Cuban Would Pay $1.3 Billion For Cubs

↵Via FanHouse, the New York Times slips the bid Mark Cuban has entered in the Cubbies sweepstakes into a story about how Bud Selig already hates Cuban: $1.3 billion. Further, the Grey Lady’s Richard Sandomir indicates there have been four other bids in excess of $1 billion, and that highest bids don’t always win.
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↵One of Sandomir’s best lines of attack vignettes indicating Cuban might be too human for MLB ownership comes from an interview the Mavericks owner did with Dan Patrick a few months back.↵↵⇥Cuban: “If there’s a hooker you want, it all comes down to price, right? And I think that’s a better analogy.”
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↵⇥Patrick: “So the Cubs are your hooker?”
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↵⇥Cuban: “Well, yes, bad choice of words.”↵↵More like “hilarious choice of words.” While hardly a Cuban fan, I remain indignant of the idea that anyone aware of the names “George Steinbrenner” and “Marge Schott” could argue about the sanctity of MLB ownership.↵