It Won't Be Long Now

With the Trib sale not going as well as planned, new ownesr for the Cubs are lining up:

Tribune Co.'s inability to attract aggressive buyout offers has encouraged Chicagoans who are interested in snapping up one piece of the media conglomerate: the Chicago Cubs.

"I think they've got to go plan B, and plan B is to sell off some assets and that would include the Cubs," says industrialist Thomas Begel after Wednesday’s bidding deadline left Tribune with two tepid proposals.

These things happen fairly quickly. Expect new owners to be named by mid-season and new owners to take over after this year's World Series.

There's no way that, should the Cubs somehow manage to win this year, Denis FitzSimons would allow a sale to close before he could take credit for winning.