Chicagoist: It's All A Game ... The Price Of Fame

urajoke

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:28:24 -0600

It's hilarious how you guys rip on the S-T and the Trib when if they didn't exist you guys would have NO site. Almost all of your information comes from their Web sites. Nice rip-off journalism.

Mr. Smith

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:35:36 -0600

Mike has it right. They forfeited the option of playing a night game, not forfeiting the game itself. The Police are taking the place (maybe) of DMB. And man, that's reason enough for me to shell out lots of money to see them. Which I will.

Mike

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:56:32 -0600

The Cubs are on the road from starting July 2nd, then there's the All-Star Break. They don't have a home game again until July 13th...the purposely schedule whatever concert during a road trip and probably before the all-star break so there was plenty of time to repair any field damage. They're not holding a concert the night after a day game. the cubs prefer night game, the neighborhood doesn't. the neighborhood also doesn't like concerts so in exchange for allowing the concerts the Cubs agree to play 29 night games instead of 30.

Julene

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:06:04 -0600

It says right in the ST article that the Cubs would forfeit the game. That being said there are night games on both nights with Washington and Pittsburgh. I assume they could probably be rescheduled for earlier in the day.

Mike

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:43:42 -0600

Ears...I don't know if I'm misreading what you said, but there's no way the Police would play Wrigley during a Cubs homestand. The DMB show was scheduled for a time when the Cubs were on the road. Plus, the Cubs only have night games on the weekdays, why would there be weekday concerts at wrigley unless it was a holiday?

vise77

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:20:37 -0600

James: Great point. In fact, I stopped buying the Sunday Trib after I realized at least half the front page was a rip off of something the NYT did a week or two before. The other half usually was feature crap--the Trib trying to do narrative writing, for instance, but doing it in that usual clumsly Trib way. Remember when Chicago was once a decent town for journalism?

Shoeshine Boy

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:15:58 -0600

If that is the case, the sky is the limit on what I would pay to see a show and rent a bar for the post celebration. O My Jim.

Ears in Many Places

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:14:51 -0600

Make that two "two-day stand." I've heard from a reliable source that the potential dates take place on days when the Cubs have evening games, meaning it will be cool to see The Police, but that it will suck to see them in the daytime.

tankboy

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:00:29 -0600

That 1995 show WAS unbelievable, and I was lucky enough to catch the two Milwaukee shows that summer too. My point is that was twelve years ago, and my legs, and joints, and wbbly knees are twelve years older now!

Annie

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:59:38 -0600

As long as Sting isn't playing the lute.

marty

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:48:02 -0600

The 07/11/1995 PJ concert was LEGENDARY. i would've felt blessed to be in the GA for that show.

Kev

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:38:08 -0600

If this turns out to be false, the Police MUST play Lolla this summer. Especially if they headline Bonnaroo, which is the other major rumor out there...

james

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:37:59 -0600

tankboy wrote: "we’ll be unraveling the mystery of why the S-T announced these talks instead of The Chicago Tribune, whose parent company, um, owns Wrigley. Maybe that’s why no one wants to buy The Trib, huh?" Wait a couple weeks - once the story runs in the new york times, then maybe the trib will pick it up, put eight reporters on it and turn it into a 2,000 word front page piece. i exaggerate, but not completely.