HawaiiYou wrote:
Can't they just build a new ball park in the city? It's not like the Cubs need public $$ to do it, theyre filthy rich. Just make it a exact replica of Wrigley but 100 years newer. Ivy, Brick wall, etc....... but w/o the losing.
I mean they tore down old Yankee Stadium right for the new one? At least that place was known as a Championship ballpark. Who's really gonna miss 'old' wrigley field when the new one is built.
Fisking is so 20th century, so I'm just going to go down the line like so:
1) I highly doubt they would get anything done on the north side. It's enough of a bitch to deal with the neighborhoods and aldermen with a beloved institution. Nobody's going to want the disruption of a brand-new park, likely one with surface parking, parking garages, and tons more infrastructural stuff than we have at Wrigley now or would have with the Triangle Building Of Eventual Glory.
2) The Cubs do need public money; they're not filthy rich at all. Have we already forgotten Omaha Tommy's abortive shakedown?
3) It wouldn't be an exact replica. They would add skyboxes around the whole thing, which would push the upper deck far up and back as we saw with the infamous cross-sections of the two Comiskeys. The seats would be more expensive with worse sightlines.
4) The bricks and ivy are grandfathered into MLB field regulations and would be illegal in a newly contructed ballpark. All outfield walls now require full padding.
5) They tore down Yankee Stadium, but maybe they shouldn't have, because they did such a fucking terrible job building the new one that there were already significant cracks in the concrete not two years into its use. Also, it hasn't proven such a bright idea to price themselves out of so many customers. Does anyone sit in the lower deck of Yankee Stadium? Even if the tickets are bought, that's a lot of expensive concessions and parking that aren't being bought. Additionally, the new Yankee Stadium replaced a public park which the Yankees have yet to replace on the site of the old stadium. so you had public money being used to build things for billionaires while taking amenities away from everyday taxpayers, especially South Bronx kids who could use the recreation space instead of staying indoors growing asthmatic and diabetic. In this regard, fuck the Yankees, and I mean it more than most people usually do. Tearing down Yankee Stadium doesn't give the Cubs, Dodgers, or whoever else carte blanche to tear down their old parks. If anything, it shows why they shouldn't.
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