Rod Blagojevich, noted tool, was indicted today on corruption charges, the breadth of which Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald called “staggering.” Basically, Roddy tried to sell off Barack Obama’s recently vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder. Genius. These conversations — among many others! — were put on tape and Rod got caught, because he is a stupid, stupid guy. (It should be noted that no wrongdoing is alleged against Obama or his presidential team in the indictment.)

In any case, this has minimal relation to sports except for one interesting tidbit: Blagojevich and chief of staff John Harris once beefed with the Tribune and tried to interfere in the Cubs sale. Jerks:

Beginning no later than November 2008 to the present, in Cook County, in the Northern District of Illinois, defendants ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, being agents of the State of Illinois, a State government which during a one-year period, beginning January 1, 2008 and continuing to the present, received federal benefits in excess of $10,000, corruptly solicited and demanded a thing of value, namely, the firing of certain Chicago Tribune editorial members responsible for widely-circulated editorials critical of ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, intending to be influenced and rewarded in connection with business and transactions of the State of Illinois involving a thing of value of $5,000 or more, namely, the provision of millions of dollars in financial assistance by the State of Illinois, including through the Illinois Finance Authority, an agency of the State of Illinois, to the Tribune Company involving the Wrigley Field baseball stadium; in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 666(a)(1)(B) and 2.

I wonder if, at one point, Blagojevich was actually a good guy. A responsible public official. If he actually wanted to help people through governance. Or if, as the charges and details of his case would imply, he was just a solipsistic asshole concerned only with his own advancement and profit. We may never know — but the evidence is swung pretty far in one direction, isn’t it?

(After the jump, a video summation of the Cubs’ week thus far.)