Furthermore, if MLB – or other teams – had a problem with ‘The Streak’ it would have been dealt with a long time ago.

If you have the MLB package or MLB.TV flip over to NESN each night and come back and tell me where the empty sections are. There aren’t (haven’t been) any.

So no, it’s not bogus. It’s legit.”

MLB attendance isn’t rocket science – I understand it’s tickets sold and not entrance at the gate. I also understand many of those tickets are sold only to then be re-sold on the secondary market – which is where they’ll languish.

I have the MLB package and have watched quite a few Red Sox games this year – there are plenty of games where you can spot sections thinning like LeBron’s hair.

So, yes, the “sell out streak” is legitimate in the way they calculate it, but by no means does it coincide with the colloquial definition of a sell-out.

I haven’t not walked the hallowed underbelly of Wrigley, but I did do just that at Fenway in 1999. The said all the same things about Fenway, that there was no room to expand the home clubhouse, no way to expand concourses, no way to put seats on top of the Monster (even though I can tell you that everyone of my friends growing up thought that would be the coolest seat if they could ever pull it off), so way to add seating on top of the right field roof, etc . . . but what I learned from following all of the renovations over the last decade is there is a reason they pay the best engineers and architects a lot of money.

After walking in and around the Red Sox Home Clubhouse in 99 – I would have sworn the same thing . . . that there simply was no way to find additional room. I had seen AA clubhouses that were as big or bigger than the Red Sox clubhouse. No lie. And now it’s one of the bigger most modern home clubhouses in MLB.

The problem with building a new ballpark for the Cubs . . . and correct me if I’m wrong . . . is

1) Wrigley Field has been the business plan for most of the last 30-50 years. Without Wrigley Field and without a sustainably winning team in place, you are playing with fire.

2) Short of an incredibly ambitious AT&T ballpark type project on Lake Michigan – Wrigleyville must remain the home of the Cubs.

I can attest to the fact that most, if not many Red Sox fans were extremely reluctant to move on from Fenway without having broken ‘the curse’ first. I suspect a large number of Cubs fans feel similarly and the more casual fan could or would lose interest. Not that this has any rational place in any true discussion about a new stadium – but then whats rational about being a fan anyway?

All I can say is I hope your wrong. You cannot manufacture the history of a building. It just happens. And a new Wrigley would be just that – with none of the storied history that went along with the old Wrigley.

I don’t know why you’re describing your girlfriend in the comments section of an article about Wrigley Field.

I’ll give you credit for proving it’s possible, but just because they could do it at Fenway doesn’t mean they can do it at Wrigley.

I used to work for the Cubs up until last month. I’ve been in both clubhouses, and they are both small. Very small by comparison to basically every other MLB park. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of extra room for them to renovate either clubhouse.

The tunnels, extra weight room, video room, etc. that are adjacent to the home clubhouse can’t be extended or moved to different areas of the ballpark. As for the visitors’ clubhouse, there isn’t enough extra room nearby to expand it at all, unless they wanted to remove large parts of the plumbing system for the park.

I love Wrigley, I really do. However, it’s probably time to start realistically looking at building a new stadium for the Cubs. It would do wonders for revenue gains by expanding seating and adding modern amenities (beyond the free wifi that seems to be the most modern part of Wrigley). That money could then be used to improve the on-field product, thereby making the Cubs a legitimate playoff team more than once every 15 years.

The original Yankee Stadium didn’t exist after 1973…not saying it had the charm of Fenway or Wrigley, but it looked a lot different before Steinbrenner remodeled. it.

Furthermore, if MLB – or other teams – had a problem with ‘The Streak’ it would have been dealt with a long time ago.

If you have the MLB package or MLB.TV flip over to NESN each night and come back and tell me where the empty sections are. There aren’t (haven’t been) any.

So no, it’s not bogus. It’s legit.

The longest consecutive game sellout streak in North American professional sports history.

750+ and counting . . .”

That’s a clown streak, bro. Everyone knows it’s bogus.

In fact, buy up some of the land across the street and build workout facilities there, with an underground tunnel to them. It’s not like you have to cross a highway. For those who have never been to Wrigley, it is literally in a neighborhood. Sheffield and Waveland are 2-lane roads with street parking.

The longest consecutive game sellout streak in North American professional sports history.

750+ and counting . . .

Tear down Wrigley someday? Yes. Perhaps 75 or 100 years from now. Or maybe never. The Red Sox proved that you can renovate and restructure on the fly without the need to play elsewhere.

Indeed old Yankee Stadium had a ton of history – more than any other park in pro sports . . . but strip away all of that history and the stadium lacked the unique charm of Fenway or Wrigley.

I imagine the corridor was widened when the Bears played there. Visiting football teams would have had to dress in shifts.

However, don’t expect much to change in the Visiting Clubhouse. One only need to look to Boston to understand that limiting the amenities is intentional.