Zell is Selling and Maximizing, Much to MLB's Discontent

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Friday's Frosty Mug
Published 2/29/2008 by KLSnow <info@brewcrewball.com> at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
It's time to drift off into the weekend with a Frosty Mug. If you missed any of yesterday's games, Baseball Digest Daily has the roundup. Despite Bill Hall being injured and then not injured, the Brewers had a pretty good day yesterday, and that apparently qualified for congratulations all around. This morning, Jeremy Jeffress admits to going to rehab. The Rays, though, have found an interesting way around drug suspensions. James Houser, a minor league pitcher in their system, had his 50-game suspension voided when he was moved to the 40-man roster. So if Jeffress had been invited to big ...

The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Zell is Selling and Maximizing, Much to MLB’s Discontent
Published 2/29/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Zell is Selling and Maximizing, Much to MLB’s Discontent Or, as Maury sez..."Sam the Zellot.” For fans of baseball—and surely as the sun rises tomorrow, MLB thinks the same—the sooner Sam Zell is removed from all things Chicago Cubs the better. While other corporate ownerships have been chastised by some fans for not doing enough to improve the team for the future, Zell isn’t interested in anything more than getting as much money out of the Cubs and Wrigley as he can, and doing so yesterday would be nice, if you don’t mind. Hey, it’s his toy/asset, ...