not, it needs some re-working with whole internet fad taking over.

[cbbryan]

670 AM is reporting that Cuban had been given the OK by MLB to review the Chicago Cubs books as soon as they are available. I don't know if this real news, but it makes it seem like the process is moving forward.

[photoguy9883]

as long as the source is given and the poster isn't making any money off it I see no problem in posting the whole article. It's a a stupid rule. Copyright law or not, it needs some re-working with whole internet fad taking over.

 

Yeah but Tim is receiving money from advertisers (although probably not profiting from it) and there in lies the problem.

[C.C.]

670 AM is reporting that Cuban had been given the OK by MLB to review the Chicago Cubs books as soon as they are available. I don't know if this real news, but it makes it seem like the process is moving forward.

 

Wasn't this reported two weeks ago?

[cbbryan]

670 AM is reporting that Cuban had been given the OK by MLB to review the Chicago Cubs books as soon as they are available. I don't know if this real news, but it makes it seem like the process is moving forward.

 

Wasn't this reported two weeks ago?

 

It may have been. The Score was running it on their updates yesterday so I thought it might be new news. Like I said, it may be no big deal.

[Omar]

670 AM is reporting that Cuban had been given the OK by MLB to review the Chicago Cubs books as soon as they are available. I don't know if this real news, but it makes it seem like the process is moving forward.

 

Wasn't this reported two weeks ago?

 

It may have been. The Score was running it on their updates yesterday so I thought it might be new news. Like I said, it may be no big deal.

 

What exactly is inside these "Chicago Cubs books" you speak of?

[Outshined_One]

What exactly is inside these "Chicago Cubs books" you speak of?

 

Basically, he got a look-see at the Cubs' accountings.

[inari]

Maybe I'm alone, but I'm actually starting to feel optimistic that Cuban has a real shot at this.

[seanimal]

Mark Cuban buying the Cubs would probably be the greatest accomplishment in the history of mankind. That's how difficult it will be to get it over Canning.

[Coach C]

Cuban owning the Cubs would be a great thing in baseball, admid with all the steroid scandals and such. I think this is the kind of a positive public relations that the MLB needs.

[Derwood]

i would like, someday, to be in a position to say "no" when someone offers me $1 billion for something

[SouthSideRyan]

as long as the source is given and the poster isn't making any money off it I see no problem in posting the whole article. It's a a stupid rule. Copyright law or not, it needs some re-working with whole internet fad taking over.

 

Yeah but Tim is receiving money from advertisers (although probably not profiting from it) and there in lies the problem.

 

SI is certainly receiving money from advertisers, and by copying and pasting a full article you are reprinting their material on another site, allowing it to be read without the SI advertisements.

[Guest]

i would like, someday, to be in a position to say "no" when someone offers me $1 billion for something

 

I'd love to even be in a position to say "no" when someone offers me $1M for something.