I saw my first Cub’s game last weekend (with Jesus Creed reader/commenter Dan Brennan) and it was so much fun. I loved being in Wrigley Field. I’m not a huge baseball fan, but found the whole experience to be a blast. Cant wait to go again.

Here’s another, howbeit off-the-cuff assessment of Jennifer’s comment. She says something I have suspected for years to be the case. There are very few Cubs fans. What people really like is Wrigley Field.
I am not saying it’s wrong to like a ballpark or like Wrigley Field. Jennifer, by her own admission in not much of a baseball fan and I would imagine not much of a Cubs fan. But she loved being in Wrigley Field and she wants to go again.
Jennifer doesn’t speak for all people going to Wrigley. But I have this sneaking suspicion she speaks for more people than some of us would care to admit.
“I love Wrigley. But the Cubs? Feh!”
Play ball!

Hi Scot,
I’m a faithful reader of your blog who now lives in Thailand, but I was born & raised in Southern Illinois (and grew up going to Cards games at Busch Stadium). Where in Southern Illinois did your dad teach? Thanks for your blog and especially for the current study on Chris Wright’s book. I had one brought to me in Thailand this summer and had started it just before you began your study on the blog.

Well, Wrigley Field is a very special place and fans have a great time at that park and the surrounding neighborhood with places like Murphy’s Bleachers and the Cubby Bear to drop into before and/or after the game. I dread the day that Wrigley goes the way of so many of the old ballparks. Eventually, the dollar is going to win out and the Cubs will be playing in a larger (think more tickets sold) ball park somewhere in the suburbs. Do I sound cynical in this regard? I guess I do. In the meantime, let’s enjoy the ambiance of the remaining old parks and hope for an eventual World Series for the long-beleagured Cubbies. : )

Bill…Well, I said I’m not a baseball fan. I was actually rather charmed by the Cubs

Tim
My father taught in Dahlgren one time but these students were from Roodhouse, a village between Springfield and Quincy.

Jennifer (5),
Honest response. I think many of us are “charmed” by the Cubs.
I am also in agreement w/ Nancy (4). Get as much as you can out of Wrigley while you can. The wrecking ball is not far off. My estimate…it’s gone in or before 2016.

I love the Cubs. I love the confines of Wrigley Field. I hate trying to get there so I’m all in favor of building a new stadium out in the burbs with easy expressway and mass transit access. Based on the location of the fans, that would be the northwest or northern suburbs. The team would probably want to be the Cook County Cubs so probably anywhere from Hoffman Estates/South Barrington in an arc to Lincolshire.
Just my thoughts…

The Cubs will stay forever in Wrigleyville at Wrigley Field.

Famous Theological Myths:
1. Jesus was a Republican;
2. Women are inferior to men;
3. The unicorn missed Noah’s ark;
4. The Cubs will stay forever at Wrigley Field.

Mike,
Now that’s a tough one to rebut, except to say this:
Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.
If so, past staying put indicates future staying put.

Scot (#11): that’s true. Or as we say in medicine, the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again expecting different results!
We’ll probably hit Willow Sunday.