Winning Bidder Could Be Announced Within A Week

[Butcher]

<!--quoteo(post=58197:date=Aug 17 2009, 09:39 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Aug 17 2009, 09:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=58196:date=Aug 17 2009, 09:37 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Aug 17 2009, 09:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Relying on anything Kaplan says is a mistake.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Kaplan tried to convince me you weren't a douchebag.
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See?

[dk123]

<!--quoteo(post=57835:date=Aug 14 2009, 09:27 AM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Aug 14 2009, 09:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=57822:date=Aug 14 2009, 08:59 AM:name=Coach)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coach @ Aug 14 2009, 08:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Creditors are forcing Zell out..<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Sounds like the entire Cubs organization. Zell was a perfect fit.
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I am no financial expert, but it seemed clear to me from the beginning that what Zell was trying to do was destined for failure.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

<!--quoteo(post=58199:date=Aug 17 2009, 10:42 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Aug 17 2009, 10:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=58197:date=Aug 17 2009, 09:39 AM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Aug 17 2009, 09:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=58196:date=Aug 17 2009, 09:37 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Aug 17 2009, 09:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Relying on anything Kaplan says is a mistake.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Kaplan tried to convince me you weren't a douchebag.
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See?
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I'd like to think that exchanges like these are what made vaudeville so damned entertaining.

[1060Ivy]

Deal with Ricketts family "imminent".

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi...,0,147196.story

Basically, all this says is that the Tribune can't work out another deal with another party. Oh boy! Glad that it only took about a year to get a deal worked out after the Tribune selected the Ricketts family.