It has teleportation stations, a runway big enough for the Concorde, and on Thursdays they let you land your hot air balloon in the outfield.

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Rios can't get under that, either.

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Aren't you already on record that you are one of those people that "hates driving in the city"? If you can't handle driving to the Field Museum on a Saturday morning you probably can't handle driving to a baseball game.

Of course it can sometimes take a little while for room to clear up but so does the line of 10,000 people waiting to jam into a train and then the 30-120 minute train ride home rubbing up against a bunch of sweaty baseball fans.

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Agreed. But when the Cubs play at the Cell, half of the fans will leave in the bottom of the 7th after beer sales are cutoff. That helps things for the few who stay til the end of the game.

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Why don't the Cubs just cancel this season since they are going to be awful and renovate Wrigley now?

There is almost always street parking on Damen available if youre willing to make the LOTR length 10 block walk

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The wrigley pace bus out of Schaumburg is pretty fucking nice. I mean, if you don't mind leaving immediately after the game. It's like $6 round trip and you sober up by the time you gotta drive out of the Schaumburg lot... and its usually a spirited crowd on the bus, not the dour death be wished upon us types that ride busses normally.

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Yeah, but with that kind of monetization, you'd have five World Series titles to show for it!

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Has a team ever had any success playing in a temporary stadium?

Like playoff games?

Z threw his no hitter at "home" in Miller Park.

Maybe the Packers at Milwaukee County Stadium?

1974 Yankees won 89 games, finished 2 games behind the O's. They played 74 and 75 at Shea Stadium

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Those and the Bears in Champagne are the ones I could think of.


But I dont think the cubs were HOME. The Astros were. Because the hurricane was in Houston, not Chicago

Oh yeah. I just remember it as a home game because of elmhurst steve's annoying posts about it.
hurricane ditka

The Bears in Champaign sucked. I think they were like 5-11 that season. I remember going to the game when Mornengwig kicked off to start OT though.

edit, maybe SR86 knows, but didn't the Giants play at Yankee Stadium for a while?
No recent success at "home away from home" stadium that I can think of though.

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There is going to be a whole lot of suck going on in US Cellular in 2013.

Yes, I'm on record, and I've been perfectly happy taking the trains to our many fine museums, so I would do the same for a Cubs game. I'd rather get jostled and nudged in a pack of stupid drunk people than be on the roads with them.

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4-12 in the Champaign season, apparently. Even worse. Can't believe they couldn't set up shop at Northwestern's stadium. It can't be that much smaller and parking-deficient than Soldier Field.

The Giants played at Yankee Stadium full-time up through the mid-1970s, the same way the Bears were the secondary tenant at Wrigley. They played at Shea and Yale (shale?) between Yankee Stadium and Giants Stadium. The Giants were a non-factor throughout the '70s, so no home-away-from-home success there.

The Seahawks played at the University of Washington when the Kingdome collapsed and then when it was demolished for the new stadium, and I think they were just their usual plus-minus .500 selves there.

Can't really call County Stadium a "temporary venue" for the Packers, because they had always scheduled a couple games in Milwaukee all the way up unil the '90s, sort of like how the Celtics always played a game or two in Hartford till they built the FleetCenter. I think the Super Bowl season in '96 was the first time they'd ever played a full slate in Green Bay, actually.

The Saints were terrible in the Meadowlands/Baton Rouge/San Antonio season.

I think the Dodgers won the World Series at the Los Angeles Coliseum. There, I think that's the only one.

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My point though is that you already think driving in the city is not worth it so of course you wouldn't want to drive to a baseball game in the city. Some of us are able to handle the stress of it.

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Polo Grounds (1925–1955) HOME
Yankee Stadium (1956–1973) HOME
Yale Bowl (1973–1974) HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Shea Stadium (1975) HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Giants Stadium (1976–2009) HOME
New Giants Stadium (2010–present) HOME

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Metlife paid a lot of money for those naming rights, respect that.

The Dodgers won a world series at the Coliseum.

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