Wrigley Rooftop refusing to pay Cubs 2008 share.

I'm not entirely sure of what kind of arrangement the team has with all the rooftop owners and from an outsiders perspective it seems that the sides generally don't like each other.

The Lakeview Baseball Club apparently had to appease it's customers for the Winter Classic because the jumbotron that was installed blocked their view. They offered the customers a free trip to Wrigley this summer and wanted the Cubs to pay the difference. Though, rather than try to work this out with the Cubs they've withheld their entire 2008 payment which was apparently due on 12/31.

almost 3 years ago CubFan81 10 comments 0 recs |

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Oh, brother

The rooftop owners are the most unsympathetic bunch of whiners this side of the Houston Astros.

They got rich by doing something analogous to stealing cable and charging their friends to come over and watch.

Take it up with the NHL, you big jerks. I hope the Cubs sue you for enough money to take on Jake Peavy’s contract for the next 5 years.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Feb 18, 2009 12:33 PM CST reply actions 4 recs

+44

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by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 18, 2009 12:59 PM CST up reply actions

hahahaha

classic.

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by All The Way on Feb 18, 2009 1:23 PM CST up reply actions

Time for some more wind screens

by N Oakley on Feb 18, 2009 1:13 PM CST up reply actions

Looks like

they have found the new place for a permanent jumbotron. I guess now they can ignore the game from behind a black behemoth of technological wonder.

"Ask Dad. He'll know. And on the off chance he doesn't, he'll make something up"

by StevenABQ on Feb 18, 2009 4:07 PM CST up reply actions

Rec'd

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by Al Yellon on Feb 18, 2009 2:06 PM CST up reply actions

Agreed...

but then again, I thought back when the screens were up and they were “negotiating” with the Cubs about how much of their revenue the team should get a cut of, that the rooftop owners claimed they weren’t charging people to come watch the game. They were only charging to come to a gathering on a rooftop, which coincidentally had a good view.

Either way, the Winter Classic was not even a game the rooftop owners could have anticipated. I wish the Cubs would say to the LBC representative that it was their good fortune to own a building next to a stadium and their misfortune to be the one with sight lines obstructed by NECESSARY equipment.

by CubFan81 on Feb 18, 2009 2:33 PM CST up reply actions

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The screens, FWIW, did almost nothing to block any views — it was a really dumb idea.

I got a piece of the screen — on the last day of 2002, some of the LF people cut them up (this was in the old bleachers where I sat in RF) and I have a piece that’s about 8×11, the size of a sheet of paper.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 18, 2009 4:56 PM CST up reply actions

Screw the greedy bastard rooftop owners

Rip up the agreement and put a great big damned net up to block their views. I was at a rooftop party last season. Chatting to the owner/hostess, all the guy did was piss and moan about the Cub organization. The same Cub organization that allows him to have a multi-million dollar roof enterprise and is the single driver for the extreme value appreciation in his friggin buidling.

by BLou on Feb 18, 2009 2:43 PM CST reply actions