All Wrigley Field renovation thread

[dabynsky]

Cubs will light up Wrigley Field, eventually - Blogs On Sports - Crain's Chicago Business

I think the last few lines about as long as the scoreboard is manual and there are vines on the wall we will adjust is the truest statement about this situation. Wrigley Field like anything is something that has been changed many, many times. As long as the novelties like the vines and the bullpen in foul territory are kept than I think the other changes are just things that had to be done to keep Wrigley Field a viable option for major league baseball in the future.

 

[DewsSox79]

Wrigley Field: Fix Up Or Build New?

Since this talk is in every thread, lets just put it into one.

 

[DewsSox79]

I say build new. I dont want to hear about tradition and shit. The yankees won a billion titles in what was a historic baseball stadium, if they build new so can the cubs.

 

[Rice Cube]

I'd build new. It'd be cheaper than patching up the old one every year. Problem is logistics though, as the Cubs would have to play somewhere else.

 

[Uman85]

Fix up Wrigley.

 

[inactiveuser1]

I say build new. I dont want to hear about tradition and shit. The yankees won a billion titles in what was a historic baseball stadium, if they build new so can the cubs.

The cubs haven't won one here in forever and it's a dump so I say new stadium

 

[FirstTimer]

Fix it.

If Fenway can be renovated. So can Wrigley

 

[Rice Cube]

Didn't one (or both) of Wrigley or Fenway burn at some point so they had to rebuild it then anyway? I may be totally mistaken so apologies if my history sucks. I'll try to Google it in case nobody has the answer. I'm not talking about the small mailroom fire this year at Fenway or whatever random electrical fires happened at Wrigley within the past few months.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Fix it.

If Fenway can be renovated. So can Wrigley

Wrigley is a dump compared to Fenway.

Blow the sumbitch up.

 

[Rice Cube]

Wrigley is a dump compared to Fenway.

Well, especially now that Fenway is renovated and Wrigley is still falling apart :lol:

 

[Capt. Serious]

I mean jesus christ, the thing has weeds growing on the OF walls. :lmao:

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

I'd build new. It'd be cheaper than patching up the old one every year. Problem is logistics though, as the Cubs would have to play somewhere else.

if they did a large scale renovation at a certain point, wouldn't that minimize some of the yearly patch up costs?

maybe i'm talking out of my ass here..i would like to see it fixed up

and lol@the winning argument, sure its great to have an iconic, historic, and good ballpark in terms of dimensions

but the stadium is merely the environment through which the game is played, not a prominent deciding factor in wins, really

 

[Mr. Cub]

I say fix it up. The place is too iconic. Plus I have never been there yet.

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

Build new.

 

[Shawon0Meter]

Fix the **** out of it

 

[nwfisch]

I say fix it up. The place is too iconic. Plus I have never been there yet.

Is your memory failing you Ernie :crying:

 

[Mr. Cub]

Is your memory failing you Ernie :crying:

Oh man, is that my ol' buddy Ronny? I miss him. And Billy? I am losing it.

 

[The Bandit]

Didn't one (or both) of Wrigley or Fenway burn at some point so they had to rebuild it then anyway? I may be totally mistaken so apologies if my history sucks. I'll try to Google it in case nobody has the answer. I'm not talking about the small mailroom fire this year at Fenway or whatever random electrical fires happened at Wrigley within the past few months.

Fenway did. I don't remember exactly when but it burned so bad that most if not all of it was rebuilt... Wrigley just suffers from decades of rejection and the base is shit now. You can't patch over a bad base cuz when the base goes all the patch work is gone anyways. I say build new.

 

[FirstTimer]

Didn't one (or both) of Wrigley or Fenway burn at some point so they had to rebuild it then anyway? I may be totally mistaken so apologies if my history sucks. I'll try to Google it in case nobody has the answer. I'm not talking about the small mailroom fire this year at Fenway or whatever random electrical fires happened at Wrigley within the past few months.

I mean the massive Fenway renovations of starting in the early 2000's.

Some small scale fires this decade didn't make the renovations required.

Fenway had some fires years and years ago but in the grand scheme of things that had little to nothing to do with the last decade of renovations

Wrigley is a dump compared to Fenway.

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No shit. Which is the point right now.

if they did a large scale renovation at a certain point, wouldn't that minimize some of the yearly patch up costs?

Correct.

Which is why Rickett's wants it all done at once.

 

[ChitwnRyan60452]

Blow it up, but only if Paul Sullivan is inside at the time...