Monday, July 04, 2005
I was at the Cub game yesterday. It was (save for the baseball), a beautiful day that I enjoyed in the company of my almost 8 yr old.
I could not help but think as I looked at the people on the rooftops the blue sky, and the majesty of Wrigley Field on this July 4th eve, "what a craphole this ballpark is".
I have loved and savored the sentiment of Wrigley Field as much as the next guy/girl (I may be in my 40's now but I won't say gal). Hell I was a vendor there for 5 seasons and probably served some of you.
But this park is done. I have no idea how they concluded at Tribville that they should put more money into this place. Daley, given his loathing of the Trib ought to have the place condemned. I sat 8 rows behind the Cub dugout at the Cell last week, and (watch for lightening), it's a better place to view a game.
Wrigley is falling apart. You can't watch the great plays on replay, (I would have loved to see that leaping catch in the vines again). You cannot park there, which doesn't effect me now but might again someday. The vendors are always in your way (oh the irony). You cannot move through the concourse when it's a big crowd. And don't get me started with the antique ushers who put out their stools between innings so you cannot get by. This does not mean ushers are shitting between innings. Does every usher have to be as old as the park?
It has none of the new age amenities (kids attractions etc.)
"But it's real baseball". It is? With all the phone boning drunkards and the 97 yrs of Championshipfree competition?
"But you hardened, bitter man. What of tradition?"
What of it? Boston Garden was a rathole. It's gone. The Montreal Forum? Gone. Yankee Stadium is on the way out. You want to tell me those 3 places have any less tradition in their sports than Wrigley? A whole lot more important moments per each sport was seen in those places.
I don't know how much more time the Trib bought themselves with the expansion on a falling apart building. But it is time to raze this dump and build fresh. If they cannot use the current lot then so be it.
I could not help but think as I looked at the people on the rooftops the blue sky, and the majesty of Wrigley Field on this July 4th eve, "what a craphole this ballpark is".
I have loved and savored the sentiment of Wrigley Field as much as the next guy/girl (I may be in my 40's now but I won't say gal). Hell I was a vendor there for 5 seasons and probably served some of you.
But this park is done. I have no idea how they concluded at Tribville that they should put more money into this place. Daley, given his loathing of the Trib ought to have the place condemned. I sat 8 rows behind the Cub dugout at the Cell last week, and (watch for lightening), it's a better place to view a game.
Wrigley is falling apart. You can't watch the great plays on replay, (I would have loved to see that leaping catch in the vines again). You cannot park there, which doesn't effect me now but might again someday. The vendors are always in your way (oh the irony). You cannot move through the concourse when it's a big crowd. And don't get me started with the antique ushers who put out their stools between innings so you cannot get by. This does not mean ushers are shitting between innings. Does every usher have to be as old as the park?
It has none of the new age amenities (kids attractions etc.)
"But it's real baseball". It is? With all the phone boning drunkards and the 97 yrs of Championshipfree competition?
"But you hardened, bitter man. What of tradition?"
What of it? Boston Garden was a rathole. It's gone. The Montreal Forum? Gone. Yankee Stadium is on the way out. You want to tell me those 3 places have any less tradition in their sports than Wrigley? A whole lot more important moments per each sport was seen in those places.
I don't know how much more time the Trib bought themselves with the expansion on a falling apart building. But it is time to raze this dump and build fresh. If they cannot use the current lot then so be it.
# posted by Jay @ 9:23 AM 
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