This Just In: Cuban charged with inside trading

The man that Chicago Cubs fans hope will own their team has been charged with insider trading by the Securities Exchange Committee.

While most newsgroups will break this down because of its newsworthiness, I'll pose the following question: Is he really much worse than the guys who currently own the Cubs?

You know, Tribune Co. The ownership group that helped lie about/hide every Mark Prior and Kerry Wood injury. The people that made Sammy Sosa's early exit in 2004 look like a federal crime. The head honchos who made a profit off losing teams, cried about losing money and then turned the tables when it was found that they were one of a handful of teams making a profit.

Oh yeah, and the same ownership group that held back a segment of tickets for "premium games," created a ticket brocker office and then sold the tickets at a major mark-up.

Yet, Mark Cuban is getting charge for what I would call getting a hook up. I didn't know it was a crime to take advice from your friends to save your money.

Whatever.

Nothing else to report here.

SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading [Wall Street Journal]

It's the end of the world as we know it?

If you're sick of Cubs fans writing about the end of the world, don't click away just yet.

This is not your normal Billy goat, black cat, Bartman post. In fact, that is the only mention of that crap in this post.

But apparently, the world might end soon because some nerds want to try to recreate the big bang theory. Stupid! This is why guys like that get dunked in toilets and thrown in trashcans as soon as they step into high school.

Maybe this is their revenge.

And to think, I'm sitting here looking forward to seeing the Cubs actually compete deep into October and the world is apparently going to end. I was under the impression that I had four years to celebrate a World Championship.

Now the world wants to come to an end.

Go figure.

As for the odds, there's a part of me that's not buying this. The left side of my brain is telling me that all these guys want is attention, because girls and their parents never gave it to them. The right side of my brain says 'hey we survived 8 (!) years of President Bush - this can't be that bad.'

I don't know how you'll spend the next two days, but I'm looking forward to that Big Ten coaches conference call on Tuesday.

Plan accordingly

Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears [Time]