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Finally, The Sale of the Cubs Should Be Signed This Week!

David Kaplan on 08.16.09 | no comments |
The long awaited sale of the Chicago Cubs should finally be signed this week between the Tribune Company and the Ricketts family. The process has been ongoing since April of 2007 but now it is finally about to be completed.

Excellent sources have assured me that there are no more hurdles to clear and the paperwork will be signed by Friday. It will then move on to an MLB ownership committee then a stop in front of the bankruptcy judge and finally it will need approval of the other owners in Major League Baseball. All of this should be wrapped up by the World Series or shortly thereafter and it should pave the way for Tom Ricketts and his family to finally have the keys to the Cubs kingdom.

This timetable will allow the Cubs to be active in free agency which doesn't begin until November and should allow the Ricketts to implement the beginning stages of their master plan in time for the 2010 season. What that plan will involve remains to be seen but rest assured Cubs fans, Tom Ricketts and Co. want to win and they have very definite ideas on what they want to do to improve the franchise.

It's about damn time.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I think they'll need to start today's game first.

Kap sure can lick ass, Ricketts master plan, indeed...Ricketts is buying a roster that is nothing but a big ol' bag of suck. Hendry has screwed the pooch and Cub fans are going to have to pay for it for the next handful of years.
The only hope is the farm system, oh wait, Hendry is in charge of that, too. We're fucked.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Kap still thinks this team will win 95 games.

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Someone who hasn’t eaten in a week doesn’t need your prayers. They need a sandwich!

Yes, I agree.

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Kap looking to keep a job or maybe get one when someone dies.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I will believe this when I see it.

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When this Kaplan writes it, I'll believe it.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Fixed.

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