FanHouse Ronnie Woo Woo

We've seen it work with baseball teams before, as the Yankees, Red Sox, and Mets all have their own television networks in YES, NESN, and SNY respectively. It turns out, if you play in a market large enough to support such a move, owning your own network is a nice way to bring revenue into the club.

It also turns out that teams and owners like making money, so when the chance to start their own station presents itself, organizations are going to give it some strong consideration. The latest team to toy with they idea? Why, it's the Chicago Cubs.

A new channel devoted to the Cubs is one of the enticing potential revenue-generating items that Tribune Co. is floating as part of its planned sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and its 25 percent stake in Comcast SportsNet.

So far, the media company has provided few financial details about Comcast SportsNet in the confidential briefing books it provided to prospective buyers, making it difficult to calculate a price tag for the channel, according to sources familiar with the documents, who asked not to be identified because the sales process is ongoing. Opening bids for the team are due by Friday.

But Tribune Co. also planted a seed of opportunity with prospective buyers. After Comcast SportsNet's rights to broadcast Cub games expires in 2019, a new owner could create a new sports network dedicated to the Cubs.

Those of you not familiar with Chicago Cubs human mascot -- and totally annoying, smelly dude -- Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers, well, I'm not really sure what to tell you. He's this dude ... and he just of trolls around Wrigley Field in a full-on Cubs jersey ... and he says "Woo" a lot. He's a big hit with the drunkards.

Where his schtick is not appreciated, however, is on long flights to Arizona. The above video is proof positive. We all love Southwest, Ronnie (really though, I loves me some Southwest airlines) but there's no reason for the silly outbursts. That had to be a long flight.