Jay Mariotti weighs in on the Cubs sale with the non sequitor to end all non sequitors:

And while they don't have to spend $140 million every year, Tom and Joe are the stewards of a major-market franchise with high ticket prices and fans obsessed to win a championship. They can't do this on the cheap -- and that includes spending as much as $500 million on building a new grandstand at Wrigley before the current one falls down.

"Hopefully, they are in this to win and not just to say they own the Cubs, and they're willing to keep the payroll the way it is and we can do what we need to do," first baseman Derrek Lee said.

"Now we can go get Roy Halladay," Ramirez said.

Maybe, maybe not. But there is this twist: One of Joe Ricketts' kids, Laura, is a lesbian. Technically, then, she will be one of the Cubs owners. "If that's not enough of a reason to buy a bleacher seat to a Cubs game, I don't know what is," wrote Trish Bendix as part of her "L-Blog" page on Chicago Now, the Tribune's blog site.

At this point, Cubdom doesn't really care who owns the ballclub. If Laura Ricketts can produce a championship, hundreds of thousands of fans surely will show up for the next Gay and Lesbian Pride parade.

Um, how is this a twist? How is it a twist on the back end of Aramis wanting to sign Roy Halladay?

Is this anything more than an opportunity for Jay to write "lesbian" on the Internets?