Steve Stone for Cubs (Senior Advisor to the Owner)!!

Throughout this week, after realizing that Mark Cuban owning the Cubs is less than a pipe dream, it took a column in the Sun-Times to make me realize who I was forgetting about that I should want to be in control of the Cubs.

• Who is the voice that I home in on any time he is on a radio program talking baseball? (Well, this might be a negative because I know he definitely won't be doing that as much)
• Who is a deep, Cubbie Blue blooded Cubs fan?
• He would have gone somewhere else after getting run out of the booth if he weren't. You can't tell me there are jobs elsewhere for Andy Maser and not Steve Stone.
• Who has the baseball and Cubs organization knowledge needed to do the job right?

Of course I'm talking about Steve Stone. In the Sun-Times column, Stoney says he has been contacted by several ownership groups in regards to being a consultant for them. He also says that though he has tried in the past to be a part owner of other teams, he is not interested in ownership of the Cubs. Reading between the lines, this is a job for much deeper pockets than Stone has, but he would be happy to be a key adviser. The type of ownership group that would think to call Stone is the type that I hope gets the team, if they simply won't just sign themselves over to me, that is. In fact, if I were to be so lucky, I believe I would be calling Stoney myself.

In less than a week, the people surfacing as front-runners in owning/running the Cubs are Jerry Colangelo and Steve Stone. This is going to make for an even more interesting Summer.