New stadium or stay at Wrigley?

[Ski]

Geez, you guys are all old.

 

Wrigley, 16.

[anabiono]

Geez, you guys are all old.

 

Wrigley, 16.

 

how's it goin' youngin'

 

:hello:

[Bote McBoteface]

New stadium, please.

 

21

[Proven Veteran]

They would need to get rid of a lot of neighbors to build a new park in the same place, the new ones are all gigantic.

[CubbieBum]

If Wrigley is gone there would be a hole in my fanhood of the Cubs. I just can't see watching the Cubs without Wrigley. They should do massive renovations but keep the look of the ball park intact. Plus a new ball park will likely get rid of the bleacher's and the first come first serve type of seating.

 

Wrigley - 23 years old

[CubbieBum]

Geez, you guys are all old.

 

Wrigley, 16.

 

how's it goin' youngin'

 

:hello:

 

Well his age certainly explains this thread http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=50951&start=0

[cubsfaninkansas]

wrigley renovated

 

38

[Bixby]

World Series followed by a new stadium, 23

[treebird]

new stadium 23

[CubFanPhilly]

A rennovated/rebuilt Wrigley (don't touch the bleachers or scoreboard, same general architecture, rennovate the EL stop, and add a large parking structure within walking distance). 40

[tubbfan]

43, new stadium

[SouthSideRyan]

I'll take parking over crappy bars, please.

 

Train FTW!

 

Plus, no need for a DD.

 

Yep driving to Wrigley is idiotic.

 

And Wrigley - 24

[imb]

don't care, 26

[reds44]

Just tear down the main area, build a new one, keep the bleachers, and put a video board on the bud roof.

 

And if that's not possible, new stadiu,

 

18--not a Cubs fan

[Shilzzz]

i am a fan of the cubs, and while it's nice that Wrigley is a part of that, i don't root for a stadium. i think it is entirely possible to have a new stadium that stays true to Wrigley, but is a better facility. i mean, we pay very good, hard earned cash for a very good to great atmosphere with good to poor actual seats. without belittling people who are in it for the whole experience, i'm in it for the baseball game. but then again, i loathe crowded bars and find drunk people to be generally annoying, so much of that atmosphere isn't really my thing.

 

with the cubs having built a decent record of winning (relative to the past) with these recent cub teams, the fan base is pretty solid, and people are going to come out to a new stadium, and with more seating, the cubs will have more payroll flexibility, which - so long as the gm is decent - means better players, scouts, and managers. which means the cubs should win more. which is what i value more than a stadium.

 

plus i feel bad that the players have to have those crappy club houses.

 

with all that said, i'd prefer a complete renovation, but would not be opposed whatsoever to a new stadium.

 

admit it, the chicago skyline behind the bleachers would be pretty dope on a friday night.

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

I'll take parking over crappy bars, please.

 

Train FTW!

 

Plus, no need for a DD.

 

Yep driving to Wrigley is idiotic.

 

And Wrigley - 24

 

Nobody's talking about driving to Wrigley as it is.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I like Wrigley and would love to see the Cubs play there as long as possible, but if a new stadium was done right, I would probably welcome one.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'll take parking over crappy bars, please.

 

I'll take atmosphere over the mall anyday. Screw parking. Take public transportation. The last thing we need is more reason to drive places, idling in traffic for hours. Mallparks suck.

 

Who is talking about a mallpark?

 

All that land at where Cabrini Green will eventually not be, surrounded by a really cool upcoming neighborhood, closer to downtown with the skyline right behind the outfield.

 

A) That would be nearly impossible.

B) How would that be at all different from Wrigleyville? You think they are just going to magically create "cool" bars and restaurants that beat the ones near Wrigley?

C) How is this going to solve the parking issue?

 

There are a lot of nice bars on Divison street. More would appear.

 

THere is enough land over there for parking too.

 

Why would it be impossible? The large housing projects are being torn down...and rightly so.

 

The skyline in the background with a bigger, better, brighter, Wrigley would be a dream come true. And NOT the Cell north.

 

Gooney's right in that it is pretty much impossible given the politics in this town...it's just the hypothetical I wish could have happened.

 

I'm not sure what he's trying to say with the bars. I said the neighborhood there is kinda cool now, in a funky wannabe boho sort of way, to contrast the negative image the neighborhood has had in the past. I don't care if they "beat" the ones around Wrigley, but it wouldn't be hard to do since Wrigleyville bars are awful, expensive frat fests.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'll take parking over crappy bars, please.

 

Train FTW!

 

Plus, no need for a DD.

 

Yep driving to Wrigley is idiotic.

 

And Wrigley - 24

 

Nobody's talking about driving to Wrigley as it is.

 

No, people are talking about constructing parking garages so that they can drive for no apparent reason.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'll take parking over crappy bars, please.

 

Train FTW!

 

Plus, no need for a DD.

 

Yep driving to Wrigley is idiotic.

 

And Wrigley - 24

 

Nobody's talking about driving to Wrigley as it is.

 

No, people are talking about constructing parking garages so that they can drive for no apparent reason.

 

Yes, if a new stadium was built somewhere else.

 

I just said I'd welcome extra parking if it meant demolishing all the crappy bars, stores, and pain in the ass property around much of Wrigley. It'll never happen, but I'm sick of that neighborhood making the Cubs jump through hoops to make any kind of improvements or changes to the stadium or the schedule.

[SouthSideRyan]

So you'd be all for it if it meant making the area completely sterile and free of anything not related to the Cubs game going on that day.

[Sammy Sofa]

So you'd be all for it if it meant making the area completely sterile and free of anything not related to the Cubs game going on that day.

 

I'd be all for anything that meant the Cubs wouldn't be beholden to crappy local politics.

 

In short, I'm all for something that'll never happen. And no, I wouldn't miss the awful bars and shops at all.

[rookiecmon]

Wrigley 49

[jacey]

Renovated Wrigley (leave the bleachers and scoreboard alone) age 42

[apete6]

Renovated Wrigley (leave the bleachers, scoreboard, marquee, light stantions, and newly redone playing surface), 26 years old.

 

I think they should just tear down the entire grandstand (everything except the Bleachers), rebuild the stadium pretty much exactly the same without the stupid poles in everyones way and just add luxury boxes and make the upper deck a bit higher with a few extra rows to compensate for the crappy terrace reserved seats that you will lose with the addition/expansion of the luxury boxes. I'm not an architect, but if they could create an open concourse that you can see the field from (ala the newer stadiums), I'm all for it.

 

They could then redo the outside of the stadium in the same style of brick & green fencing that they used in the bleacher expansion. Then put the same marquee back where it is now.

 

Build some state of the art underground clubhouses/batting cages/weight rooms under where the players currently park. The visitors may have a longer walk to their clubhouse, but that's still better than that POS they have now.

 

On top of that, go ahead with the proposed "triangle" building with an official Cubs gift shop, hall of fame/museum (where the 2008 WS Championship trophy will go), and a few levels of premium parking above. Make this building look exactly like the stadium with the brick/green fencing look.

 

Add the proposed walkway from the premium parking to inside the stadium so all of the season ticket holders/luxury box people can just walk from their cars to their seats (because, lets be honest, most of them aren't going to Murphy's for an Old Style anyways).