Which company will it be?

But i agree that Walgreens Field sounds better

Why would Walgreens need to get there name exposed if they already have stores in 48 states plus PR?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

Marshalls

DmL

it's about conspicuous consumption.  Companies put their names on fields to say "hey, look how well we're doing" -- or to say "hey, look how well we want you to think we're doing!"

Chase, Boeing, United, Microsoft, UBS...

Sounded real good when someone mentioned it a few weeks ago, the concessions would be awesome at least.  However, I don't think Portillo's makes quite the money that you'd need.

There are quite a few big companies in Chicagoland, so there are quite a few possibilities.  These are the ones I like:

Smurfit-Stone Stadium - perfect for our little blue men like Theriot and Fontenot.

Bally Fitness Field - with our tendancy to spend a considerable amount of time in rehab, this would work well.

Midway Games Park - the video game company that made Mortal Kombat would be perfect for a club famous for Barret vs. Perczynski, Barrret vs. Zambrano, The Bullpen vs. the broadcasters, Lee vs. Young, Farsworth vs. the bloody pulp that was Paul Wilson (fatality)...

Quaker Oats Park - Just because the dude on the box was a little boy when the park was built, plus I really want Wilford Brimley to throw out the first pitch on opening day.

True Value Field - a great name because the fear of irony might prevent the club from raising ticket prices any more.  

CDW Stadium - this one is just so the Sox and Cards fans can have witty things like "Cubs Don't Win Stadium" to say.  They have little brains, so we have to throw them a bone like that sometimes.

Discover Field - There are so many things I'd like the Cubs to discover...  

Pactiv Park - the company that makes Hefty bags would be way too fitting for some of the Cubs teams I've watched in my 34 years.

My favorite and my vote go to:

Ball Park Ball Park - The company that makes Ball Park Hot Dogs, Sara Lee, is based in Downers Grove and makes enough dough (yes, I'm aware of the bad pun) to buy the naming rights.  How perfect is this?

...so how about "Paid Political Consultants".  Or has anyone tried those "Sausages by Amy"?  Those are damn good and sausage fits with the corruption in the City government.  In the end it will be Exelon, they have the money and they may be ready to say "we're number one" in the power markets.  But it's also a risk to promote yourself as a winner corporation by associating yourself with the sport's biggest losers.  Maybe it will make the company's image more loveable?

Motorola Field.

Yeah, their stock plummeted lately, and they are strongly considering selling off their mobile phone side of the business.  

However, the rest of the company's balance sheet is strong, and acquiring the naming rights to the most sacred ballpark in the country is just the ticket (pun intended) to get the stock price climbing again.  It would get major shareholders like Carl Icann off their back for awhile.

either the re-naming would go something like "Chase bank Park at Wrigley Field" or something akin to what the Bears did, where the park name remains the same, but the team name changes, resulting in "The Chicago Cubs Baseball, brought to you by Walgreens."

But I have a feeling the Cubs are going to work really hard, quietly, to get Wrigley Gum Co. to pony up the $. They can afford it.

has a nice ring to it.

n/t

McDonalds?

Aren't they based in Oak Lawn?

I think they'd have the money

would be to sell the naming rights to Exxon Mobil.  They made $40.61 billion in profit last year. I'm sure they could afford it.

with an E

...but I don't care what they call Wrigley Field.   For all I care they can rename the joint Tampon Field and put pink curtains up in the dugout.  I care about winning a World Series Championship, period.   I've been attending games at Wrigley for three decades and love the joint.   But winning is what is most important.  Talking about Wrigley as a sacred shrine has forever distracted from what should be the real focus.   Just my two cents.  

You know how they have those rotating ad signs along the sides of basketball courts, usually under the scorer's table?  Or those billboards that constantly change ads?

Well, what if the Cubs applied this same concept to their naming rights?  Instead of hoping for one company to pay $20M, maybe there's 4 Chicago companies out there that would pony up $5M?  And anywhere they'd normally have signage promoting the field's name, they'd just make sure it was one of those rotating ad type signs.

Heck, why stop at 4?  Let's keep with Cubs tradition and go with 8.  They could call it the "College of Sponsors"...

It is the way of professional sports.  Every last opportunity to generate revenue is going to be exploited.  I don't like it either, but I also don't really care.   I love Wrigley as much as the next guy.   But I roll my eyes at the sappy sentimentality attached to the joint.   Wrigley is going to be "whored out" just like every other professional and collegiate sports facility in this country.  Like I said before, they can rename the joint Kotex Field and put pink curtains up in the dugout just so long as this franchise finally wins a World Series title soon.  

drinks, I could see PepsiCo ponying up some cash for Gatorade Park.