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Cuban wouldn't be your typical baseball owner, which is just fine

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Mark Cuban is not going to be the new owner of the Chicago Cubs. The Tribune Company, which is selling the team, knows it. MLB commissioner Bud Selig knows it. And I'm guessing even Cuban himself knows it. Nobody will come right out and say it, but Cuban is going to get blackballed by the old boys baseball frat house of Phi Gonna Lie. In "Animal House" terms, Cuban is Eric "Otter" Stratton, Selig is Dean Vernon Wormer, and longtime Cuban antagonist Jerry Reinsdorf is Doug Neidermeyer. It i ...

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