Penny-Pinching Cubs Give Replacements the Bum's Rush

These multimillionaire baseball owners are really a class act allthe way, aren't they?

Warms your heart, makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it,to know this bunch is in charge of safeguarding our once-upon-a-timenational pastime?

Here we have acting Commissioner (and Milwaukee Brewers owner)Bud Selig standing up at the microphones Sunday to announce the endof the baseball strike and with a straight face, so help me, tellingus that he "would like to take a moment, on behalf of Major LeagueBaseball, to thank all the replacement players who interrupted theirlives to help us out."

Very touching.

So touching that the Cubs - owned by Tribune …