Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!twitch!hocad!houxm!vax135!cornell!rossiter From: rossiter@cornell.UUCP (David Rossiter) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Lights at Wrigley Field Message-ID: <1330@cornell.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 13:20:13 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.1330 Posted: Fri Oct 5 13:20:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 02:33:11 EDT References: <204@mhuxh.UUCP> Reply-To: rossiter@gvax.UUCP (David Rossiter) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 22 Sad to say, baseball is first and foremost a MONOPOLY business. The owners have agreed that the Commissioner can do ANYTHING in the best interests of baseball AS A WHOLE, including voiding trades (remember Vida Blue and the Yankees?), dictating compensation terms, etc. Therefore he was well within his mandate to try to make the most $$$ for the sport as a whole, by making the change in schedule. A Cubs season ticket holder sued Organized Baseball with the argument that he was being deprived of property (namely, the fourth home date); the federal judge threw the case out immediately, on the (valid) basis that the Commissioner could do anything to the fan, e.g. move all Cubs games to Comiskey (!!) if he had so desired. It's a fine line -- the health of the sport as a whole, the pleasure of many millions (like myself) who can watch at night but not in the day, versus the tradition of Wrigley. Let's at least be thankful it's on grass. Consider future series: Montreal vs. Toronto in 1996 -- when a premature blizzard settles over Ontario and Quebec on October 10, and they decide to relocate the series to the New Orleans Superdome... then we're getting too commercial for my taste!