Ricketts Family Annoyance Thread

[Tony]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

[Armchair_QB]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

Which is the opposite direction from the way the field is running next week.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

Which is the opposite direction from the way the field is running next week.

[shakes fist in direction of Ricketts family]

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

Both endlines at the back of each endzone look a little ummm, sketchy, let alone Arena football-like in the walls' proximities.

Still better than Chicago Stadium 1932, which was even less regulation.

[Oleg]

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

I'm surprised they were able to fit the field at all. Didn't the football field go right up to the wall before they added the new seats?

That's awesome.  I can barely make out BC.

[Waco Kid]

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/11/snug-spots-unavoidable.html

A spot near the southwest corner of the field is about 6 feet from a padded brick wall.

Cubs president Crane Kenney called that a "pinch point" and said the team could not bulldoze it down to create more space.

"The brick wall is a landmarked feature," he said, "so that's not coming down."

[Eli]

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/11/snug-spots-unavoidable.html

A spot near the southwest corner of the field is about 6 feet from a padded brick wall.

Cubs president Crane Kenney called that a "pinch point" and said the team could not bulldoze it down to create more space.

"The brick wall is a landmarked feature," he said, "so that's not coming down."

A pox on all the Rickettses houses!

[Kermit IV]

You guys talking about moving the Cubs to the suburbs should be shot in the face with a ball of your own shit. Even if you're joking, I don't care.

I actually wouldn't give two shits if they tore down Wrigley. It's not like there's a history of winning baseball there or something.

I mean, they tore down Yankee Stadium, for fucks sake.

I think they should tear it down and rebuild it, leaving only the scoreboard intact. But moving it out of town is not an option. People will not travel from around the midwest or the nation at large to visit Glen or whatever the fuck. They might do it once, say, "Meh." and never ever come back. Which might not bother the white people in the northern suburbs but th team will miss that revenue and the entire brand will be shot. The Cubs would become the Brewers. I'd probably become a Sox fan.

It's win-win!

[Internet Apex]

My God these people are so fucking stupid it's starting to hurt.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/joe-ricketts-wrigley-field-taxpayers-against-earmarks-tom-20101115

Last week, Tom Ricketts and Co., new owners of the Cubs, went public with a request that Illinois taxpayers take one -- or really, take $300 million -- for the team.

But the message is undermined by a YouTube video from Joe Ricketts, who founded "Taxpayers Against Earmarks," a group that is urging lawmakers to control government spending.

"I think its a crime for our elected officials to borrow money today, to spend money today and push the repayment of that load out into the future, onto people who aren't even born yet," Joe Ricketts says in the video.

Oof.

[Gilgamesh]

My God these people are so fucking stupid it's starting to hurt.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/joe-ricketts-wrigley-field-taxpayers-against-earmarks-tom-20101115

Last week, Tom Ricketts and Co., new owners of the Cubs, went public with a request that Illinois taxpayers take one -- or really, take $300 million -- for the team.

But the message is undermined by a YouTube video from Joe Ricketts, who founded "Taxpayers Against Earmarks," a group that is urging lawmakers to control government spending.

"I think its a crime for our elected officials to borrow money today, to spend money today and push the repayment of that load out into the future, onto people who aren't even born yet," Joe Ricketts says in the video.

Oof.

DRLP.

[Internet Apex]

My God these people are so fucking stupid it's starting to hurt.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/joe-ricketts-wrigley-field-taxpayers-against-earmarks-tom-20101115

Last week, Tom Ricketts and Co., new owners of the Cubs, went public with a request that Illinois taxpayers take one -- or really, take $300 million -- for the team.

But the message is undermined by a YouTube video from Joe Ricketts, who founded "Taxpayers Against Earmarks," a group that is urging lawmakers to control government spending.

"I think its a crime for our elected officials to borrow money today, to spend money today and push the repayment of that load out into the future, onto people who aren't even born yet," Joe Ricketts says in the video.

Oof.

DRLP.

Fuck.

[Brownie]

What the hell's going on out there?

House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, told reporters in Springfield Tuesday afternoon that the team's owners, the Ricketts family, withdrew its proposal to finance a $200 million stadium renovation with a state bond sale that would be repaid with the anticipated growth in the 12 percent amusement tax levied on tickets sold at Wrigley Field.

A spokesman for the Ricketts family denied that the family had scrapped its amusement-tax plan.

I haven't seen such bad management of this team since someone told Scott Boras "You tell your client to suck it because we signed Randy Myers, Candy Maldonado and Jose Guzman today!"

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

What the hell's going on out there?

House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, told reporters in Springfield Tuesday afternoon that the team's owners, the Ricketts family, withdrew its proposal to finance a $200 million stadium renovation with a state bond sale that would be repaid with the anticipated growth in the 12 percent amusement tax levied on tickets sold at Wrigley Field.

A spokesman for the Ricketts family denied that the family had scrapped its amusement-tax plan.

I haven't seen such bad management of this team since someone told Scott Boras "You tell your client to suck it because we signed Randy Myers, Candy Maldonado and Jose Guzman today!"

Don't forget Dan Plesac!

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

DPD.

They had a shot of the field at Wrigley and the goal posts at the right field end of the field are mounted on the right field wall. The back line of the end zone is right up against the wall.

No deep posts at that end of the field next week.

In case anyone's yet to see a visual of this:


Where's your Bronco Nagurski now?!?!