Curious Hair wrote:
Refurbished facade: hell yes. Everyone loves the sign and The Corner Of Clark And Addison, but the cyclone fencing in front of ramps always looked trashy to me. I believe I've called for them to put up some wrought iron or something nice instead. I like this.
Concourses: looks good to me, but all that really matters to me with a concourse at Wrigley is that you can get to your seat. Let's be real here, the Cubs don't exactly need to devote their interior to honoring their years of legends and championships. Just have good access, or as good as it can be with 30,000 bodies bustling through.
Improved player facilities: self-evident
Left field patio: the sightlines look like they'd be shit, but if you insist... (and we know it won't say "Wrigley Field," it'll say "Macy's" or "Charles Schwab" or "Cock Ring Warehouse")
Left field LED: I don't like it any more than I like the one in right, but at least it lends symmetry to a bad idea.
As for the city, the neighborhood, the Rickettses, and other powers that be: they need to realize Wrigleyville is a symbiotic relationship. The park is the neighborhood and the neighborhood is the park. It may take the neighborhood to be a voice of reason and say that too many night games or too much advertising will, in addition to spoiling their quality of life, compromise the atmosphere that people come to take in in the first place. At the same time, the neighborhood owes itself to the Cubs, and shutting down everything they suggest is just as much a case of golden-goose-icide as papering the joint in tacky ads and flashing lights. So I hope both sides can work together constructively. That the public won't be asked to finance it anymore should help a lot in that regard.
I have a bathroom closet they could do this in and still have room.
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