Chicago Illinois Real Estate Blog

If Mark Cuban sidles up to fellow Cubs fans at future Wrigley Field games, apparently he’ll have to do so as a ticket buyer.

His bid to buy the team from owner Sam Zell? According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Cuban won’t even make the final cut if commissioner Bud Selig and Major League Baseball owners have their way.

"There’s no way Bud and the owners are going to let that happen," a baseball source told the Chicago Sun-Times earlier this week. "Zero chance."

Mark Cuban might be out of the Cubs sweepstakes.
Zell has yet to shorten the field of five potential buyers who submitted bids of about $1 billion to the Tribune Co. for the Cubs and Wrigley Field. The process has begun to drag: The Cubs were on the market at the start of the 2007 baseball season and a source told the Sun-Times that a deal before Opening Day 2009 is unlikely.

"The Cubs have got smart, smart people here. I mean they’re winning, they’re doing great things, I’ll just stay out of the way," Cuban said in August, just weeks after learning he had made the field of five bidders. "Believe it or not, I can stay out of the way."
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