The Rosemont Cubs?

There was always going to be a deal. The Mayor's office just felt like the Cubs were being a bit uppity and made them sweat.

 

Using such a word out of its proper racial context has to be a violation of some kind.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for Wrigley Field, the amusement park. While I do agree the park needs a lot of renovations and upgrades, a jumbo scoreboard in left field is not one of them. What's next, ripping out the ivy?

 

A jumbotron would be awesome at Wrigley Field.

Depriving yourself of useful tools just because they weren't around at some point in the past and you like the nostalgia is pretty insane.

 

What about the poor condo owners across the street?

 

They've already threatened to sue.

 

Hopefully the back of the jumbotron will say, "Want to see the game? Buy a ticket." A message just for those a-hole, rooftop bleacher-owning landlords.

 

I've never understood how those leaches are allowed to do what they do. I know they begrudgingly give the Cubs a small portion of the ticket revenue, but it is crooked as hell. There is now way they should be allowed to do it period. The fact they are trying to dictate to the Cubs about how they can renovate Wrigley now is asinine. I cannot think of any other stadium in any other sport that has to contend with that bull shit.

 

From what I have read, they also sink about $15 mil a year into maintenance of the relic. I love Wrigley, but it needs a lot of work. I'm not even against them modernizing the building, there are ways to do it and still keep its old school charm. And if the Rickets are willing to use $500 million of their own money and not looking for a nickle from the tax payers, only to have some of the draconian restrictionsplaced on the franchise softened, well then all the better.

 

Well, the Ricketts are only doing that because they got turned down repeatedly for public money over about three years of begging.

 

This sucks. I was really looking forward to baseball trips to exotic Rosemont.

 

I'm well aware of that, but not every billionaire owner comes to that realization.