Cubs to the Cell in 2013?

[brett05]

I hope not.

Two teams sharing a field would be a disaster on the grounds (grass).

I think you have to ultimately look at the finances. The Cubs spending a year or two at the Cell would give the Sox money, but in the grand scheme of things, the Cubs are the White Sox biggest competitor for money in the summer. If the Sox are the only baseball team in town, that will draw in a lot of people.

Reinsdorf also has the final say, and he has said he won't allow the Cubs to play there because the Cubs wouldn't let the Sox play at Wrigley while they were building the New Comiskey.

1). Baseball does not play havoc like football does
2). There was never a need for Wrigley

 

[nickofypres]

1). Baseball does not play havoc like football does
2). There was never a need for Wrigley

For both instances, I'm quoting Bossard (the grounds keeper...) and Reinsdorf themselves.

 

[nickofypres]

That is the most logical reason I've seen for why they shouldn't share the stadium. Kudos. With basically 162 home games the grounds crew would never have enough time to recover and then the Cell would look like Soldier Field at the end of the season.

This is more of a rumor though and I think the Cubs are going to try to do as much as they can to Wrigley Field over the offseason, although I don't know how the construction unions feel about trying to do work over the winter especially when most winters won't be as mild as what we've had this season.



There's a stretch of land along the Clark Street side adjacent to Wrigley that they were thinking of putting a "Triangle Building" to do the executive HQ thing. The McDonald's plot of land was just purchased but they didn't actually release a plan as far as I could tell.

I always thought the proposed triangle building was for all that?

Ah, see I thought the McDonald's lot is where they were building the Triangle building.

Dunno I guess, lol.

 

[DewsSox79]

JR would never let the cubs play there unless there was a big big profit that lined JRs pockets. And yes, the cubs never let the sox play there when the cell was being built, i dont care if that is new ownership over there or not, it just wont happen.