Assuming that's representative of how it will really look, it's clear now - if it wasn't before - that people bemoaning the signage additions to Wrigley were either mentally defective, had a fiscal axe to grind, or a bit of both.

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It isn't, so I'll cut you off there.

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Just name names.

Beth Murphy is all of those things and then some.

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I do hope it just says "Financial" on that one sign. Just remind everyone at the park how the shitbag owner inherited all his shitbag wealth from his shitbag dad by ripping off the middle class.

What would the one at Comiskey say? "TAX LOOPHOLES"?

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Those are concept pieces. Everyone knows those will be advertisements. However, since no one had paid at the time of their creation, they aren't going to give any companies free advertising.

We know the cursive at the top of the main videoboard is Wintrust Bank. We know right field is Budweiser. The rest we will see.

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Name names? Do you even know what you're typing half the time?

It was a general comment to idiots both here and abroad who couldn't wait to overturn the tables and crack the whip because the sacrosanct grounds of Wrigley were being mined for the almighty dollar.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Eat some sugar or something. Stabilize.

I thought you were referencing the rooftop owners. I'm such a bad guy for that.

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Would you prefer that people blindly assent to whatever the children of the corn want to slap up in the name of Monetization? I'm not here to root for billboards.

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"Real Estate"

"We will see." HAHA. They're not putting the Mona Lisa up there, it'll just about another brand for you to bow before.

Also, I don't care if they paid for it. The entire point of National Landmarks is that the ultra rich can't just soak these places and turn them into what Wrigley is obviously going to become.

I'd prefer folks let them actually prove they're not interested in building a winner but just interested in making money before actually lodging an otherwise empty complaint over it.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

The burden of proof is on the people who engineered five years of failure while scrounging for corporate welfare at every turn. How much more do I have to "let" them do?

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My thought is that it might be cool be have a videoboard in there and just modernize it a little
bit. I don't think they are going overboard or anything with it. I'll admit that "fan friendly"
is a pretty generic term.

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And why does that bother you? Wrigley Field is not a National Historic Landmark. It is eligible to be one. It never became one. It is simply a city landmark.

Even if it does become one, that does not mean it can never be updated or modernized. The Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium are both National Historic Landmarks. Both have been heavily changed over the years.

Wrigley Field is first and foremost an entertainment facility for a professional sports franchise. It isn't a State Park.

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Everything is a cog in our big, brutal sucking economy. If it exists, it must be a commodity. Wrigley belongs to Cubs fans, and they watched some loser hick from Nebraska steal it from them.

Wrigley field belongs to its owners.

This board belongs to its owner.

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Just like you belong to your owner, right?

Please explain this thought.

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This may be the biggest attitude change I've seen in the past 10 years.

Wrigley is no longer special. 10 years ago, you'd be yelled at if you thought that Wrigley wasn't one of the truly great landmarks in our whole country.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Someone's got you being their bitch. It could be your employer, a bank, the IRS... if all you're looking for is a deed to determine true ownerships take a look at those paychecks you need to pay all those bills.

I don't think you know what the term 'mutual benefit' means.

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I'm not going to go too far off the rails here, but if your idea of mutual benefit is surrendering 1/3 of your life so you can pay bills for stuff as ubiquitous as water I don't know what to say.

40 divided by 168 is 23.8%. Not 33%. And sometimes it is less than 40 a week. And sometimes it is more. It fluctuates, based on how quickly I get things done and what needs to get done. Today I worked about 4 hours. Additionally, I believe most folks paychecks cover more than water, food, rent, etc. So for less than one fourth of my time, I get to enjoy the other 75% pretty well.

I like this trade, as it is mutually beneficial to my company and myself.

edit: And you know what...out of the x amount of hours I spend at the office or working from home every week... some of those are even *gasp* enjoyable.

I like what I do.

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Not bad. But mock ups always look better than the real thing.

If bleachers are behind now then how bad would they have been behind if we had weather like last year?!

I don't think anything is behind. That might have been a way to build public pressure to help negotiate with a union or some workers or something.

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Oh, the Cubs indeed

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ba ... story.html

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Maybe you shouldn't have torn down bleachers that weren't even fuckin' nine years old. I'm sure the advertisements will be exquisite, though.

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This is the type of wacko that gets on a plane to Syria.
We get it...you got fired from Walmart for burning an American flag while beating off to Bernie Sanders in the electronics department.

Go hit up a Jihad board somewhere you pathetic cry baby.

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