You’ll snark about anything, won’t you?

What is it you need, a 100-page document with a plan personally delivered to you? Just what is “the right way”? Got any thoughts about that? Or would you rather just criticize? (I already know the answers to those, since you won’t reply.)

This is just first-step cosmetic work, a “phase”, as you put it.. The Cubs plan to have Wrigley renovated by 2014. Sorry it’s not going fast enough for you.

Agreed. The outside of Wrigley is a pretty ugly building.

The inside is neat, but I don’t hold that much of a special bond with the place, so they can gut it all as far as I’m concerned.

Maybe they are doing it THE RIGHT WAY and they just didn’t think it was necessary to tell you about their “master plan.”

After all, it should only take a few hours, right?

Have Ricketts no brain?? Why in God’s name did he not hire 7,000 Amish men to “raise” Wrigley field in the span of a week? I think Rickett’s should be ordered by the league to sell the team immediately for not passing his plans over the desk of BLou before starting!

First of all, I really could care less if the outside of the stadium is ugly. What I do care is if the quality of the 25 men that call Wrigley home is ugly. Why bitch about some bricks and concrete?

Second, I’m not sure if this has been proposed but I would like the members of BCB to run a month long test. I think we should mandate a zero response to BLou rule. If nobody replies, you steal his thunder. Everyone just ignore him. That will cause him more anguish than anything.

… this isn’t the first step of a “full-scale master plan for reconstruction”?

You don’t.

the team, ownership, ballpark, fans, or blogs for that matter

Why don’t you do us all a favor and leave.

You must be an unhappy person 24/7. I feel bad for you. I’m still waiting for the Hawks trade for a defenseman Neidermeyer? At least I am able to come up with a name.

…..maybe when he got his MBA from Univ of Chicago? Or when he built his own business from scratch?

Seriously, people who smoke can do without for three hours.

Turn it green.

Every time I go to a game at Wrigley, I get a very healthy dose of second-hand smoke when I use the facilities.

It ALMOST makes me understand the behavior of two guys who were sitting behind us at an Opening Day at old Tiger stadium about 30 years ago. We were sitting in the second to the last row of the upper deck in RF. They were in the last row. When they had to take a leak, they turned around, unzipped and peed on the back wall of the ballpark. Seriously.

I stopped going to Opening Day games in Detroit after that. :-P

Most teams open 90 minutes before game time. The Cubs open two hours before. Any larger dollars made by, say, opening 30 minutes earlier would be offset by the extra money they’d have to pay the employees.

I can right click on the X and go to “show picture” and then I can see it. Sometimes that still doesn’t work though.

… on a sunny weekday afternoon on Addison St. in 1958.

…since I usually only make it up for a couple of games a year, but if you are up in the terrace reserved on the first base side, the street is literally right behind you. Addison is a pretty busy thoroughfare and you really do get alot of noise from outside the park…even with the panels in place and with the general crowd noise. The third base side is a little farther removed from the street, so it’s probably never really been an issue. I’m not saying keep the panels, but some sort of buffer probably wouldn’t be a bad thing.

To say nothing of someone (You know who you are!) who seems to think any and all decisions made relative to any aspect of the Cubs, from baseball operations to the color of the paint on the scoreboard’s internal steps, ought to be run through him because, after all, he knows far more than any other living, breathing human about such matters.

Me? I dislike my own run-on sentences sometimes. Other than that, I’ll leave it to the pros. I have a life.

Gutting the kitchen, overhauling the players’ lounge – some of these things should have been done decades ago. Eventually, yes, there are going to have to be some massive, massive changes. But there’s no way that can happen before mid-April.

BTW, love your user name.

Until the 1970’s, they used to have to walk through a fenced-off catwalk that was exposed to the concourse, so fans could see — and heckle — visiting players.

Sometimes they’d sit there and talk with fans during rain delays.

Hell, they didn’t even paint as often as they should have.

Most likely, everyone involved in that decision is deceased now, so we’ll never know for sure.

am happy to hear the work is part of a plan to eliminate the cold war era/eastern bloc concrete panels.

Doubtful that it will have any wind effect. There are no panels on the LF side, which is where most of the wind effect is (other than the wind blowing in).

And your name-any chance you are from Steven’s Point?