Cubs' new owner seems like a winner

A belated word about my Cubs: the Chicago Tribune has announced that billionare Tom Ricketts- a lifelong Cubs fan who met his wife at Wrigley Field, and once lived across the street from it- has been selected as the team's new owner.

While most of us have been rooting for Mark Cuban, his legal difficulties and the problems he undoubtedly would have had being approved by the other owners made him effectively a non-starter. In Ricketts, we have an owner with both deep pockets and a dedication to seeing the team win.

All things considered, it's hard to see how we could realistically have had a better outcome. So let's go out and get Jake Peavy now, and end this one hundred and one year draught!