03-18-2010, 12:12 PM
<!--quoteo(post=83202:date=Mar 18 2010, 10:59 AM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Mar 18 2010, 10:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Yeah, this traditionalist nonsense gets old after a while. The only tradition that Wrigley is notorious for is losing. I'm not saying that I hate the place, I don't, but I wouldn't be upset if the Rickettses blew it up and rebuilt a replica with modern creature comforts and technology. Would anyone really miss anything about the old structure as long as the ivy, scoreboard and marquee still stood there?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thats what I have bee saying for years now.
Tear down everything from foulpole to foul pole. Leave the bleachers, ivy wall and scorebard as they are. Bleachers were jsut completely redone a few years ago and are still nice.
Take the sign marquee down and rebuild the rest. Make a larger, nicer stadium. Everyone wins that way. The "traditionalists" keep the Ivy, Scoreboard and Marquee. Everyone gets a nicer stadium.
If they ever do get a jumbotron (no idea where to put it yet) but if it replaces the scoreboard (maybe it gets sent to the HOF.... if thats allowed withthe landmarked status) Use it for replays, advertising between innings and whatever else gives you your jollies. But, since technology is so advanced, they can find a way to have the screen have an image of the old manual scoard board. They can even make it so authentic that the animation of the scoreboard actually looks like someone is changing the numbers by hand.
Just a thought
Thats what I have bee saying for years now.
Tear down everything from foulpole to foul pole. Leave the bleachers, ivy wall and scorebard as they are. Bleachers were jsut completely redone a few years ago and are still nice.
Take the sign marquee down and rebuild the rest. Make a larger, nicer stadium. Everyone wins that way. The "traditionalists" keep the Ivy, Scoreboard and Marquee. Everyone gets a nicer stadium.
If they ever do get a jumbotron (no idea where to put it yet) but if it replaces the scoreboard (maybe it gets sent to the HOF.... if thats allowed withthe landmarked status) Use it for replays, advertising between innings and whatever else gives you your jollies. But, since technology is so advanced, they can find a way to have the screen have an image of the old manual scoard board. They can even make it so authentic that the animation of the scoreboard actually looks like someone is changing the numbers by hand.
Just a thought