It won’t stop anything. Idiots will be idiots regardless of what time they stop drinking. People usually show up to these bars hammered (or close to it), so stopping sales around the 7th won’t drastically change anything. Also, if they clinched, I’m sure people would have their own stash of stuff right outside the bars somewhere.

If only they could ban those moronic post game tv trips to the bars where we see drunk morons on TV that clearly hate their mothers. (Nobody who loves their mother would embarass her that much!).

It’s always some moron reporter saying “We’re here at moronic bar central to show how morons celebrate”

I always wonder if these people act this stupid when they are sober.

It will keep people in the bars celebrating instead of congregating on the streets.

People are going to get hammered no matter the circumstance, and to compound it with extra police could also lead to overzealous law enforcement. Lets hope when this occurs ALL will use common sense. Yes I know, with 8-10 pops in the tank, that is tough, but at least we can hope for cool heads.

sit outside their building and sell beers to passers-by from their cooler.

i was at a bar before saturday’s game watching iowa’s football game and the fire marshalls came in a didn’t allow the bar to serve bottled beer, rather they had to open up a bottle and pour it into a plastic cup…..the waitresses didn’t like it, but a smart idea if you ask me

also wrigley continued to serve beer after the 7th inning…..is this s.o.p. during day games?

people will continue to drink via other routes. Are they going to try to make Gold Crown Liquors At the corner of Clark and Sheffield close too??

heads prevail. If the Cubs do win it all, I expect a lot of pent up emotion to come out. Couple that with alchohol and the Chicago police force’s tendency to handle things hamfistedly, you could really have a volatile situation. If the police let the drunks wear themselves out and don’t commit violence it will be OK. If a few cops feel like cracking a few heads, it could get ugly.

The 3 innings left in the game should last for about an hour. That’s enough time to let the alcohol go through the drunk’s blood stream, reducing the levels of alcohol in their bodies and in essence, sobering them for awhile. That may give the police time to avoid any bad situations, by reducing the number of severely drunk people in the streets immediately after the game.

This is similar to what teams do when they stop selling beer after the 7th inning.

of a clinching game…..I can tell you for sure that I will NOT be fighting my way to the bar to order a drink.

I’m sure bar owners would love to cut off their revenue stream for an hour or more during their busiest times.

Here’s an idea, how about the the State of Illinois not collecting tolls during rush hour?

everyone is making too much money off of it.

…they helped create this monster by issuing the liquor licensees allowing massive expansions to existing buildings (Casey Morans, John Barleycorn and most egregious is the new massive beer garden next to Sluggers on Clark)

The city that works – we will fine you, ticket you, tax you and then we are going to try and regulate how you celebrate as well.

I have a meeting in Chicago ending next Thursday afternoon. I changed my flight until Friday morning

What will the bar scene be like around Wrigley. Any insight from those who have been there in previous years would help

make people drink where there isn’t a ban like the Southport Corridor.

The police closed the bars three hours early and some idiots started a riot, flipping over cars and breaking windows.

The one thing you don’t want to do to those addicted to alcohol is tell them that they can’t get their fix.

to Chi-town for the beginning of the NLCS.

But maybe I should confine my drinking to the Southside.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m more likely to want to get drunk if they LOSE.

to start flowing again? This doesn’t make any sense. Would there be an arbitrary time?
Are extra inning games factored in?

This won’t happen. How can it? Tell a legit business you ’can’t sell’ for a few hours? In a crappy economy? I think lawyers would be lining up for this one…

This is what happens when you insist on electing an airport-bulldozing, ballot-box stuffing, truck hiring hack.

my buddies and I order 3 beers each.

Problem solved.

and that blathering south side ‘mayor’ bitching the bars won’t lose any money.

What a great way to try to absolve yourself of responsibility (or at a minimum, reducing it) by putting constraints on others. Way to go city of Chicago, you are a classic example of how personal responsibility has gone completely out the window oh these past 20-30 years.

23rd district police is right there at Addison and Halsted. How hard can this be? When my cousin was still alive, he always volunteered for these types of patrols. When there was a large and noticable police presence the schenanigans was greatly reduced. It’ll never be totally stopped by can be significantly controlled.

Hell, they can do it like at Chicago Stadium years ago. Announcement early: “The orange jacketed men are Chicago Police Officers. They will arrest you for disorderly conduct”. After that program began, fights and disorderly conduct were kept to an all time low.

Besides, this now is the time the CITY OF CHICAGO should be STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE and showing they have control of their operations. They DO WANT the 2016 summer Olympics, correct? Now is not the time to hose crowd control when the IOC is watching.

Maybe it’s just me but the first thought when the Cubs win the world series will not be how drunk and stupid I can get but how exciting it is.

Wah Wah I won’t be able to get drunk when the Cubs win it all. Cub fans want to celebrate not worry about how drunk they can get.

I’m more likely to want to get drunk if WE LOSE!

Of course being a mature adult the focus of my life is not getting drunk and acting dumb on tv.