Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxb!mcal From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Response to David Rubin Message-ID: <1078@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 12:42:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1078 Posted: Thu Jun 27 12:42:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:14:45 EDT References: <309@ltuxa.UUCP>, <683@fisher.UUCP> <732@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 > I feel that day baseball is the real thing. I am also convinced however, > that the Tribune will move the Cubs if they don't get lights. Possibly into > a domed stadium that the city has been wanting for a while now. > I would rather sacrifice the day games to keep the Cubs in Wrigley Field. > Dallas Green has said that the Cubs will not accept a temporary light > solution. The team would not be used to the lights in Wrigley. It seems > clear however that the Tribune is using this as leverage to go all or nothing. > The Tribune is proposing permanent lights and a limited number of night games, > roughly corresponding to the 3:05 starts (about 20 a season). The state > legislature is beginning to waffle, although the mayor has vowed not to change > the city ordinance. > James Cooper > ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!wjnz Mayor Washington and the state legislature and the citizens of Wrigleyville will relent and allow night games at Wrigley Field when they realize that the Cub organization is serious about moving the team to the suburbs and into a new stadium. Now that the Tribune Company owns the team, there is more than enough money available, as well as the resolve to move the team if C.U.B.S. (Citizens United for Baseball in Sunshine) continues to resist permanent lights at "the friendly confines". Mike Clifford