Mark Cuban Would Like To Upgrade Chicago Cubs Fanfare, Maintain Championship Drought

The Chicago Cubs are still on the market. And Mark Cuban is still a crazed lunatic who likes to spend copious amounts of dough on professional sports teams. You’d think it would be a wonderful pairing, considering Cuban is the right type of sorcerer and megalomaniac the Cubs need to get them out of their endless slump. Well that’s not true. He hasn’t taken Dallas anywhere. But he’d sure make the Cubs a circus. And we like the circus. So what would Cuban do if he were their owner?

Cuban said he had learned plenty in his years as Mavericks owner and opened a window to some of his business philosophy by pointing to the 1,500 upper-deck seats he now sells for $2 and also certain walk-up seats for $5.

“If I’m really smart, maybe someday all the tickets in the upper deck will be $2 and we’ll pay for it with advertising, call it the HDNet Upper Deck or whatever,” Cuban said. “The total revenue from the upper deck is like $180,000 a game or something. It’s not enormous. So if you know anybody who wants to spend $200,000 per game, $8 million a year, I’ll make those seats free.”

We say, add two or three air-propelled baseball launchers and a ramp connecting Cubs’ rooftop fans to the stadium, too. Oh, and bring Harry Caray back from the dead. Or else.

Cuban’s ‘passion project’: Buying Cubs [Chicago Tribune]
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