Come To Think Of It...Mark Cuban's Insider Trading Just The Ammo Selig Needs

Federal regulators have charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading. And I'm guessing that Bud Selig is doing cartwheels over the news. Look, make no mistake - Selig and his cronnies want nothing to do with Cuban as a potential owner of a major league baseball franchise. Whether it's his willingness to spend money, his court-side antics, or his sheer anti-establishment attitude, Bud and Jerry Reinsdorf will do anything in their power to sway current Cubs owner and newspaper magnate Sam Zell to sell his Cubbies to another bidder. And that's really a shame, for a guy like Cuban is just the kind of person the normally stodgy MLB needs. He's an owner but he's also a fan. He wants to win, first and foremost. He understands how to market his product. His antics aren't always out of pure frustration - they are sometimes calculated so that he will get more publicity for his Mavs. He considers the fines he pays to be merely advertising costs. Of course, there are stories going ... (link)