Even with this, I'm not for Cuban

As you know, a candidate to own a Major League Baseball team must receive 75 percent of 31 votes.

"Hey," you might say, "what do you mean 31? There are only 30 teams."

True, but 30 owners and me add up to 31 votes. And around here the only one that counts is mine.

You might recall that I'm opposed to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban buying the Cubs.

I don't like the guy. I don't like his style. I don't like his methods. I don't like his wardrobe. I don't like anything about him.

That said, I'm reconsidering now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Cuban with insider trading.

This can be viewed in a couple of ways: Cuban is a more unappealing character than ever, or he's now an appealing bad boy.

Folks, I don't need to tell you the Cubs are desperate after failing to win a World Series for the last 100 seasons.

They have to win one sooner or later and by hook or crook, right?

Think about the Yankees. George Steinbrenner was convicted of making illegal donations to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign.

How many championships have the Yankees won since then? The exact number escapes me, but a good guess is it's higher than the Cubs' zero.

Cuban allegedly benefited financially by selling shares of an Internet search-engine company after receiving inside information.

You wouldn't want Cuban owning your team if he is dumb enough to get caught cheating. Then again, if you're a Cubs fan, you might like the team's owner to be that ruthless.

As soon as I saw the Cuban bulletin on a graphic across the bottom of CNBC on Monday morning, I e-mailed the news to a friend.

"Does this have anything to do with him trying to get Lamar Odom from the Lakers?" he e-mailed back.

Not unless the Lakers were a subsidiary of Mamma.com back in 2004, when Cuban allegedly went from ahead of the curve to inside the curve.

Still, that started me thinking of the possibilities.

What would Cuban do to win a World Series? Would he shoot up all the Cubs with performance enhancers? Would he populate his roster with illegal aliens?

Listen, I'm opposed to cheating on taxes, expense reports and spouses.

But if somebody shady came along and fixed a few games to finally get this World Series gorilla off the Cubs' backs -

Come on, you'd have to at least consider it. The curse angle is getting old and tired, and the jokes are getting older and more tired.

The Cubs aren't going to win a World Series, at least not in my lifetime, unless they play a fast and loose with the rules.

Who better to do that than somebody who played fast and loose with the stock market as if he were a male Martha Stewart?

Oh, heck, this is all moot for a couple of reasons.

First, Cuban insists he's innocent. Second, MLB wasn't going to approve Cuban's purchase of the Cubs to begin with and during the legal process it has a valid reason to vote him down.

That's works for me, considering I have decided to continue voting against the guy.

A cheater might be OK, but a 40-something club owner who goes to games in a muscle T-shirt isn't.