Mark Cuban is Wendy Peffercorn

Or so says Gene Collier, in a rather fantastic analogy (I'll assume that everyone reading a baseball blog knows who Wendy Peffercorn is, but if your memory fails you go here). As usual when Cuban shows up in town (he was here for the Cavs/Mavs game at the arena a couple nights ago), the topic was buying the Pirates. As usual, Cuban's response (to Collier this time, after he's given the same answer to Smizik and Cook) as to why he doesn't own them is:

There is no other answer than that they're not for sale. I've let it be known through back channels that if they ever were, or if they ever were interested in taking on another investor, I'd be interested.

Whenever Cubes answers that question like all I can think of is the scene in Batman Begins where Alfred tells Bruce Wayne that billionaires like him buy things that aren't for sale. We can only hope.