Link below to Crain's article discussing the Tribune's impending plans to sell some of its holdings (no registration required):

http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=24687&bt=Tribune&searchType=phr ase

The Cubs are certainly the most visible of those holdings.

Would you rather have a deep, deep pocketed owner with a burning desire to win it all? Or do you prefer the corporate ownership? For every potential Arte Moreno there's a Peter Angelos out there.

There 's a degree of speculation in all this, but this might make fiscal sense to the bean-counters at the Tower at this time.