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Why Wrigley Field Must Be Destroyed
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 14, 2012 | RICH COHEN

Posted on 05/14/2012 7:46:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: MinorityRepublican

Over my dead body: May 23, 1945 - Chicago Lying-In Hospital, University of Chicago. Touch that field and prepare to die Cohen!


41 posted on 05/15/2012 3:42:55 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Get away with this and ‘they’ will be wanting to tear down Ebbets Field or, even worse, move the Dodgers out of Flatbush, or the Giants away from Coogans Bluff and the Polo Grounds.


42 posted on 05/15/2012 5:12:27 AM PDT by xrmusn (#6/98# Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
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To: PzLdr
"Ruth"

I'm assuming you've read "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Homeruns" by Bill Jenkinson?

43 posted on 05/15/2012 6:02:45 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Ditto
"a dump"

I have a bro-in-law who held season tickets to the White Sox and took me to a game at old Comiskey Park the year before it was torn down. I couldn't believe how small the park was. Many foul balls went completely out of the park. It was a dump.

44 posted on 05/15/2012 6:06:19 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Cubs Official Motto:

“Just wait’ll next year!”

/card fan for 38 years.


45 posted on 05/15/2012 6:52:18 AM PDT by buffaloguy (uab.)
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To: Ditto

I don’t disagree. I wasn’t opposed to a new Stadium. I’m pissed because they didn’t build it where the old Stadium had been.

And as for 1960, that’s still the only Series the Yankees lost that REALLY pisses me off [1981 against the Dodgers comes second]. The only upside was that it cost Stengel his job. Whitey should have pitched Game 1, instead of 2. then he would have pitched 4, and 7.


46 posted on 05/15/2012 7:30:52 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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I’m pissed because they didn’t build it where the old Stadium had been.

Isn't the new stadium right next door to the old?

Where would the Yanks have played for two years when they tore down the old stadium and built new on the same spot?

And as for 1960, that’s still the only Series the Yankees lost that REALLY pisses me off

As a 12 year old Pirates fan at the time, I thought it was the greatest series ever! The Yanks broke all the series batting records and the Pirates won anyway. ;~))

47 posted on 05/15/2012 8:05:57 AM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Having not won a World Series since 1908, and having last appeared on that stage in 1945—a war year in which the professional leagues were still populated by has-beens and freaks—the Chicago Cubs must contemplate the only solution that might restore the team to glory: Tear down Wrigley Field.

Yeah—but on the other hand, look at all the teams that have won games in Wrigley Field while playing the Cubs.

48 posted on 05/15/2012 8:14:59 AM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: Farmer Dean; MinorityRepublican

Same in Pittsburgh. The Buccos said, “Build us a new ballpark and we’ll give you a winning team”. Two hundred million dollars and eleven years later and the losing streak is extending into its 20th straight year.

We stole Louis Bierbauer and the longest losing steak in professional sports from the Phillies. WhooHoo!


49 posted on 05/15/2012 8:20:37 AM PDT by SargeK
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Where would the Yanks have played for two years when they tore down the old stadium and built new on the same spot?

St. Louis built the new Busch right into the old one with an overlap without skipping a beat.

50 posted on 05/15/2012 8:49:26 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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