It’s all about chipping in

OK, Chicago Cubs fans, here’s your chance to put up or shut up. Anyone who has ever had their baseball hopes shredded like September ivy on a stadium wall can pitch in $1 – just one buck – and maybe we can raise enough dough to take the team off poor, beleaguered Sam Zell’s hands, now that he has a real, live bankruptcy to ride herd on.

With a century of disappointment dogging Cubs Nation the length and breadth of this great land, I’m sure we could raise something in the neighborhood of nine figures. Maybe even the…