How Can We Make Wrigley Field Even UGLIER?
Oh, I know… cover the Clark and Addison entrance with a giant picture of Lou Piniella’s distended belly.
Look, everyone knows Wrigley Field is a dump. But everyone also knows it’s a dump we all love. Even I can admit to that.
It’s historic. It’s sentimental. It’s old timey.
Where else can you pay ten times the market price for a 20 ounce can of Old Style? Where else can you gather around a trough with a hundred other men and urinate in drunken unison? Where else can you go to hear D-list celebrities butcher a classic song by singing out of tune?
Only at Wrigley Field.
I was p!ssed when they added the Bud Light Bleachers (bleacher tickets should not be $44 a piece, people)… I was p!ssed when they added the Captain Morgan Club… and with the addition of these gaudy action portraits, I am beyond p!ssed at the team I love to hate.
People like Wrigley because it’s authentic. It’s classic. It’s historic.
And because the Cubs lose there.
But slowly, as they add an advertisement here, a sports bar there and a fully functioning urinal there, Wrigley Field is slowly becoming just like every place else…
Not Wrigley Field.
So don’t hate me… ‘cuz I’m right.
Peace,
Jeff
Red State Blue State
I thought Wrigley was supposed to be kind of charming. Yes, I know you hate the Cubs, but, hatred aside, is it really a dump?
- http://janeheller.mlblogs.com
Jane — The field itself is charming… the infrastructure, facilities and everything else that is not the actual field is run-down, dumpy and ugly
–Jeff
I believe this year the average ticket price at Wrigley is in the top 5 around major league baseball, if the highest, I think they just raised the prices… how can it be more than Yankee stadium to watch a game… will the fans be so carefree this year and throw beer as pricey as it is… I share your sentiments, its a dump and its becoming just like all those other commercialized sh!t holes…
-peter
Phillies Outside
http://devilabrit.mlblogs.com
I do not like all the add ons to the exterior either. They’re rather tacky! There’s beauty in simplicity. Gimmie back Weegham Park!
mike, BTB
Peter — Wrigely is the worst because they KNOW that they become a big deal by being nostalgic, yet slowly they’re letting that go and that, to me, is sad.
Mike — Weegham Park? Now that’s turnin’ back the clock brother!
–Jeff
Jeff, I saw that photo – and had indigestion. So much for “tradition.”
http://heirloom.mlblogs.com
Randy, exactly. Glad I’m not alone.
–Jeff
It’s ugly. No question about it. Just glad it’s not a permanent thing.
ryan
prose and ivy
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