but I will say well written.

Wrigley Field and Fenway must remain. I am from Cincinnati, and I while I enjoy the modern amanities of Great American Ballpark, it is special when I get to Wrigley.

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Maybe I’ll read it, but in the meantime, it’s not the stadium’s fault.

however, I do have a beef with one suggestion, and I am only half serious, but . . .

McCormick Place? IMO, that puts us way to close to the White Sox.

I agree 100%, I couldnt tell you the difference b/t Arlington Heights and Athens, Greece though, so I’ll leave that to the Chicagoans to discuss.

I just think its inevitability something is gonna have to give in terms of the Cubs housing situation and is probably the biggest issue for the new owner.

I dont think Wrigley is so amazing just because of the place. I think its ALL the fans, the atmosphere and the surroundings. So if we were to get a new park, I would want it in Wrigleyville. Theres only a few problems.
1. If we get a new park, you know damn well we need a parking facility. Where does that go if your in Wrigleyville? Under the park? I doubt it.
2. If you want parking, bye-bye Wrigleyville.
3. Retractable roof or not?
4. Do we keep anything from before?

Theres other things ive thought about that i cant remember. Like someone else said, this isnt part of the playoff hangover. I was thinking this when I went to Miller for the last game of the year. It was the 4th time ive been there. They have a GREAT facility up there.

Next question!

with the exception of having to play the Friday Day Game after returning from a road trip on Thursday.

All teams play day games on Sunday
Most Teams play day games on Saturday
Most Teams play a day games during the week on a get away day.

I am guessing that the Cubs play 30 more day games than the rest of the league. Is that such a big deal when only a fraction of those day games come during the hot months and most of them are on the weekend when they have already adjusted. When we suck at home, other teams don’t seem to have a problem with the day games.

If they got the city to allow them to play Friday Night Games, the # of day games would go down even more

Its part of what makes the Cubs the Cubs. I don’t want moderh things, I want old fashioned pure baseball.

Than when they introduced the Blue M&M

They have managed to update that place and it still retains the lure and lore that makes it special and unique. Does Wrigley need major renovation—yup. But no reason to build a new park, Heck I’d be for an electric scoreboard and billboards on the Ivy (shudder) before I would want them to build a new one. Your money argument is another reason, as SuperC noted, why it would be a dumb move. Why raise the money (probably by taxpayers — who will never pass the bonds in this economy) when you have a paid for, albeit in need of repair, facility. Naaa…fix the place up, build the office building next to it or whatever and move on. Parking lots??? That is sooo last century.

I dont see whats so wrong about wanting a sports team to have more money in the coffers.

Also I think the Cubs should really consider there own cable network as well.

on most things Cubs, and he’s been to more of the newer NL parks (Milwaukee and St. Louis) than I have. He loves Wrigley as much as any Cubs fan and he told me this year that the Cubs should build a new stadium. He basically said Wrigley was a dump. The seats, restroom facilities, food courts and concourse are so crappy compared to others. The field and bleachers/scoreboard are still the selling point, but the rest must go. Oh, plus no parking if you have to drive to the game.

I would tend to agree. I go to games here at Chase Field, and this place is far from a baseball palace, but on nights early in the season when the roof is open and the outfield windows/doors are open, it’s a great place to watch a game. I hate it when the place is all closed up. The new Wrigley could be like all the retractable roof stadiums and would be nice to play at in April, OCTOBER ;) and rainy days.

Making the original Wrigley a museum would be nice, but I don’t know if they have the deep pockets to sustain a museum instead of selling that property. The sad part of moving to a new home is that all the neighborhood charm and electricity that is there would be lost forever.

I haven’t lived in Chicago for over 8 years now and have no idea what open land would be available or suitably large enough to accomodate a new stadium and parking and probably a hotel/restaurant/bar complex like here in Glendale, AZ.

I love the troughs!

shut it down for a year, play at the cell, and doa massive renovation.

Modernize Wrigley!

New scoreboard, new bathrooms, more seats, but keep the Ivy, etc.

Nothing but bad karma exists in that hell hole. A world series title has not been won there, really only epic failures have occured in that ballpark. Tear it down. I dont care about the “atmosphere”. I would rather have a world series title than “atmosphere”

I think a problem could be this: too many day games

1st off, the Cubs DO NOT play a majority of their games during the day — they play a majority of HOME games in daylight. It sounds like the Cubs are already trying to increase their number of night games, and I’m sure they will.

2nd, who cares what the revenue books look like? The Cubs make more than enough money already! Just like D. Lee said, Wrigley Field is a tourist attraction and lots of people who go to games, go for the experience; therefore, when the Cubs have a horrible season, they can still count on good attendance — I seriously doubt that would be the case in a new park — Just ask the SF Giants, who missed 3 million for the first time at their beautiful, waterfront park — because the team sucked.

Bottom line is, Wrigley Field should be modernized just like Fenway has been. Anybody who blames the ballpark for the team’s performance is making excuses. I admit, a good point is made with respect to player facilities; but I firmly believe, any renovation done to the park, would easily remedy that problem.

CUBS PLAY AT WRIGELY, RED SOX PLAY AT FENWAY… ENOUGH SAID CUBS STAY PUT. Cubs moving into a new ballpark would throw off the laws of nature and destroy our planet. You think global warming is bad. Have the CUBBIES move into a new ballpark that will be apocolyptic

I would have to think long and hard about this.

BUT STILL A NO

The Cubs get decent revenue streams as-is, Klown Kenney has mentioned how they’ve been able to increase these in recent years and that they have ideas for further increases without major renovation. Once you turn it into a Ball Mall or move it out to the suburbs it loses it’s appeal as a classic neighborhood ballpark and the Cubs become as big a draw as the Pirates.

We already have an alternative in town if you absolutely need to drag the rug rats to the park to be distracted from the game — it’s at 35th and Shields.

For a while I’ve wondered if a newer, more modern-style Wrigley could be built in and around the Soldier Field-Museums area of town. Would dumping enough landfill along the lakeside create enough a big enough parcel of real estate to support the necessary acreage?

Furthermore, you could not only keep the original Friendly Confines but REMOVE some of the seating. How or why, you ask? Because a minor league team could be lured in to play there, and they only need about 10K seats to operate profitably.

Many of the new parks that have been made were HUGE improvements from their respective teams old parks. That is, getting away from boring cookie cutter designs and dumpy utilitarian venues. Actually most of the new parks are striving to recreate the views and ambiance of a place like Wrigley Field. Really all we are talking about here is improving parking, concessions, restrooms… Would everyone be talking about a new park if the concourse was lighted and covered in marble? Or if the restrooms included tile floors and chrome plated faucets? Or how about Sushi, Garlic Fries, and Gourmet Pizza? These things are easy — well maybe we’ll have to terra cotta the place instead of marble.

…honesty prevails me to say that I would not miss the ballpark if the Cubs abandoned it for a new place somewhere else. Wrigley is a beautiful ballpark. Nobody questions that. But it also is a borderline dump in need of HUGE improvements. Plus I’m sick and tired of it being about the ballpark as opposed to the ball team.

If Wrigley is to remain viable then an EXTREME MAKEOVER will need to happen. Given the landmark status attached to the ballpark and Mayor Daley’s disdain for the Cubs I bet it will take years to even move an inch on such a project. Hence why I don’t think it is out of the realm of possibility that the new owner abandons Wrigley and starts anew.

…that so many Cub fans would be willing to throw th