"Anyway, listen to the roar of the crowd!"
Posted on 03/09/2021 7:35:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO (AP) — After a season of mostly empty ballparks in Chicago, the famed marquee at Wrigley Field said it all.
“Welcome home, Cubs fans,” it read.
Thousands of masked fans of the Cubs and White Sox will get to see their teams play in person beginning on opening day, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday. Each team will be limited to 20% capacity, but it was enough to send some fans off to Wrigley to celebrate.
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Baseball overall lost about 3 billion dollars last season,with no fans. They can’t pay all their operating expenses with just TV money income. Bottom line is they need to sell tickets and fill up the ballparks.
There are a few outliers such the Miami Marlins, who have poor attendance. Otherwise teams need to sell tickets to survive financially.
The Sox don’t even get anyone to go to their games even without a pandemic.
Very true. The area sucks.
I’m for them staying empty for the next twenty years . . .
If everyone wore a Black Lives Matter shirt they would be immune to the virus forever.
The Bidet administration just needs to mail out the free shirts to everyone!
I always point out the contrast to when the Sox won the World Series, as opposed to when the Cubs won it.
What is the contrast?
When the Sox won, the average reaction of people in Chicago was like, “Oh, that’s nice.” But of course when the Cubs won, it was like the greatest thing that ever happened to Chicago since the ‘85 Bears.
That is 100 percent correct. Cubs got lucky in 2016
Awright!!! Lemme hear you out there!
A one, a two, a three...
(off key) Take me out to the ballgame,
Take me out with the crowd.
(C’mon! You gotta belt it out!)
Buy me some peanuts and Crack-er Jack.
I don’t care if we ever get back
‘Cause we’ll root, root, root for the Cub-bies
If they don’t win, it’s a shame
For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out
At the old ball game!
Awright! Let’s get some runs!
"Anyway, listen to the roar of the crowd!"
Yeah, I wouldn’t even go to Comiskey (or whatever corporate crap they call it now) for a day game.
I do remember the sign they put up at Comiskey in the 80s, when the Sox were good and the Cubs stunk, and they were getting a lot of bandwaggoners, “Die Yuppie Scum, Go Back to Wrigley!”
When I was living in Chicago I’ll never forget watching a late September, early October game against the Pirates on a cold, dreary, windy day. Both teams were in a race to see who would lose 100 games first. The Cubs squeaked out a win and the crowd reacted as they had won the World Series. Sox fans would have said “Great, you won. Get the hell off the field ya jagoffs.” Sox fans had plenty of bad teams to support, but they did not take pride in sucking like Cubs fans did.
‘I always point out the contrast to when the Sox won the World Series...’
having looked it up, I am now aware that the Sox won against those annual juggernauts the Houston Astros in 2005...that’s not too bad, only 88 years between world championships...
I vividly remember the Go-Go Sox of 1959 deposing the damn Yankees, with the ancient names of Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox, and Early Wynn sifting like fine wine through my memories, falling to the traitorous LA Dodgers in six games...
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