As Jinx Turns 100, the Friendly Confines Are Getting Feisty (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By Alan Schwartz
Published: March 30, 2008
"Sam Zell does pretty much whatever he pleases. He curses at employees in his $6 billion empire. At 66, he motorcycles 115 miles per hour and extreme skis. So if he wants to buy a major league baseball team — particularly the pickled-in-tradition Chicago Cubs — not only do their fans not have to like it, but he doesn’t, either".
“'He actually dislikes baseball,' Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of Chicago’s crosstown White Sox said matter-of-factly. 'He never would have bought the Cubs if they didn’t come with the Tribune. It’s just another asset to him.'"
"And so begins the Cubs’ first full season of temporary control under Zell, who purchased the Tribune Company last year and now wants to drop its subsidiary Cubs like a wet washcloth. (But only after he explores selling the naming rights to Wrigley Field.) The team is coming off a division title and is a legitimate contender to win its first World Series in exactly 100 years — the longest championship drought in professional sports — but of more immediate importance to many fans is this shotgun marriage between a hard-edged financier and the Midwest’s resident teddy bears....".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/sports/baseball/30cubs.html?ref=baseball
By Alan Schwartz
Published: March 30, 2008
"Sam Zell does pretty much whatever he pleases. He curses at employees in his $6 billion empire. At 66, he motorcycles 115 miles per hour and extreme skis. So if he wants to buy a major league baseball team — particularly the pickled-in-tradition Chicago Cubs — not only do their fans not have to like it, but he doesn’t, either".
“'He actually dislikes baseball,' Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of Chicago’s crosstown White Sox said matter-of-factly. 'He never would have bought the Cubs if they didn’t come with the Tribune. It’s just another asset to him.'"
"And so begins the Cubs’ first full season of temporary control under Zell, who purchased the Tribune Company last year and now wants to drop its subsidiary Cubs like a wet washcloth. (But only after he explores selling the naming rights to Wrigley Field.) The team is coming off a division title and is a legitimate contender to win its first World Series in exactly 100 years — the longest championship drought in professional sports — but of more immediate importance to many fans is this shotgun marriage between a hard-edged financier and the Midwest’s resident teddy bears....".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/sports/baseball/30cubs.html?ref=baseball
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