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Tribune: Cubs to add seats, signs at Wrigley

The Cubs received permission to add 70 “bullpen box seats” along the third base line at Wrigley Field and install additional signage inside the park.

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The new seats would clip off part of the photographers’ bay along the left-field line and the Tribune reported in December that the seats would probably be sold much like the bullpen boxes down the right-field line, one of three current premium categories, along with the dugout boxes and the bleacher boxes. There are 82 seats down the right-field line from the end of the visitors’ dugout to the bullpen.

Pretty soon there’s not going to be any foul territory left.

Weeks T. Olive Posted: January 04, 2008 at 11:43 PM | 15 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Gamingboy Posted: January 04, 2008 at 11:51 PM (#2660580)

Has it been agreed upon yet in the Baseball Fan Hive Mind that we will all rise en masse and lynch anyone who cuts down the ivy at Wrigley to make way for ads? I know they aren't going to yet, but as they look for more and more places to put ads and seats, they are, as Weeks T. Olive said, gonna run out of Foul Territory or, as we all fear, cut down the Ivy, leading to mass uprising by every Baseball fan with a single feeling for tradition anywhere in their body.

2. Tuque

Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:08 AM (#2660597)

yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeye cubs in da haus!!!

cash money. read my lips JOHAN SANTANA is coming to OUR TEAM. and we will pay him in LIQUID GOLD.

3. Yeaarrgghhhh Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:11 AM (#2660601)

focus Barack, focus! You can't let the momentum slip away by wasting your time at BBTF. You'll have plenty of time for that once you're in the oval office.

4. Bob Dernier Cri

Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:19 AM (#2660603)

I expect Hillary Clinton will be here in a few minutes to say that her campaign is really all about bringing Johan Santana to the Cubs.

5. Rodder Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:20 AM (#2660604)

She would actually propose that Santana pitch sometimes for the Cubs, and sometimes for the Yankees.

6. Dewey, Steven Wright Wannabe and Soupuss Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:21 AM (#2660605)

I thought that Barack Obama was a White Sox fan. Flip-flopper.

7. Srul Itza Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:31 AM (#2660614)

Pretty soon there’s not going to be any foul territory left.

Good. Wrigley plays far too much like a pitcher's park. This will at least give the hitters a chance.

8. 3Com Park Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:32 AM (#2660615)

This is really going to piss off Moises Alou.

9. hscs Posted: January 05, 2008 at 12:45 AM (#2660629)

Has it been agreed upon yet in the Baseball Fan Hive Mind that we will all rise en masse and lynch anyone who cuts down the ivy at Wrigley to make way for ads?

There aren't any Cubs fans willing to do it. The same corporations buying ads buy the tickets Jon and Jane Nuevomoney use to attend the game. And White Sox fans can't wait to see if Bill Veeck really painted a giant phallus under all that ivy.

10. Moe Greene Posted: January 05, 2008 at 01:39 AM (#2660670)

A 7-inning pitcher like Santana isn't worth much anymore now that games apparently last 50 innings.

11. Nasty Nate Posted: January 05, 2008 at 02:46 AM (#2660737)

I wonder if the NY teams notice the new seats being crammed into every nook and cranny of Wrigley and Fenway as they plan their capacity-reduced new stadia.

12. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: January 05, 2008 at 02:51 AM (#2660741)

I expect Hillary Clinton will be here in a few minutes to say that her campaign is really all about bringing Johan Santana to the Cubs.

You mean to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, don't you?

13. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: January 05, 2008 at 03:07 AM (#2660744)

Ok, how much are these 72 expected to net the Cubs a year? (I'm ballparking this at a bit over half a million, at a rate of 70 times 81 times $90 to $100 per game9.

14. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: January 05, 2008 at 04:13 AM (#2660772)

I like ads at baseball parks, and I really don't get why so many people find them so annoying. There gets to be a point where advertising can be quite annoying, but I've always found signs to be pretty inocuous, if not a colorful part of the ballpark.

15. Golfing Great Mitch Cumstein Posted: January 05, 2008 at 05:52 AM (#2660808)

I wonder if the NY teams notice the new seats being crammed into every nook and cranny of Wrigley and Fenway as they plan their capacity-reduced new stadia.

The new Yankees Stadium will be over 50,000 and Citi Field will be in the mid-40's with standing room. The Cubs will be around 42 and the Red Sox are pressing to break 40. Besides, the new stadia can be capacity-reduced while still having the seats the Red Sox and Cubs cram into their stadia. The trick is to reduce the overall number of seats to create scarcity while putting in premium seats like the Cubs and Red Sox have done.

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