Derwood

agreed. It should be Tampax Field at Massengil Park, brought to you by Vagisil

wins and losses don't mean anything

lol Purdue won lol

oh great, now we have a PADRES fan on the board

oh well

some player on aTm is out for the Alamo Bowl. don't know how important he is

there's also dodger stadium and angel stadium - neither bearing a corporate name. my point is, a team like the cubs does not have to put a corporate name on the ballpark to be one of the larger-revenue teams in the game. wasn't the Angels stadium called Edison Field for a long time? 6 years from 1997-2003. interesting, since it was a 20 year naming rights deal

should've landed A-Rod when the fire was hot

Penn State downs the mighty Toothpaste U. to go 7-4

there's also dodger stadium and angel stadium - neither bearing a corporate name. my point is, a team like the cubs does not have to put a corporate name on the ballpark to be one of the larger-revenue teams in the game. wasn't the Angels stadium called Edison Field for a long time?

Why is this so hard to grasp? Yes, we all understand that the primary purpose of an MLB team is to win the World Series. That's obviously the first and foremost concern for all the players, fans, executives, and the city as a whole. But why the oft-used implication that this can come at the expense of practically everything else? Winning may be everything, but when you're a fan of a sports team, it's not the only thing. Willingness to throw aspects that make the Cubs the Cubs under the bus just to win a World Series is disgusting ... if you renamed the ballpark to Tampax Field, and the club became the Chicago Hygenics, and the uniform colors switched to pink and powder blue, and the place was plastered wall-to-wall with Massengill advertising, but - oh! Hallelujah! - they win the World Series, is it really worth it in the end? Are you satisfied with having sold a part of your identity for that victory? Maybe my example is blowing things way out of proportion, but no more so than your original premise. The ballpark's name is important, more important to most fans than some may realize. And selling the naming rights - altering a core factor of the team and changing something all Cubs fans relate to and identify with - does not guarantee anything, nor do I think it would change much in the way of team payroll. not winning is what makes the Cubs the Cubs. so yes, i'd like to change some tradition

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there are 100 things more important to worry about with the Cubs than this If the Cubs win 10 straight world series in Tampax Park w/ Wings instead of Wrigley Field, is this really a problem?

nothing is sacred anymore. there are naming rights on the Rose Bowl, i'm sure there will be on the Olympics, etc. I agree about the Giants stadium, but that is simply a matter of companies getting bought by other companies (Pac Bell by AT&T, etc., whatever or Bank One getting bought by Chase)

I can live with a renaming if it's something like "Wrigley Field at AT&T Park" or something

countdown till the 29th, when Penn State goes for it's 9th win so it can fool itself into thinking it had a good year

quick question, why can't Roberts play SS and DeRosa play 2B?

solid as in not liquid or vapor? /stolen joke

i bet his CD collection is sorted by first name too. Oh, and iTunes puts everyone's name as, for example, "Johnny Cash" instead of "Cash, Johnny", forcing me to rename everything I import or buy :evil:

On a scale of 1 to 10, we need a pitcher more than Roberts

i hate Felix Pie because there are roughly 87 threads about him on this board

29 is a weird number

yes. i couldn't get on it for a few hours after that deal was announced

what this board needs are more threads about Felix Pie

I think he's the ultimate combination of Scott Bullett, Kevin Roberson and Ozzie Timmons, but with Derrick May's baseball acumen