Chicagoist: It Won't Be Zellular Field

plumbum82

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:16:09 -0600

@spook: What is your drink? And preferred neighborhood so I can come to your turf and kick your incomprehensible ass? I kid because I love, though. Everyone showed up merely based on a rumor that you might be there. That's saying something...

Pinko

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:16:10 -0600

Ya see now, Spook? If only you had showed up at Sheffield's last night, Chicagoist could have put a face to your diatribes (and you could have witnessed Spav1's "great" breast-eses too)... How far are you willing to go down the rabbit hole?

Spook

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:28:30 -0600

I'm still at work! Somebody bring me a DRANK, bitches!

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:09:01 -0600

@pinko Come on man. Only I can use "allegedly" and only referring to Drew Peterson. And they are great.

Pinko

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:07:12 -0600

Sooo... Did anyone take any pics of these allegedly fantastic boobs?

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:00:47 -0600

I'm also terrible at Boggle, Sorry, Jenga, and Checkers.

Prescott Carlson

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:07 -0600

You throw down a Trouble challenge and I'm all over it.

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:03:35 -0600

Eh. I came away impressed. And to douse all rumors, there were no hook-ups. I just like boobs. A lot. I'm too old, too bald, and entirely too self-medicated to deal with an ex-sorority girl fresh out of college. Besides, I somehow doubt Spav1 can fulfill my C-Section scar fetish. That said, it was nice to put a face to some people. It's weird, you just can't be mean anymore to someone you met in real life. Maybe we should've had a Chutes and Ladders night to make it more accessible and thus, more people would want to meet face to face and raise the level of discourse here. On second thought, fuck Chutes and Ladders.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:47:53 -0600

I was wearing a T-SHIRT for christ's sake. They have looked better.

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:29:17 -0600

What? They're fantastic.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:18:36 -0600

@Plum Thanks about the boobs.

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:51:41 -0600

@Pinko: Read all about it in my post under "Extra, Extra" last night. Long story short... I crushed all.

Pinko

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:01:30 -0600

Details! Details! Who showed up? Who won Trivial Pursuit? And most importantly, any Chicagoist hook-ups?

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:50:15 -0600

@ Matty: I'm kidding. RELAX. And besides, we just name dropped spook the most.

formula27

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:48 -0600

Who the F reads Mariotti or the times? It's just a longer and more costly Red Eye. Name it Summers Eve park at Wrigley field.

matty

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:16 -0600

Who could I have called? I don't know any of you people. Good grief.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:16:06 -0600

@Plum: I know, right. We are famous.

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:12:35 -0600

@ Matty: Look, I know it gets real crazy this time a year down at the ol' Handjob factory, but you COULD have called. @Spav: I can't wait to read that article New City did on us. Jesus.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:08:58 -0600

@matty: That is what Spook said. Liars.

matty

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:52:02 -0600

Jesus fucking christ. I got tied up at work. RELAX

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:48:23 -0600

@Benjy: Also, I believe that it was "spookhatespuppies" that voted for "Old Style Park". Plus, I heard he's a handsome devil, to boot.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:59 -0600

@petey: You are totally on point. Which Ridley Scott is producing. For Fuck's sake, someone get ahold of Sam Zell's agent. @Plum: Maybe CHICAGOIST should do a feature on how they have sold out to corporate advertising which we can't comment on. FASCIST

Prescott Carlson

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:50 -0600

I hereby declare a personal boycott of purchasing any of Sam Zell's corporate real estate holdings.

Spook

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:41:58 -0600

I like how Prescott Carlson's concerns just get ignored! What about his Bushes? He pays his taxes on time!

peteypants

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:33:58 -0600

sam zell would play a great rich uncle pennybags in monopoly: the movie.

plumbum82

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:17:44 -0600

@Spav: I know. Bill Cunningham laces into Obama as a "Hack, Daley style Chicago Politician", which if I'm not mistaken has something to do with Chicago, and we get double the Wrigley news and a new Google chat feature. @Matty: What Spav said.

A2

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:15:28 -0600

Yeah unless the city is getting a cut of the action beyond the regular taxes, etc., I don't think it should be subsidized. I don't really know much about it, though.

cer

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:14:16 -0600

Funny how when it was named "Wrigley" nobody cared when the Cubs sold out then. Wait, none of us were around for that :) It has always been a corporate name so who cares what it will be next. If you are a true baseball fan does it matter if you are going to Wrigley Field or Bubbalicious Field?

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:00:25 -0600

Or we could just enjoy the kooky old man and his insane rantings...

matilda

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:00:00 -0600

A2: You would certainly want someone to double-check this, I would think. Not to draw out the point. I think the best avenue here is not to boycott the Trib--this city desperately needs multiple sources of journalism--but to work against any state or city subsidies for Wrigley Field. That place is a cash cow, and while I do not mind a bit of symbolic help, I have a hard time understanding why we need to help rich people make more money.

A2

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:47:32 -0600

Actually that kind of "expose" would only require a Wikipedia or Forbes search. Anyway most of his money is in real estate holdings (or was until he sold it). You could boycott Trib-affiliated holdings, though.

matilda

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:43:01 -0600

Kfunk: Great idea for deeper reporting. Are you willing to pay a fee to read this site's content so that the site can pay for professional, experienced reporters who can actually investigate public-affairs issues? Such an expose would require hours of digging through various papers and databases, at the least. Why can't you tackle this as a concerned citizen?

Kfunk

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:35:53 -0600

F*CK SAM ZELL 1) Trying to sell Wrigley and the Cubs separately 2) Screwing the Trib staff with his crappy stock deal 3) Breathlessly threatening Cubs fans with various forms of blasphemy. Hey Chicagoist: How about an expose on all the things Sam Zell has an interest in so we can go about properly boycotting them until he stops threatening us. If Cubs fans have one thing it is purchasing power- and no I will not become a Sox fan or boycott Cubs games so lets get creative here.

Joe Blow

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:32 -0600

If the new name changes completely, you'll all be calling it by that name within 10 years. I've never heard anyone talk about heading down to Comiskey for years. Or Sox Park. Or whatever. It's kind of like when you whine about there being "ads" in the park -- so what? It's always been a commercial enterprise..

A2

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:27:48 -0600

Man Mariotti let him have it yesterday.

Prescott Carlson

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:26:26 -0600

It will always be Drunk-Assholes-That-Pee-On-My-Bushes-Ville to me.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:20:57 -0600

Also, matty, you are a dick for not coming to Trivial Pursuit.

matty

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:14:29 -0600

I find it interesting that the Tribune has no stories about this. Also Wrigley Corp should just buy the naming rights again.

djpaul

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:08:01 -0600

If I'm not mistaken, the neighborhood is called Lake View.

kookybites

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:06:07 -0600

Who cares? Fans should care about the team competing to win the world series, not the name of the ballpark. And what is up with the Sun Times rallying on the idiots who are causing an uproar about this? The front page, back page, and far too much in between talked about how Cubs fans need to stand against Zell. Stop it. Please.

vit

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:56:12 -0600

Loser Field anyone?

matilda

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:55:55 -0600

"As for whether the state buys Wrigley, I don't really care, as long it makes money for the state in the long run." Are you willing to pay taxes for this? Or, are you willing to have taxes diverted, for perhaps a generation, from other needs--perhaps schools, perhaps public safety, perhaps road improvements--to fund improvements? As well, if you are, why shouldn't the team's owner--you know, the free-market capitalists with millions in their bank accounts--not pay for this? I think those are some of the questions you must consider.

Perspective

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:52:42 -0600

Let's start a move to begin referring to the Tribune by another name.

Pinko

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:51:05 -0600

G-R-E-E-D Giving capitalism a bad name since the end of feudalism!

mss2400

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:39:56 -0600

Maybe they can call it "Macy's Field" and Chicagoist can organize a boycott? In any event, I think that the old Tribune Company ownership had a certain understanding that that you can't mess to much with Wrigley Field, or you risk damaging its appeal. When everyone was excited last year about the Cubs being sold, I was worried. I'm still wary that Zell and any future ownership of the Cubs will establish all sorts of bad changes for the fans and the neighborhood, and still won't deliver a championship. As for whether the state buys Wrigley, I don't really care, as long it makes money for the state in the long run.

matilda

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:23:51 -0600

I find it amusing that you seem focused on the naming rights. Who cares? The far more important issue, the one that could cost us all indirectly through the tax system, is Zell's desire to have the state more or less take over the park, and/or have tax revenues diverted for park improvements, all so rich people can get richer. Free market my ass.

Spav1

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:21:04 -0600

Hey, I have an idea. Let's talk about the exact same thing EVERY day and expect the commentors to come up with new and fresh snark. Jesus. Why don't next time you just post a picture of Zell from Flickr with a cute caption and see how many comments THAT solicits. BOOOOO-RRINNNNG