View Full Version : Do you think they will ever tear down Wrigley Field and when?
ZR56664
02-06-2006, 02:21 PM
I Wanted to know what you think about Wrigley Field and if it is ever replaced how you would feel about it.
Personally I would be crushed. Wrigley Field is the whole reason I go to the games. If they ever tear it down I don't know if I would ever want to go to another Cubs game again. There has been so much history thats happened there. If they don't win the world series for the rest of my life I still think Wrigley Field is the greatest ballpark in baseball and Cub fans are the best fans in baseball.
Slightly Sarcastic
02-06-2006, 02:50 PM
I Wanted to know what you think about Wrigley Field and if it is ever replaced how you would feel about it.
Personally I would be crushed. Wrigley Field is the whole reason I go to the games. If they ever tear it down I don't know if I would ever want to go to another Cubs game again. There has been so much history thats happened there. If they don't win the world series for the rest of my life I still think Wrigley Field is the greatest ballpark in baseball and Cub fans are the best fans in baseball.
I find this kind of statement to be completely absurd.
Of course, all Cub fans should love Wrigley(aside from the restrooms), but to say its the only reason to go to a Cubs game is just wrong. I certainly don't want to see it get torn down, but I would go see the Cubs play in any ballpark.
I go to Cubs games to see the Cubs win.
I agree with SS on this one, I would watch the Cubs play at my home little league field. Seats 45.. (65 if you count lawn chairs..)
I am a fan of the Cubs, Wrigley is an added extra... Keep in mind... nothing is bigger than the game... the All Stars, Field, Managers... and Fans traditions.... are all added extras...
The Cubs, the team, is the important thing.
There will come a time where Wrigley will have to go. I just hope the Cubs can win a world series one more time before then.
;)
KCGHOST
02-06-2006, 04:20 PM
The obvious answer is "when they decide to build a new park". And in the not too distant future they will have to as the physical structure that is Wrigley continues to crumble.
ZR56664
02-06-2006, 04:29 PM
There is no doubt I love to see the cubs win but just going to my first game at Wrigley was amazing. They lost but I got to see Derrek Lee's 25 home run which was awesome. It was the first time that I didn't really care that they lost. It was a great experience and I hope every Cubs fan gets a chance to see Wrigley in person before they do eventually have to tear it down.
thats just my opinion
And you are welcome to share your opinions here, anytime!
I agree with you when you say, I hope all Current Cub fans get one shot to see a game there... it is priceless...
:)
I am glad I got my trip in a few years back.
Slightly Sarcastic
02-06-2006, 04:39 PM
When I was in high school, we skipped school and took the el to Wrigley quite often. That scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off sums it up pretty well, although I've never wore a leopard print vest. During the summertime, I'd go to about 1 game per home series.
There is just no place on Earth like a 1:20 game at Wrigley.
burger eater
02-06-2006, 05:58 PM
I wouldn't worry about the Cubs re-locating in our lifetimes. They'll renovate before moving. With all the hand wringing that took place over the idea of bleacher expansion and the cost involved, there's no way they move in the forseeable future.
otis89
02-06-2006, 06:18 PM
If they ever decided to tear down Wrigley, that would spark one of the biggest riots in Chicago's history. It ain't going anywhere unless it falls down.
ndistops
02-06-2006, 07:10 PM
I agree with Otis. My buddies and I annually spend 300 bucks-plus to travel from South Bend to Chicago for 2 or 3 games, and I'm not sure we'd consider it worth it if not for Wrigley. I'd be a Cubs fan regardless, but Wrigley is the ultimate.
Bob Sacamento
02-06-2006, 10:44 PM
As of Feb 11, 2004, Wrigley Field was granted local landmark status, guarding its distinctive elements from alteration. City council voted unanimously for it.
"The Landmarks Committee worked diligently with the Cubs to make sure that their need to operate a viable, income-producing ballpark were not hampered by the city's need to preserve it as a landmark," says Jonathan Fine of Preservation Chicago.
A first-ever measure for a major professional sports venue in America, the designation protects Wrigley's exterior and unique features—its ivy-covered brick walls, marquee, grandstands, and manually operated scoreboard—but does not specify how the building must be used.
It also allows the franchise to modernize and perform routine upkeep on the electrical, plumbing, security, audio-visual, and seating amenities without bureaucratic entanglements. The expansion of the seating area behind home plate, already under way, is permitted as long as the brick wall in front of the additional seats is replaced.
Despite the designation, the Cubs, who play in major league baseball's second-oldest active ballpark, could build a new stadium elsewhere with more seating capacity, new luxury boxes, better parking, and more night games—all revenue generators. (Only Boston's Fenway Park and the vacant Tiger Stadium in Detroit, both built in 1912, are older than Wrigley.)
"I'm pleased we are able to preserve and protect this great stadium, keeping it economically vital well into the future, and helping the Chicago Cubs remain a competitive team for years to come," Mayor Richard M. Daley said in a statement Wednesday. "But protecting the surrounding neighborhood is just as important as the ballpark itself."
To keep Wrigley's neighbors happy, tied to the designation is a 12-year agreement that allows the Cubs to play 12 more night games per season and provides a plan to ameliorate traffic, parking, and public-behavior problems in the densely populated area around the stadium.
From Historical Preservation (http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news/021204.htm)
Cubsfan97
02-07-2006, 03:12 PM
I would be the one to stop Wrigley from being torn down. If they were to tear it down I'd have to be pulled away in cuffs. Wrigley and Wrigleyville is like the most sacred place foir me. I would die if it were torn down. I also skipped school one time But someone happen to recognize me and I got in soo much trouble. lol, Now I got to sit in seats where I wont be seen.
redwhitenblue
02-08-2006, 06:59 AM
good job bob, i was waiting for someone to point out it won't be 'torn down', even if the cubs have a new park
E.Banks#14
02-08-2006, 08:29 PM
Somewhat on this topic, I was watching the local FOX News tonight and the showed a picture of the batter's eye lounge that is being built. I hadn't even heard about this before tonight!? :confused: The picture showed it where some of the batter's eye shrubbery used to be. The report said that the windows would be tinted (green, I believe), and that this will be the only noticeable difference in the stadium in 2006.
It seems like the Cubs organization keeps adding and adding to the list of renovations, maybe I just have missed all of this info, but they keep surprising me. Too many changes for my liking...
http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/190.jpg
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060208&content_id=1308779&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
redwhitenblue
02-09-2006, 07:27 AM
Somewhat on this topic, I was watching the local FOX News tonight and the showed a picture of the batter's eye lounge that is being built. I hadn't even heard about this before tonight!? :confused: The picture showed it where some of the batter's eye shrubbery used to be. The report said that the windows would be tinted (green, I believe), and that this will be the only noticeable difference in the stadium in 2006.
It seems like the Cubs organization keeps adding and adding to the list of renovations, maybe I just have missed all of this info, but they keep surprising me. Too many changes for my liking...
yeah, a huge renovation happening...only 4 rows of juniper bushes, a lounge in straight away CF with a dark green glass shield, the new bleachers of course-and the way they are extending teh bleachers they are also raising the fence height behind the bleachers to where it would almost have to be a glenallen roof top shot to get out...you'll see much fewer balls on the street this year...also renovation alot of the concessions and roof area over the other seats
Cubsfan97
02-09-2006, 11:43 AM
I heard that its also gonna block a lot of the rooftop bleachers and that the buildings want to get their rooves raised. I hope they get it because Wrigley wouldnt be right w/o the rooftop bleachers.
ZR56664
02-09-2006, 12:20 PM
I think its sad, seeing the greatest ballpark in baseball being renovated. I mean yeah new things are great but nothing (other than new bathrooms) would make Wrigley Field better than it is
Bob Sacamento
02-09-2006, 12:40 PM
I think its sad, seeing the greatest ballpark in baseball being renovated. I mean yeah new things are great but nothing (other than new bathrooms) would make Wrigley Field better than it is
No, don't get rid of those troughs! They're part of Wrigley-lore.
burger eater
02-09-2006, 01:55 PM
You got that right, the urine troughs are the most efficient bathroom system known to man.
The Big C
02-09-2006, 04:56 PM
Naw, they are a close second to hotel swimming pools.
E.Banks#14
02-11-2006, 05:22 PM
No more restaurant lounge in the batter's eye; now the plan is to make it a 75-100 person suite.
Melottfan
02-12-2006, 10:34 AM
Had the pleasure of seeing a game from Wrigley, July 1986 before lights.They defeated the Giants, 10-6. Should they vacate the old lady of Chicago, why not make it a museum? If they do tear it down heaven forbid, they'll make the great Chicago fire of 1871 seem like a weinie roast.
redwhitenblue
02-12-2006, 02:07 PM
Had the pleasure of seeing a game from Wrigley, July 1986 before lights.They defeated the Giants, 10-6. Should they vacate the old lady of Chicago, why not make it a museum? If they do tear it down heaven forbid, they'll make the great Chicago fire of 1871 seem like a weinie roast.
they can't tear it down, as of right now it's a landmark
Larry Biittner
02-15-2006, 05:11 PM
Yes, I hope they never tear it down, but if they do, I will have lots of memories, having been there literally hundreds of times.:atthepc
Bob Sacamento
02-15-2006, 05:17 PM
Yes, I hope they never tear it down, but if they do, I will have lots of memories, having been there literally hundreds of times.:atthepcThey can't tear it down it's marked as a landmark. If the Cubs ever want a new home they have to move while Wrigley will still stand.
cubfanmom
02-16-2006, 03:19 AM
Cub fans are :grouchy about the bleacher renovations...
The city spent gazillions restoring teh' Chicago Bungalow and Frank Lloyd Wright homes.... Would we let Wrigley go? I sure as heck hope not. Take away the bungalows, Frank Lloyd as well as any other famous architectures first!
Why not restore? Everyone is sick to death everywhere about nostalgia being torn down.
maybe in 3008 they can tear it down !
sschirmer
02-16-2006, 04:35 AM
As a lifelong Cub fan, my first reaction to this thread was: :eek: !!!!
I do, however, have to admit that Wrigley has killed the Cubs for many years. The ballpark is such a draw, that management was apathetic for a couple decades. With Murphy's, Cubby Bear, Sports Corner, etc., people are going to come. It doesn't matter if the Cubs win 100 games or lose 100, people will come. They'll come to enjoy the bleachers, enjoy the sun, enjoy the ivy, but they WILL come. I love Wrigley, and I will always love Wrigley, but there are times when I can see what an albatross it has become to the Cubs being competitive. Throughout the 1990s the Tribune Company knew they would sell out, regardless of whether they fielded a winning team. They rode Wrigley all the way to the bank. They do seem to be spending money now, but I'm reminded of the lure of the Friendly Confines every time I see some moron on a cell phone on WGN waving to his dorky friends at home.