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Nice Wrigley Field Article

cubsscoop — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:11:08 -0000

Nice Wrigley Field Article

Nice article on Wrigley Field, and good quotes from our friend Al.

New restaurant & update from Crane Kenney

cubsscoop — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:52:22 -0000

Sounds like Crane gave a long interview with the media today about the baseball and business sides of the franchise. Dave van Dyck covers it.

I found this the most interesting:

A new restaurant, run by Harry Caray's restaurant, will be ready for the start of the season. The indoor-outdoor "sports bar" facility will envelope the entire triangle at Sheffield and Addison and surround the statue of the late broadcaster. It will be open year round and will seat 491, replacing the Friendly Confines restaurant in the right field corner.

Read the rest here:

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2009/03/cubsd-add-restaurant-may-move-from-mesa.html

This is the theme song for the month: "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day

cubsscoop — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:12:33 -0000

This is the theme song for the month: "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day

Wrigley sale to state officially dead

cubsscoop — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:50:38 -0000

This was a terrible idea from the beginning, and now thankfully it looks to be officially dead. Hopefully with the book going out this week, they can finally move the sale forward. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-080609wrigley-isfa,0,2452470.story

The state's efforts to purchase Wrigley Field slammed into an ivy-covered wall Monday as talks with owner Tribune Co. reached an impasse, according to former Gov. James Thompson, who has been leading the charge.

The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority was attempting to pull off the deal without any use of taxes, and Tribune said no way, according to Thompson, chairman of ISFA, which owns and operates U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.

Tribune Co., which also owns the Chicago Tribune, believes the acquisition "requires either the transfer of future sales and amusement tax revenue from transactions at Wrigley Field for the next 30 years, or the imposition of new taxes, or the transfer of existing ISFA funds now pledged to projects at U.S. Cellular.

"ISFA cannot agree to this," Thompson said in a prepared statement late Monday afternoon. "In our judgment, there are no votes in the City Council or in the Illinois General Assembly for transferred or new taxes for Wrigley Field. And we cannot break the promises we have previously made to the White Sox under our lease terms."

Chicago Cubs Chairman Crane Kenney agreed that the two parties were at an impasse.

"We appreciate Gov. Thompson's interest and involvement," he said, adding he did not expect a resumption of talks.

Peoria Chiefs @ Wrigley Field

cubsscoop — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:59:18 -0000

This is going to be announced later today, but according to my sources the Peoria Chiefs, the Cubs "A" affiliate will play a game against the Kane County Cougars on July 29th at Wrigley Field.

It will be cool to see Ryno in the dugout again.

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Cubs to play in final HOF Game

cubsscoop — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:44:46 -0000

Cubs will play the Padres on June 16th in Cooperstown in what will be the final Hall of Fame Game. The Cubs played in the first one ever in 1940.

Full article:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-080129-chicago-cubs-hall-of-fame-game,0,4718824.story

Jay Blunk leaves Cubs

cubsscoop — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:25:35 -0000

Seems like McDonough is taking one of his employees with him to the Blackhawks. Check out the story here:

http://blackhawks.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=348618

I wonder where this will leave the Cubs marketing.

Full story below.

The Chicago Blackhawks today announced that Jay Blunk, a 22-year sports marketing veteran, will join the team to direct the team's business operations. Mr. Blunk will be the team's senior vice president of business operations, a newly created position.

UPDATE [2008-1-3 13:37:18 by Al]: I deleted the rest of this because it's BCB policy to not allow the copying/pasting of entire articles from other sites -- that's a copyright violation. Click on the link above to read the full story.