Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Response to David Rubin Message-ID: <697@fisher.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 08:25:06 EDT Article-I.D.: fisher.697 Posted: Sun Jul 7 08:25:06 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 01:12:50 EDT References: <309@ltuxa.UUCP> <683@fisher.UUCP> <289@vaxwaller.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University Department of Statistics Lines: 31 > The feeling that the Cubs should be allowed day games for any > post-season play, and that those games should be played at Wrigley, isn't > confined to the people in the immediate area. This is generally a city-wide > attitude. To state that the people around Wrigley have enough clout to get > city hall to pass anti-night baseball legislation is to be a bit ignorant > of the politics involved with the city............. > > Chip Kozy Perhaps this should be moved to net.politics... :-) In any case, I beg to differ. Regardless of how other Chicagoans feel, they do not feel as strongly as the neighborhood residents. In actual fact, city ordinances and state laws were a DIRECT result of political action by the residents of the Wrigley area. It is my informed opinion (I was attending the U. of C. during the period these laws were passed) that politicians representing other consituents went along with the legislation because no direct harm was evident; politicians, and especially Cook County politicians, do not overly concern themselves with much that is not immediate. It was a desire not to alienate those colleagues who had a real political stake in the issue that allowed the statutes to sail through. Had the dangers of such legislation been apparent at the time, there would likely have been a debate. Before the Tribune Co. took over the Cubs, voting for day baseball was as controversial, and as likely to bring harm, as voting for apple pie. But when there are more customers for cherry pie than for apple, the unzealous start to see things is a somewhat different light (pun intentional). David Rubin {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david