No watch party at Wrigley

[Doubledown]

"We made a decision early on not to host watch parties during postseason away games and that decision has not changed," Cubs spokesman Julian Green said Monday.

In Cleveland, the Indians hosted watch parties at Progressive Field this weekend for Games 3, 4 and 5 and announced total attendance of more than 67,218.




http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...-world-series-watch-party-20161031-story.html

 

[Mr. Cub]

What thee ****??? This pisses me off. I was looking foward to.... Oh wait, never mind. I'm like 1500 miles from Wrigley.

 

[anotheridiot]

It just sucks watching clevelands fans watching the game in the park and us having an empty Wrigley. That just makes it look like their fans want it more.

I know Tunney has that ban on nite games on early week nights, but the ban is for games that are not nationally televised. I am more thinking that the chicago police would rather not have 200 officers out there when they could be at home not getting paid.

 

[PaytonHighstep]

It just sucks watching clevelands fans watching the game in the park and us having an empty Wrigley. That just makes it look like their fans want it more.

I know Tunney has that ban on nite games on early week nights, but the ban is for games that are not nationally televised. I am more thinking that the chicago police would rather not have 200 officers out there when they could be at home not getting paid.

True, but IF the Cubs pull out a win tonight, they'll have officers on the northside for crowd control anyway. Needless to say, they will have the full force out for game 7, if it happens. I don't think it has anything to do with the police and overtime pay. They'll be there regardless whether there are 10,000 fans in the stadium or not.