No Mully, but more dumb stuff about the Cubs threatening to move to Rosemont or Arlington Heights. All while they're using a 100 year old ballpark as the centerpiece of a huge marketing campaign and recreating the rooftops at their new spring training facility. That would be the biggest Who Ya Crappin'? ever.

Liquid breakfast JORR?

It is Friday

JORR is taking the removal of Arlington to personal, but it's the best solutuion for Ricketts.

he could get the city of AH to pay for a big chunk of the infrastructure and he could have it done in less than 2 years.

Not sure why Quinn hates horse racing so much, or gambling in general, but going to Arlington is one of the nicer things to do in this state! clean, well kept, decent service, etc.Guessing they dont kick back enough into the hoppers to have political interests.

Right now is when Ricketts should be having the meetings!

It would cause some SERIOUS issues in this city! Imagine all these guys with bars that put millions into it and they lose the cubs because the Alderman went to the wall with the rooftop shitheads!

but the "Wrigley Townhomes" would be pretty nice. I assume they would start at 699K

The Cubs have more leverage than any other business in this state. They should use it.

Leverage to do what? Leave the biggest cash cow in MLB for a suburban mall? Yeah, threatening to do that would raise Ricketts' IQ at least ten points.

You don't think the Cubs have leverage? Really??? Are you one of Tom Ricketts' Mults?

What's their leverage? "If you don't give us whatever we want we're going to go make less money in Schaumburg."? I'm sure Rahm Emanuel would crap his pants at that idle threat.

But Matt he said he won't move.

You don't think the possibility of one of the city's biggest tourist attractions moving wouldn't worry Emanuel?

Think about what you just wrote there. The tourist attraction is the ballpark. Not the team that usually doesn't compete. I think the idiot that moved the team away from the tourist attraction should be more worried than the mayor that let him. And Ricketts was smart enough to understand that he really didn't have any leverage. It would be like Scorehead threatening to move to Gary if Schaumburg or wherever he lives didn't lower his taxes. Unrealistic and therefore impotent.

I'm gonna go out on a limb & say that the Cubs have a little more leverage than I do.
Regarding Ricketts, do you really think that he has been smart in the way that he has managed his business? Do you really believe that he doesn't have any leverage? Come on now. If fan Boy Tommy would have played his cards right & used his leverage, the Wrigley Field renovations would have already been done. He's a 2nd gen silver spoon lightweight.
You cant say that Ricketts owns the most popular tourist attraction but doesn't have any leverage. That just doesn't make sense at all.
I love it when my clients have leverage but don't realize it.

You are missing the point, Numbnuts had leverage n pissed it away from day one with his " we are not moving anywhere " its irrelevant if it was an idle threat or not, Rahm could have atleast used that to throw him a bone...but Ricketts was too dumb to know how to negotiate . I agree with you on the rubes coming in droves for the park ...but those dumb fucks would travel to Rosemont or Addison to watch a game in a new stadium as well.

Do you honestly think the Sox were ever going to move to Gary or St Petersburg ?

Gary, no; St. Petersburg, yes. They built a new stadium on spec, baseball had been trying to get in on Tampa Bay for years (Giants, Mariners, I think even the Blue Jays), and the gap was starting to widen between the Cubs and Sox due to WGN. It wasn't unthinkable. Hey, the Dodgers moved.

And the Bears are a bad comparison. Football isn't the same as baseball. Bear fans would go wherever the Bears play. It would be fine if they were in Schaumburg. Fetishization of the stadiums (or "stadia" if you're dan bernstein) isn't part of the NFL the way it is in MLB where guys like Jay Buckley get fat leading tours and people have lists checking off the parks where they have seen games.

I agree with this, with the exception of Lambeau Field. It would not have broken my heart at all if the Bears had moved to Schaumburg or Rosemont or Elk Grove or wherever. If the Bears had gone away, that part of the lakefront could have been restored to public space instead of having a big dumb spaceship squatting amid the museums and parks.