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Old 12-23-2007, 06:56 PM
 
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Maybe a rich white sox fan will buy the naming rights it and call it Bartman Park! or Billy Goat Curse Park.
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Old 12-23-2007, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Triangle, North Carolina
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Such a shame. Portillo's Stadium? What's next, Big Beef Bleacher sales?
Almost as bad as when Philly took Veteran's Stadium and re-named the new one
Lincoln Financial Field.
I'm really losing my pro sports liking
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Old 12-23-2007, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Wrigley should have been demolished years ago. It is too small, outdated and in a crowded neighbourhood with neighbours that are hostile to it at best. I would tear it down, build a nice shiny new stadium either in the burbs or elsewhere in the city and turned that land into a strip mall or condos- whichever makes the Lakeview neighbours happy. What really should have been done years ago was to build a super ballpark for both the Sox and the Cubs (sine they never play at home the same day anyway)
This is a joke, right?
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Old 12-23-2007, 09:31 PM
 
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Such a shame. Portillo's Stadium? What's next, Big Beef Bleacher sales?
News flash: the Cubs already sold the naming rights for the bleachers in 2006 to Bud Light.

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Old 12-23-2007, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Wrigley should have been demolished years ago. It is too small, outdated and in a crowded neighbourhood with neighbours that are hostile to it at best. I would tear it down, build a nice shiny new stadium either in the burbs or elsewhere in the city and turned that land into a strip mall or condos- whichever makes the Lakeview neighbours happy. What really should have been done years ago was to build a super ballpark for both the Sox and the Cubs (sine they never play at home the same day anyway)
Woah. No comment.
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Old 12-23-2007, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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This is a joke, right?
No it is not. Wrigley might be "historic" but Comiskey was older and it just makes good business sense to demolish it and build a nice new large state of the art ballpark for the Cubs away from hostile neighbours.
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Old 12-23-2007, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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If I had Bloomberg's cash, I would buy the Cubs and rename Wrigley Field Comiskey Park just for the hell of it!
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Old 12-23-2007, 11:55 PM
 
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No it is not. Wrigley might be "historic" but Comiskey was older and it just makes good business sense to demolish it and build a nice new large state of the art ballpark for the Cubs away from hostile neighbours.
Wow. I hate the Cubs with a passion (born and bred Sox fan), but you apparently just dont "get" it.
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Old 12-24-2007, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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No it is not. Wrigley might be "historic" but Comiskey was older and it just makes good business sense to demolish it and build a nice new large state of the art ballpark for the Cubs away from hostile neighbours.
Well actually that makes no sense at all. For one, the "not-hostile neighbors" outnumber the "hostile neighbors" by a wide margin, because the latter are keenly aware that Wrigley Field is almost singlehandedly responsible for what Wrigleyville (and most of Lakeview for that matter) is today. The old Comiskey Park may have been older, but it was a crumbling pit in far worse shape with awful sightlines to boot. Nobody but the most old-school die-hard Sox fans miss that place. (Not that anyone is a fan of the new place either, but that's a different matter.)

By contrast, I reiterate what I said in my first post on this subject: the reason why the Cubs have been such a successful franchise in the face of endless futility is precisely because they play in Wrigley Field. There's no other explanation for why 35,000 people are still willing to pour into the place on a September evening after they've already lot 85 games. Wrigley Field is why people drive/fly in from all over the country to go to Cubs games. There's a reason why Major League Baseball refused to let the Cubs move to the suburbs in the 80s. They knew then what has since become obvious to everyone else: You kill Wrigley Field and you kill the franchise.
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Old 12-24-2007, 08:15 AM
 
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Well actually that makes no sense at all. For one, the "not-hostile neighbors" outnumber the "hostile neighbors" by a wide margin, because the latter are keenly aware that Wrigley Field is almost singlehandedly responsible for what Wrigleyville (and most of Lakeview for that matter) is today. The old Comiskey Park may have been older, but it was a crumbling pit in far worse shape with awful sightlines to boot. Nobody but the most old-school die-hard Sox fans miss that place. (Not that anyone is a fan of the new place either, but that's a different matter.)

By contrast, I reiterate what I said in my first post on this subject: the reason why the Cubs have been such a successful franchise in the face of endless futility is precisely because they play in Wrigley Field. There's no other explanation for why 35,000 people are still willing to pour into the place on a September evening after they've already lot 85 games. Wrigley Field is why people drive/fly in from all over the country to go to Cubs games. There's a reason why Major League Baseball refused to let the Cubs move to the suburbs in the 80s. They knew then what has since become obvious to everyone else: You kill Wrigley Field and you kill the franchise.
They aren't killing Wrigley field, they would merely be changing the name. People are still going to be pouring into the place as, it will still be the exact same stadium. Though, I do agree that they shouldn't screw with the name.
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