Derwood

okay, making the huge assumption that everyone is healthy and able to pitch well, just what in the fark do you do with all these starters? 8 man rotation!

I think everyone should be required to have goatees. Or at least Matt Clement soul patches.

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well.....tearing down the manual scoreboard and putting up a jumbotron would be a big step in the "ruining the mystique" direction. I think i would be more pissed if they replaced the organ with obnoxious piped in music than anything else. Penn State football games are nearly unbearable during pregame warmups, etc. The music is SOOOO loud.

if ASU doesn't win in the Pac-10 this year, they'll be the first ever Pac-10 team to not win a conference game

Those spring training uniforms are 8 kinds of ugly

i would say that there have been quite a few people with bruised ribs. yes, clearly. I meant the falling out of the hot tub part.

i think we have a pretty good idea of what wrigley used to look like. And there weren't ads? Maybe, maybe not. But there definitely weren't lights. Or luxury suites. Or electronic scoreboards. Or TV's in the grandstands. I guess Wrigley has been ruined for decades now. the "good old days" had a bunch of games with 8,000 people in attendance with games being called due to darkness

i bet they would. See, when you remove all the jokers who are at the park for the nostalgia and the beer, then all the real Cubs fans can actually get tickets. And all those people who live out in the burbs who can't get in to the city to see games will be more than happy to drive to the new park.

how does one come up with 4-6 days? it's not like there is a lot of history of others with this injury

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue). let's not act like the cubs are doing us any big favors. these ads are embarrassing. our pristine ballpark is becoming a parody of its former self, and people like you are stepping up and telling others the cubs are being nice to us. as soon as the cubs figure out a way to swing it so that people won't get mad and they won't lose money, they'll start working on a new ballpark. I guess you haven't noticed how just about every other team in baseball has built a new ballpark, including the recently announced plans for a new yankee stadium. The Cubs are indeed doing us a favor by only putting Under Armor logos on the doors and not building Tribune Park out in Batavia As soon as they figure out how to move without losing the Lincoln Park beergarden crowd and pissing off half their fanbase , they will. These ads are just little steps towards that day. That's going to be pretty tough to figure out. They've already laid the groundwork with their contentious relationship with the neighborhood. The city isn't helping much either by declaring Wrigley a land mark, making any renovations more burdensome. The Cubs have had a contentious relationship with the city and neighborhood for years. This is nothing new. How are you going to turn Cubs fans against Wrigley? People are saying "as soon as they can figure out how to not piss off the fans." How exactly are they going to do this? The fact is, if you put last year's team in some new ballpark in the burbs, the Cubs probably cut their attendance by a third. The Tribune company knows this. They put an ad on the outfield doors. Let's not lose are mind about how the park is now a parody and this is the first step in moving the Cubs. True, the attendance would have been down last year-the attendance would probably be up overall if they went to a new ballpark though. I'm not advocating them going to a new ballpark whatsoever, but it probably would improve average attendance numbers. I don't think it would. The Cubs are perennially 6th in total attendance. It's not because they are good. If they built a larger stadium in the burbs and have teams as bad as they recently have had, I doubt they would match Wrigley's attendance numbers. the Cubs are 6th in attendance because they sell out a 38,000 seat park. If they had a 45,000 seat park, the % of tickets sold could go down but the overall attendance could go up

If Wrigley was a museum, it would be The Museum of Bad Baseball

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue). let's not act like the cubs are doing us any big favors. these ads are embarrassing. our pristine ballpark is becoming a parody of its former self, and people like you are stepping up and telling others the cubs are being nice to us. as soon as the cubs figure out a way to swing it so that people won't get mad and they won't lose money, they'll start working on a new ballpark. I guess you haven't noticed how just about every other team in baseball has built a new ballpark, including the recently announced plans for a new yankee stadium. The Cubs are indeed doing us a favor by only putting Under Armor logos on the doors and not building Tribune Park out in Batavia Ridiculous. Just as many people go to games to experience Wrigley Field as go to experience a Cubs game. "Wrigley Field" is just as much of a draw, if not MORE than "The Cubs". which, many would argue, is the very reason the front office isn't compelled to put as much effort as they can into fielding a winning club, as the place will be packed one way or the other. Personally, I'd rather have a championship team than a quaint ballpark (if I had to choose one or the other). Don't get me wrong, I love Wrigley and don't want it to go away, but the fact that people go there just to go is a problem in many ways so you like the ads because they may upset the fans? what is the argument now? also, the whole "championship team over quaint ballpark" is just a waste of time. a few years from now, im pretty sure we're going to have neither. There is a big difference between "liking the ads" and "not caring about them". I fall into the 2nd category. Would I prefer they not be there? Sure, but I'm not getting my panties in a bunch about it now that it's happening

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue). let's not act like the cubs are doing us any big favors. these ads are embarrassing. our pristine ballpark is becoming a parody of its former self, and people like you are stepping up and telling others the cubs are being nice to us. as soon as the cubs figure out a way to swing it so that people won't get mad and they won't lose money, they'll start working on a new ballpark. I guess you haven't noticed how just about every other team in baseball has built a new ballpark, including the recently announced plans for a new yankee stadium. The Cubs are indeed doing us a favor by only putting Under Armor logos on the doors and not building Tribune Park out in Batavia Ridiculous. Just as many people go to games to experience Wrigley Field as go to experience a Cubs game. "Wrigley Field" is just as much of a draw, if not MORE than "The Cubs". which, many would argue, is the very reason the front office isn't compelled to put as much effort as they can into fielding a winning club, as the place will be packed one way or the other. Personally, I'd rather have a championship team than a quaint ballpark (if I had to choose one or the other). Don't get me wrong, I love Wrigley and don't want it to go away, but the fact that people go there just to go is a problem in many ways

i'm not a huge conspiracy theorist, but the NBA lottery WOULD be a lot cooler if they actually did a live drawing of the ping pong balls instead of doing that in secret and then having david "no personality" stern pull cards out of envelopes

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue). let's not act like the cubs are doing us any big favors. these ads are embarrassing. our pristine ballpark is becoming a parody of its former self, and people like you are stepping up and telling others the cubs are being nice to us. as soon as the cubs figure out a way to swing it so that people won't get mad and they won't lose money, they'll start working on a new ballpark. I guess you haven't noticed how just about every other team in baseball has built a new ballpark, including the recently announced plans for a new yankee stadium. The Cubs are indeed doing us a favor by only putting Under Armor logos on the doors and not building Tribune Park out in Batavia

I remember when that shirt used to say 312 on it, as all of Chicago was 312 and all the suburbs were 708

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue).

Eastern League All Star Game tickets weren't hard to get. Not a sell out the first day or anything

Tim Hardaway hates Pitchers and Catchers

do players really need a special cap for batting practice?

tell that to Chicago Shakespeare

AGREED! I would not want it by the lake though. Summer is summer, but in April and May I could use a few extra degrees. I always thought a ballpark off I-90 right before the O'Hare turnoff. Then you are right on the Jefferson Park-O'Hare Train, near the tollway as well. And you would actually have room for parking. Make it happen Trib! Let's not get crazy. Yea, I'm not a huge fan of stadiums in isolated locations with highways and huge airports nearby. Personally, I'd love a new stadium right on the lake shore, as long as the park was designed tastefully. I know it's not realistically feasible and it'll likely never happen, but I think the Chicago lakefront would be one of the coolest locations ever for a ballpark. It would suck a little more in April and (dare I say) October, though. They could referbish the Navy Pier area. again? And put a new baseball park in. the logistics are a nightmare. too much of navy pier is very new.

AGREED! I would not want it by the lake though. Summer is summer, but in April and May I could use a few extra degrees. I always thought a ballpark off I-90 right before the O'Hare turnoff. Then you are right on the Jefferson Park-O'Hare Train, near the tollway as well. And you would actually have room for parking. Make it happen Trib! Let's not get crazy. Yea, I'm not a huge fan of stadiums in isolated locations with highways and huge airports nearby. Personally, I'd love a new stadium right on the lake shore, as long as the park was designed tastefully. I know it's not realistically feasible and it'll likely never happen, but I think the Chicago lakefront would be one of the coolest locations ever for a ballpark. It would suck a little more in April and (dare I say) October, though. They could referbish the Navy Pier area. again?

No only the 2nd or 3rd. To me ruining is not an all or nothing thing. I like baseball in the sunshine, I like seeing the brick behind home plate, and I like seeing the ivy and nothing else. They lessen the experience by doing this type of thing. funny, I got the ballpark to see two teams playing baseball. The surroundings are just gravy