There would be millions of happy Cubs fan in the Chicago area that will rejoice if they move from the North Side to the suburbs. You can easily recreate the “ambiance” of Wrigleyville in a new, modern ballpark. Modern facilities, night games, easy parking, easy access to the millions of Cubs fans in the suburbs. It just makes way too much sense for it not too happen

a) I’m doing it for free, for love of the game, and without inside sources, and
b) dude is making a lot of money to publish this drivel.

When I make a mistake, I’m embarrassed and I try to fix it. When Reilly makes a mistake, he just goes headlong into making fifty more. And gets paid to do it, too.

How do I get this gig?

he also speaks about how the Ricketts are paying for this themselves like they are amazing people and leaves out how they’ve been begging for money for 2 years and b/c of their PAC that ran ads against government spending screwed them for State or City money for this project.

I find it ridiculous they aren’t allowed to do things to their stadium because it blocks the people who were charging others to sit on their roof to watch the Cubs. The owners of the Cubs should not be in competition with “mom and pops” for fans watching their own product. That one seems like common sense to me and as an outsider I had no idea that was going on.

I thought it was the Cubs that didn’t want night games. I didn’t know that the city told them no. I wish MLB would step in here and tell the city they aren’t scheduling so many day games. After all, if it hurts the Cubs’ bottom dollar then it hurts MLB’s bottom dollar.

We’re always on here talking about wishing the city would stay out of the way when it comes to stadium deals. Here we have an owner willing to go to corporations for money to make improvements to the stadium and the city says no. I’m sure they’ll make plenty in taxes from increased concessions, ad deals, ticket sales (although they don’t struggle much in this area) and tv deals.

Set aside the fact that they’re making plenty of money, they own the team and stadium so I think they should be able to make more $ if they want. Sell the stadium name and make it “so and so’s Wrigley field”. It’s still called Wrigley but they’re making bank by putting another name in front of it. Sure it’s not Pure to do it that way, but I can promise you the cubs were not purchased for any reason other than to make the Ricketts more money.

What if the Rickett’s stopped maintaining Wrigley and just let it fall apart? Would the city step in then?

-regards from inside the head of Rick Reilly.

People live in Wrigley Field? Couldn’t the Cubs just raise their rent?