Maybe. With a strong case of probably not.

According to the Tribune, Tom Ricketts reached out to some celebrities to raise that $25 million a head he was looking for last month. Simply put: banks aren’t being as forthcoming with cash for him to complete the sale, because, well, you know why that is. (Though, it does seem like the sale is almost complete.)

As such, here’s who Ricketts reportedly turned to:

As talks with Tribune Co. grind on, Ricketts, an investment banker who lives in Wilmette, has held separate discussions with a handful of celebrities to raise money from them and other wealthy Cubs fans willing to pony up as much as $25 million. In addition to Murray, he’s met with Jim Belushi and John Cusack, said two sources familiar with Ricketts’ proposal. The meetings took place several weeks ago, and sources were not sure if the talks had advanced. Representatives for Murray and Cusack did not respond to requests for comment. Belushi’s publicist declined to comment.

This is an awesome idea. I think all three of these dudes should totally team up and buy their favorite franchise, bring in a bunch of wacky and zany players, a rouge outsider, a young up and comer and a fireballing pitching who is struggling with control.

They should film it all and call it Major League 5: Cubs Win! and it will go down as the third best sports movie of all-time, behind Hoosiers and Field Of Dreams.

No words.

Signs the sport of golf will never, ever be figured out: Bill Murray, a dude in his 60s who has probably totaled up more hours on the golf course than time I’ve been alive on this Earth, duffed a drive today. No, it didn’t just land in the rough. No, it didn’t just land in another hole’s fairway. His ball isn’t in the bottom of a lake on the course, either.

It actually went across a street and hit a lady in her front yard. And then she went to the hospital.

“I wasn’t sure I was in bounds or not,” Murray said. “And I saw this NBC golf cart coming at me and he said, ‘I hate to be the one to tell you this but you hit a lady. She’s down on the ground.’ That is, you know, sobering.”

Murray said DiMaggio was taken to a local hospital.

“She was overjoyed when she saw me because she said she had come out to see me and her husband had just said, ‘I hope he hits it over here,’ ” said Murray, who did not finish his round.

Well, that’s a happy ending then, huh? I hope in this lady’s obituary it reads: “Was once hit by golf ball off the driver of American actor Bill Murray … and she was totally cool with it.”

Bethlehem Shoals of the Sporting Blog dug up the below gem which just hit YouTube today. It’s Bill Murray on “Inside Stuff” back in 1998 as a Bulls corespondent:

First thing is first: needs more Summer Sanders.

Second, this is the quirky, slapstick-y Bill Murray you saw on “Saturday Night Live” and in such films as “Caddyshack,” “Ghostbusters,” “Kingpin” and “Space Jam.”

Like Shoals, I’m wondering if he were to cover this year’s squad whether or not Murray would use this style or go for the new, more serious and introspective method acting we saw in “Lost In Translation” and “Broken Flowers.” This style was actually championed in Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” back in 1998, the year this “Inside Stuff” clip hit.

And now we’ve come full circle.

If the Cubs have done nothing else this postseason (besides ripping their fans hearts in half and discarding them in the nearest trash recepticle) it’s given comedy shows easy fodder. “The Daily Show” went after them earlier in the week. And, last night, during NBC’s Thursday edition of “Weekend Update” — which I’m really digging they are doing for the next few weeks, by the way — they did a sketch of the town hall Presidential debate. And Bill Murray was in the audience to ask a question. About the Cubs. Comedy gold!

Bill Murray: still bringing the heat after all these years.