Waxpaperbeercup.com has a nice breakdown of the Cubs deal.  Essentially, the Ricketts family will buy the team and the ballpark less 5% of all the properties for $845 million, more than any other MLB team has sold for.  The Tribune retains long-term broadcast rights.
Essentially, the broadcast rights are in this case the biggest chip the [...]

Was looking for some info about the Ricketts sale to write on, and found more than I bargained for.  Really too much to write about the sale of the Cubs so that will have to wait until later in the day.  But I came across this promotion of sorts.  Ed Sherman writes about how Tickemaster [...]

A Coulple of interesting pieces from Red Sox Nation, er, the Boston Globe.   First a sort of interesting, perhaps only from a technological stand-point, interactive demostration of how Jacoby Ellsbury steals a base.  On Friday night he tied Boston’s franchise record for steals in a season.  Check out this piece to understand a little more [...]

Well, only if you are a Red Sox fan that is.  But the turn around in Boston from Friday to Saturday leads one to understand just why writing about one team day in and day out is some difficult.  Friday was all doom and gloom, and had I joined in the fray without much insight, [...]

While Joseph Delgrippo has written a great piece about the Orioles farm that sounds pretty darn hopeful for a team playing in the AL East, its interesting that Dan Connelly’s blog has brought up the idea that perhaps the Orioles should choose to tank the rest of the season in hopes of garnering the worst [...]