Lisa Guerrero: Who’s your mama now, Mark Cuban?
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With the news this morning that Mavericks owner/entrepreneur/’Dancing With the Stars’ reject Mark Cuban is being charged with insider trading of his stock from Momma.com Inc., I had to giggle.
But, first, here is his response, which was posted on his blog at 1:20 p.m. EST:
I am disappointed that the Commission chose to bring this case based upon its enforcement staff’s win-at-all-cost ambitions. The staff’s process was result-oriented, facts be damned. The government’s claims are false and they will be proven to be so.
As you might recall, much has been made recently of Cuban’s interest in buying the Chicago Cubs. Chris De Luca of the Chicago Sun Times squelched that idea on Nov. 7 when he reported that “ ... baseball’s old guard plans to stand firm against letting Cuban into the club.’
‘There’s no way Bud [Selig] and the owners are going to let that happen,’ a Major League Baseball source said this week. ‘Zero chance.’
This prompted a response from Mike James of The Times, who wrote on the Fabulous Forum last week that ‘there’s little doubt that he’s the kind of individual who would be good for baseball. Not simply good, he’s the kind of owner baseball needs. ... ‘
Um, not so much.
Even more hilarious is the fact that just last Thursday, Cuban wrote a blog at The Huffington Post called ‘President-Elect Obama’s First Big Mistake,’ which criticizes the next prez for assembling an economic advisory team that has ‘a lot of great minds’ but ‘not a single entrepreneur.’
Guess he was lobbying for a position. And, apparently, he doesn’t think Warren Buffett, a member of the advisory board, counts.
Needless to say, this morning’s news of Cuban’s Missive Crisis has the blogosphere in a tizzy. Here are a couple of responses at the Huffington Post from readers who didn’t dig his blog last week and apparently are getting their shots in today.
Scorpioleidy writes: “He should go to jail – same as Martha [Stewart] did!!! You did the crime, now you do the time wonder boy!!! Wonder if HuffPo will let him continue to write editorials for them while he’s in jail???”
Johnnygoodwud writes: “New gig; Dancing With the Inmates.”
Bowling for Revenge says: ‘If Mark Cuban is found guilty and doesn’t serve time, ala Martha Stewart, justice isn’t blind, it’s sexist … $8,000 is all that sent Martha to jail, of course, it cost our fine government over 1 million dollars to prosecute her.”
And finally, ManUnitFan wonders: “Does this mean he won’t be buying my Cubs, now?”
Guess those MLB owners might know what they’re doing after all.
-- Lisa Guerrero
Lisa Guerrero has covered Super Bowls, the NBA Finals and the World Series, along with the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys. As an actress, she has appeared on ‘Frasier’ and ‘The George Lopez Show’ and as Billy Baldwin’s long-suffering wife in the film ‘A Plumm Summer,’ which she executive-produced.
Photo at top: Mark Cuban during a postseason game in Miami in 2006. Credit: Rhona Wise / EPA