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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:09 am 
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I'm usually pleasantly surprised at the tipping of the beer vendors at Wrigley but it may depend where you sit.
I think a buck per beer is fair.

The owners of Trace are a friend of a friend so we'll hang out there if not actually going in to the game. Before the game is over a handful of vendors will roll in and they often have a couple hundred or more in tips BUT that's on a 80 and sunny weekend game.

What's the best practice if you're buying beer from a food stand?
I've always given a buck per order but I don't see much of that and it almost seems odd to keep doing it.

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 Post subject: Re: Wrigley construction
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I'm with Holmes on this, drinking at the park has never really appealed to me. I've only done it a couple of times maybe.

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One of my wife's girlfriends acted like we were some kind of degenerates for knowing the vendors' names. I've been going to 30 games a year forever. It would be weird not to know the names of the people that work there.


Just another one of those little things that makes baseball cool.

There's Scottie Pippen, the Asian guy with the robot glasses that does the speed trick, the guy that sings......And the guy with the pony tail that always works the stand outside the RF gate after the game whose name escapes me right now......

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 Post subject: Re: Wrigley construction
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I'm with Holmes on this, drinking at the park has never really appealed to me. I've only done it a couple of times maybe.
I honestly can't imagine sitting through a whole baseball game without having a drink. It was cool when I was 14 though.

I've never gone with kids though. I'm guessing you can't get drunk around kids once you have them.

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I've never gone with kids though. I'm guessing you can't get drunk around kids once you have them.

This doesn't stop anyone I know. :)

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One of my wife's girlfriends acted like we were some kind of degenerates for knowing the vendors' names. I've been going to 30 games a year forever. It would be weird not to know the names of the people that work there.


Just another one of those little things that makes baseball cool.

There's Scottie Pippen, the Asian guy with the robot glasses that does the speed trick, the guy that sings......And the guy with the pony tail that always works the stand outside the RF gate after the game whose name escapes me right now......


The singing guy is funny the first 10 times then it's like dude shut up.
The guy that looks like Tony D'Annunzio from Caddy Shack.
The guy that has the same bowl hairstyle (but gray) as the Raiders owner.

http://wrigleybeervendors.appspot.com/?_sm_au_=iVVnRWnfb4FHWssN

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 Post subject: Re: Wrigley construction
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I've never gone with kids though. I'm guessing you can't get drunk around kids once you have them.

This doesn't stop anyone I know. :)

Rick is going to be a horrible parent

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
I've never gone with kids though. I'm guessing you can't get drunk around kids once you have them.

This doesn't stop anyone I know. :)

Rick is going to be a horrible parent


When my kids see either of us drinking they say that we are doing drugs. I tell them to remember that wording when on the stand in divorce court.

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I yelled at my dad for drinking and driving when I was four. He had a can of Sprite in the cupholder.

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up in the 500's, we've got Les!

But I'm not a big beer drinker. I would say most of the time I hear "keep the change". But most of my section when I went every day were old-school season ticket holders. That's changed in the last few years.

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 Post subject: Re: Wrigley construction
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On a hot day, the slow vendors will sell you warm beer.

I like to buy from Stacey, Shaw, Lloyd, or Abe. Cindy was cool too but she doesn't work many games anymore. Lloyd has been posting a bunch of great old vendor photos in the Sox Fans On Deck Facebook group.

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On purchasing the land and property around Wrigley Field and why the family would want to own it

“The fact is that your baseball experience doesn’t start when you walk into the park. It starts when you get off the “L” or when you get out of your cab or when you park. We have to improve it from top to bottom not just give people more food options in Wrigley. We looked at … we were lucky enough that were some opportunities to buy the land, like the land across the street on Clark Street and now there’s some opportunities to buy a rooftop here or there. We want to control the game. We want to control the experience. And also outside the park it’s also a little embarrassing that Clark Street looks like it does after … I think the alderman even said it to me. Clark Street looks like it did 40 years ago or 50 years ago. We can do better. On non-game days we can make that area useful to the neighbors and that’s what we are going to do.”

Shoot, in 10 years you'll need to buy a ticket to enter Wrigleyville. Entrances can be found at Addison/Southport, Clark/Belmont and Clark/Irving Park. Thank you for supporting the "neighborhood"!

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Yeah, Clark Street, what a dump. Needs more billboards.

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I'm a big fan of the Ricketts ownership group.

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 Post subject: Re: Wrigley construction
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I'm a big fan of the Ricketts ownership group.



Of course you are. I'm sure his plans include a Cooper's Hawk.

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I'm a big fan of the Ricketts ownership group.



Of course you are. I'm sure his plans include a Cooper's Hawk.


5 years of jack's shit should never have any fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Of course you are. I'm sure his plans include a Cooper's Hawk.

I've never been. You may have me mistaken with someone else.

Like a woman that enjoys average wine in large volumes.

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Of course you are. I'm sure his plans include a Cooper's Hawk.

I've never been. You may have me mistaken with someone else.

Like a woman that enjoys average wine in large volumes.


When you lead the cheering section for turning Clark Street into Schaumburg, don't be shocked if people confuse you with one of them.

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As someone who has experienced Yawkey Way on game days in recent years, I hope the Cubs/Wrigleyville can be half of that. It was a great experience.

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It's going to become like cruise ship ports.

Get off the ship and every "local" shop is owned by the cruise ship company. :lol:


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Again, I missed something. Wasn't Wrigleyville itself supposed to be half the appeal of a Cubs game? everything about what a great neighborhood it is? But now we're saying that Clark Street is a terrible strip of dives and decay that needs the tender loving care that it can only get from Tom Ricketts and chain dining. I don't get it. I don't get anything anymore. Liking the Cubs used to be fun once.

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Again, I missed something. Wasn't Wrigleyville itself supposed to be half the appeal of a Cubs game? everything about what a great neighborhood it is? But now we're saying that Clark Street is a terrible strip of dives and decay that needs the tender loving care that it can only get from Tom Ricketts and chain dining. I don't get it. I don't get anything anymore. Liking the Cubs used to be fun once.

Ricketts is striving to replicate the Cardinals' Ballpark Village which strove to copy Wrigleyville. Genius!


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Again, I missed something. Wasn't Wrigleyville itself supposed to be half the appeal of a Cubs game? everything about what a great neighborhood it is? But now we're saying that Clark Street is a terrible strip of dives and decay that needs the tender loving care that it can only get from Tom Ricketts and chain dining. I don't get it. I don't get anything anymore. Liking the Cubs used to be fun once.

Ricketts is striving to replicate the Cardinals' Ballpark Village which strove to copy Wrigleyville. Genius!



An ersatz neighborhood experience is better than a genuine one. Less thugs and no Billy Cub!

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FYI, its called CLUB Wrigleyville these days. "The Bars" as they always love to say are few left. Even the Bars (Yakzees) have expanded to 3 times the size of what they used to be.

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FYI, its called CLUB Wrigleyville these days. "The Bars" as they always love to say are few left. Even the Bars (Yakzees) have expanded to 3 times the size of what they used to be.

Yakzees has expanded to 3 times the suck over the last 15 years too.
Used to not mind it, it's terrible now.

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FYI, its called CLUB Wrigleyville these days. "The Bars" as they always love to say are few left. Even the Bars (Yakzees) have expanded to 3 times the size of what they used to be.

Yakzees has expanded to 3 times the suck over the last 15 years too.
Used to not mind it, it's terrible now.



The bar may have expanded but the wings have contracted to the point that they may have come off of sparrows.

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The bar may have expanded but the wings have contracted to the point that they may have come off of sparrows.

You ain't kidding.

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Bleachers wont be ready til june, and the cubs want to be able to work 24-7.

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Bleachers wont be ready til june, and the cubs want to be able to work 24-7.


Don't worry no one will report on this the kids are coming of age. Perhaps "they can play?"

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spanky wrote:
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FYI, its called CLUB Wrigleyville these days. "The Bars" as they always love to say are few left. Even the Bars (Yakzees) have expanded to 3 times the size of what they used to be.

Yakzees has expanded to 3 times the suck over the last 15 years too.
Used to not mind it, it's terrible now.



The bar may have expanded but the wings have contracted to the point that they may have come off of sparrows.

Agree, its like buffalo joes. Literally mini wings.

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