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After a high-profile courtship with Mark Cuban, the bankrupt Tribune Company has finally completed the sale of the Chicago Cubs to the relatively anonymous Ricketts family for $845 million.
While this is more than 40 times what the Tribune Company paid for the Cubs in 1981, that has little to do with on-field success, as the multimedia conglomerate's 28-year stewardship of Chicago's original franchise has been defined by perpetual underachievement, surprising playoff failure, drunken fans, Steve Bartman and the papier-mache arms of Mark Prior and Kerry Wood.
Maybe an ownership change is what is needed to finally make the (increasingly less) lovable losers non-winners no more, and end the North Siders' mind-boggling 101-year run without a World Series title. So now that the Cubbies are potentially in better hands, what other sports franchise is most in need of new ownership? Let us know the ones we missed in the comments.
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Monday 24 August
By CPM
In case you haven't noticed, the Indians have lost two Cy Young winners and a perennial all star catcher in the last year, because the owner is "broke". Perhaps they should get a nod on your ballot, instead of a team that doesn't matter, like, I don't know, the Clippers?
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Monday 24 August
By Enrique
Even though the Raiders are pretty shitty these days on and off the field, they can at least say the franchise has won 3 Super Bowls.
The Clippers haven't even gotten a DIVISION title. Even the Lions made the playoffs consistently in the 90s.
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