When are they going to tear down Wrigley Field?
I grew up with Harry Carey on WGN and have been a minor Cubs fan my entire life, (I’m from New York, go Yankees) but they will never win until they tear down the field. It is heresy to say that as a baseball fan, but when I went, there was that “party” atmosphere and the feeling that said, “hey, I am at Wrigley, oh yeah, there is a game too.” The Cubs were blown out and no one cared. People go to Yankee Stadium, a stadium that has more history than any other stadium, to see the Yankees, they take the tour to gush about how sweet the stadium is. If the Cubs want to win, get a new stadium, if they want to still have one of the best baseball experiences, keep Wrigley.
Wrigley is quite possibly the worst stadium in baseball. I know it has been around forever, but that is just because the Tribune company is too cheap to tear it down and build something actually worth paying to go to. I mean if you are going to watch a pathetic joke of a franchise, at least be able to watch it in comfort. I live in Chicago and get free tickets to see the Cubs all the time, but I never go because the horrid stadium ruins even good games (which are rare with the cubs playing there). To top it all off, the food there is border line inedible. If you want to see how truly bad it is, take the overpriced tour and see how your old middle high locker room is twice as big and ten times as nice as the visitors closet… I mean locker room. Everyday now I pray Mark Cuban will buy the Cubs and tear down that ivy infested trash heap. My best guess for when the stadium gets torn down is when either Mark Prior and Kerry Wood combine for 45 starts, the Cubs win the World Series, or hel
If you want to tear down Wrigley, you don’t appreciate baseball. I may be one of the few that does not like the “party” atmosphere in the bleachers, but I do love going to the ballpark. The stadium is simple and made for watching baseball. They haven’t put in distractions for all the ADD kids that can’t sit still for 3 hours. When I go, I sit in the upper deck and enjoy the game.
It will take a lot to actually tear it down because it is a local landmark in Chicago and therefore needs the approval of many people to alter it in any way. I believe that the Cubs may move some day, maybe in the now too distant future but Wrigley itself will stand for many years to come with the new protection it received.
