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1 posted on 05/06/2013 5:37:42 PM PDT by rhema
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2 posted on 05/06/2013 5:38:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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The problem is that Chicago has two major league teams and something will have to give.


3 posted on 05/06/2013 5:41:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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5 posted on 05/06/2013 5:44:24 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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The author is correct about Wrigley and Fenway being shrines that baseball pilgrims the country over humbly flock to. I'd have made the pilgrimage to old Yankee Stadium as well. The new one, not so much, and in any case I don't feel like taking out a second mortgage to watch a ballgame.

But it actually is a sound plan to build a high-tech wonder and wait for the enhanced revenue to purchase high-quality players. As a loyal Seattle fan I can state that that policy has given us every World Series the Mariners have ever won. Which would be one fewer than the Cubs. (Sob!)

7 posted on 05/06/2013 6:05:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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If major league franchises were the economic drivers their owners claim them to be, and that gullible or self-interested parties claim to believe them to be, the richest neighborhood in America would be the South Bronx, where the New York Yankees play. Have you been there lately?

US Sucular is the same way. Its an arm pit neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Wrigleyville is Okay. (Just don't bend over if you're a guy)

13 posted on 05/06/2013 6:20:47 PM PDT by mountn man (ATTITUDE- The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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I’ve about had it with taxpayer extortion by major league owners to the point where I can’t even watch sports anymore. Every owner in the NFL says “we’re going to move to LA!!”, the grifters in the commissioners’ offices (Goodell, Stern, Selig, Bettman) exacerbate the problem, all for the benefit of overgrown drunks in face paint and corporate schmoozing in luxury boxes.


18 posted on 05/06/2013 6:40:06 PM PDT by JacksonCalhoun (CT Yankee in NC Exile - the only swing state to flip (barely))
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Of course the improvements Ricketts wants, including lots more signage, are things he believes would increase his revenue rather than anything that would improve the game-watching experience in Wrigley.
A baseball team that can score more runs than the other guys on a regular basis would do far more to improve the game-watching experience at the Confines than any signage or other cosmetics . . .

(This is the 115th year of their rebuilding effort the Cubs are playing this season, by the way . . .)

19 posted on 05/06/2013 6:45:05 PM PDT by BluesDuke (What made America great: God, guns, and Gibson Les Pauls . . .)
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I don't follow MLB but everyone knows the Cubs' history. It's a study in futility.

Miserable as it must be to wear that uniform, it doesn't help that the owner wants to put up a Jumbotron with the money. It tells me he thinks the team isn't good enough to bring in the crowds, he needs another medium for that.

I can watch TV at home, thank you.

23 posted on 05/06/2013 6:51:15 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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