Not the Cubs!!!
No, no....Not the Cubs!!!
Years ago, the Cubs were owned by Wrigley Gum which was owned by P.K. Wrigley. "PK" used the Cubs as a business...Like a farm to grow players and then sell them to other teams for a profit...Like Bruce Sutter. Bruce was about the last of the big cash deals before the Tribune (which by the way is directly across Michigan Avenue from the Wrigley Building) bought the Cubs. The trib owns WGN radio and TV, and that has been the broadcast link for the Cubs forever. A very tidy and controllable package!! The Tribune Company (http://www.tribune.com) is VERY LARGE...And it is publicly for sale! Take a peak at what they own...It is amazing!! That doesn't matter as long as the sign at Wrigley and the team that plays there doesn't change!!!
posted by Tom | 10:10 PM
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It's going to become something stupid like Michelob Field. Just you watch and see. It's a sad day in Mudville, a sad day indeed.
You could smell it coming when they put up the lights. Little Dicky and Mikey Daley ain't nothing like their old man. When Richard J. Daley was alive....well, things were just different!!
Wrigley gum...Wrigley field. I never connected the two. Ya took me to school yet again!
There was once a Wrigley Field in LA - home of the Angels. Long long long ago.
Today Wrigley Field, tomorrow Yankee Stadium. Mark my words, someday the stadium that Ruth Built will become the stadium Centex built.
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