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I find your argument, which I have dubbed the “O’Hare Field Argument” (you knew it was there when you moved in) misguided. While it is correct I was aware of the ballpark’s presence when I moved to my current address, the Wrigley family still owned the team and there was no talk of night baseball. Myself and my neighbors accepted the existence of the park, knowing that except on a few occasions, the game would be over and most all the fans would be gone by the time we came home from work. This system has worked quite well for many decades. The Tribune subsequently purchases the team and all of a sudden there is a necessity for night games, while instituting 3:05 games, a point the neighborhood never really fought. The follow-up to your argument is that the neighborhood grew up around the ballpark. This is incorrect as most all the buildings surrounding the park were built prior to the park. Consequently, Weeghman Park, now Wrigley Field, is the “new” kid on the block and the Tribune should have known there was a neighborhood there when they bought the team.
Let us examine these pressing reasons:
I could go on and on about other arguments I have heard favoring lights, but it essentially boils down to the Cubs want to ruin my life and the neighborhood for the 1990 All-Star Game. I presume that the Cubs will recoup the estimated $5 million investment with this one game.
