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Leave it to the city to throw a huge bucket of cold water on the Cubs first back-to-back division titles ever. They're asking bars and restaurants around Wrigley Field to observe a voluntary cutoff of alcohol sales after the seventh-inning stretch to keep post-playoff game celebrations from turning into... well, the 81 regular season post-game celebrations that preceded them.
The boundaries for the cutoff zone are Sheffield between Irving and Newport, Clark between Irving and Newport, and Addison from Wilton to Racine. Natch, the bars ain't having it. Both John Barleycorn and Murphy's Bleachers cited the obvious loss of revenue if they decided to observe the moratorium (not to mention the tax revenue the city would lose from the ban). The city counters by saying that cutting off alcohol sales for even one hour will help reduce alcohol-related incidents.
Office of Emergency Management and Communications Executive Director Ray Orozco said that they'll ask bar owners around Sox Park to honor a similar moratorium, should the Good Guys make the playoffs. But that'll affect... what? Jimbo's and First Base? (Sun-Times)
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This is anti-capitalist. If you don't "voluntarily honor" this the city will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
I swear we live in a bolshevik totalitarian dictatorship right in the heart of America.
The whole North Side is going to be up for grabs if/when the Cubs win. Asking a few bars to stop serving alcohol for an hour won't accomplish anything.
This is a stupid plan. First, there will be the added incentive to bingeing, knowing that you better stock up in the top of the seventh because you won't be able to get a beer for a while.
Then, there's the other obvious problem- at the end of the game, what incentive is there to stay inside a bar that isn't serving? Ergo, EVERYBODY ENDS UP IN THE STREET.
Great idea.
Dear city: Please leave me the fuck alone for once. Maybe your next 'one city, one book' campaign choice will be penned by George Orwell.
I abhor the super-drunk atmosphere around Wrigley (Can they shoehorn any MORE bars on Clark Street between Roscoe and Addison), but this is a stupid plan. I'd rather have a sloppy drunk guy that one who's just winding up and gets cut off. Let them drink until they can't walk then just push them to the side and resume traffic.
Oh, and it will keep them from coming further north to the bars in Andersonville and screwing up MY evening so, yeah, let them stay there.
Two important points from the article were left out of the info above.
1) It's not EVERY post-season game, just "clinch" games.
and (to address Chris F's concern)
2) Alcohol service would resume once the game ends.
I swear we live in a bolshevik totalitarian dictatorship right in the heart of America.
Yes, the right to get over-served and piss-blind drunk is the one our grandfather's fought and died for at Iwo Jima.
I agree with stealth, keep the monkeys in their wrigleyville cage and out of the human areas.
Well I'm glad mommy and daddy city council are letting me know what I can and can't do. So great, I just order 3 pitchers of beer in the 6th and then catch back up at the end of the game.
If they don't want overly drunken fans in the street, enforce the laws you have now for public drunkenness and bars over serving. Seriously? Todd Stroger can't balance the city's budget and we are worried about this? As far as I can see we need every tax dollar we can get even its only 2 innings of Wrigleyville liquor tax.
Or we can just say screw it and invade Boystown for 2 innings.
and thats what grinds my gears
Will there be a voluntary total ban on alcohol sales during Daley's Olympics? Who wants a bunch of drunk foreigners prowling the streets?
this is so fking bizarre. who came up with this? obviously no one who's ever had a few. how does it help when you resume alcohol sales? and what determines a 'clinch' game? will that spill over into the regular season, then?
when i first moved to the city, i moved to wrigleyville. grace and kenmore, to be exact. i didn't really know any better, but i enjoyed the atmosphere fine. i'll say this -- since the homerun race, things changed there. i don't know how an area like that could get *more* gentrified, but it did. (RIP, wrigleyville tap.) and with it came a vibe that gets scary sometimes.
i still love to get off the addison stop sometimes when there's a game and soak up that energy, but all in all, i don't see how this helps anything, when that area is a free-for-all on *any* given weekend, much less during cubs season.
How about the bars stop serving if people can smoke for an hour?
Now that is just about the damn silliest thing I ever did hear.
This is an idiotic idea. They should let the bar owners be responsible for their patrons (Dram Shop Laws, anyone?) and just beef up security.
They should also ask the bar owners to be responsible for the area immediately outside of their establishment, to help the CPD in crowd management.
Together, we can all have a good time and celebrate, but the 'cutoff' idea is just silly. It only encourages pre-bingeing.
and what determines a 'clinch' game? will that spill over into the regular season, then?
Who said Cubs fans don't know anything about baseball?
Lord knows I didn't.
Has this nonsense been attempted in other cities? Boston? New York? St. Louis?
Sorry, but if the City doesn't want riots, the City needs to flood the streets with police and restrict traffic in the area after a "clinch" win.
I thought the City mastered the handling of these types of celebration after the Bulls won their third championship.
I just saw Kyle Orton riding a fixed gear bike down State Street, right around the corner of Madison by Sears.
Look, sportos, I want you to enjoy your game. Really. And I want you to enjoy it away from me. You don't like books or quiet or movies with big words and foreign people, cool. I'll keep those.
This plan is make entirely of fail. You cut some drunk asshole off at the 7th inning, he's still going to be an asshole and now he has a cause. He's been wronged and slighted.
Let them drink themselves stupid and then just send in the riot cops, like when they close down bourbon street at the end of Mardi Gras. Sweep out the jock-sniffing suburbanites. Back to the red line and your metra connection. Back to your SUV to sleep outside of it in a pool of your own filth. Happy fun times for all.
Way to stereotype Albanyparkfour.
I like books. I like quiet. I like movies with big words and foreigners.
I also like the Cubs.
I am also from the city.
Your post is as ignorant as the inaccurate Cubs fan you try to paint.
oh, a literalist. my point, dan, is this: really, it's only for playoff games? what if a series with the cards is really key but not an official "clinch"? hell, what about the sox/cubs? hardly clinchy when it's in the middle of the season, but definitely will bring out some real 'characters,' for lack of a better word.
not to mention, what do you do when a game is supposed to be a clinch, and then isn't? then the next night? things like this tend to have a slippery slope, that's all.
No your point is understood - it's just a little absurd.
Here we are where the so called "life long" Cubs fans may stand a chance for winning a world series during this century and all they can think about is "ZOMG WE WANTZ SUM BOOZE LETS GET DRUNK".
It's just a sweet little irony that you can't define what a clincher is.
@matty:
This whole country is anti-capitalist now. With the recent federal bailout of the financial industry, I would say this regulation on a micro-scale in Wrigleyville is the least of my worries.
But really, I will drink when I want. This is stupid.
Way to stereotype Albanyparkfour.
I like books. I like quiet. I like movies with big words and foreigners.
I also like the Cubs.
I am also from the city.
I am humorless and incapable of taking a joke.
Please. Calm down sweetie. Hypertension kills.
And hearing sportards crying about stereotyping is just comedy gold. Your affection for a group of over-paid and pampered man-children is now grounds for being discriminated against? Criticized even?
The drunken, stumbling shambling white hordes that come pouring out of wrigley after each game are aren't a stereotype, they're a sociological phenomenon. The only way they can enjoy the sporting accomplishments of others is to act as boorish as possible.
Sox park? That's on the south side, close to the highway for the suburbanites to scurry home. Good on them. I like my sport parks in in the middle of wastelands.
Wrigleyville is a stretch of loud, obnoxious bars populated by the very worst breed of human on a nightly basis, triple that when the Cubs are playing.
Defend it all you want, it's a stretch of fake tans, pasty white people and drunks. Hardly a cultural bastion worth protecting or holding nostalgia for.
Albanyparkour might be the only person who makes Cubs fans seem sufferable.
So now you are calling me a sportstard (real PC of you) and you have never even met me. You are the joke who needs to calm down.
So now you are calling me a sportstard (real PC of you) and you have never even met me. You are the joke who needs to calm down.
Are you a child? Are you this insulted by everything? "Oh no, someone things sports are dumb, I am offended."
Your position is untenable. And more than a little sad.
Political Correctness? Where's my crystal pepsi? I want to watch Seinfeld! Welcome to 1996.
Albanyparkour might be the only person who makes Cubs fans seem sufferable.
You love me oodles and oodles.
Pop quiz -- when are hardcore fans going to drink/order drinks more:
a) when an important game is going on requiring their attention
b) when they are celebrating an important victory and haven't been allowed to drink for the last two innings
c) when they are drowning their sorrows following an important loss and haven't been allowed to drink for the last two innings
d) either b or c.
If you answered (d), you're far smarter than the city of Chicago. But you knew that already.
oh, albanyparkour. i dig your comments a lot. but every now and again ... WTF?
what i forgot to put in my first comment was that although i've moved from wrigleyville and really don't care for the scene there most of the time, i absolutely cannot STAND when people just use the shitcan behavior of that certain % of the attendees of cub games to extrapolate that out to
1. all cubs fans
2. all sports fans
3. anything having to do with wrigley
fact of the matter is, it's an amazing place to watch baseball. there's lots of assholes there, sure. but there's a lot of creeps down on rush/division on any given night, too. i don't hear anyone telling those places to cut-off alcohol or tone it down or re-evaluate their behavior.
and this idea that you have to be a complete alcoholic dolt (= cubs fan) or an intellectual culturalist (=?) is ridiculous. it's this kind of black and white thinking that's gotten this country into most of the trouble we're in.
Calling people a tard is wrong no matter what you seem to think.
I don't care that you don't like sports, nor does it offend me. I care that you seem to think you know everything about people you don't know. But I guess you're right I shouldn't care that you so openly make yourself look like a moron on here day after day. I don't know you, and am clearly better off not knowing you.
Clearly the only one acting childish here is you.
I think everyone is missing the point.
This is about about mommy and daddy telling adults what they can and can't do. If I am 21 and over and want to have an adult drink, I should be able to. This is a legal product in a licensed and legal establishment. Just because I may be an idiot frat boy in Wrigleyville or a fake intellectual hipster reading to much Vice Magazine, doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to have a beer in Wrigleyville in the middle of a damn baseball game.
Calling people a tard is wrong no matter what you seem to think.
Thank you Lisa Bonet. And now, the Cosby Tolerance Dancers!
I don't care that you don't like sports, nor does it offend me. I care that you seem to think you know everything about people you don't know. But I guess you're right I shouldn't care that you so openly make yourself look like a moron on here day after day. I don't know you, and am clearly better off not knowing you.
And you don't know me. You don't know about the night I had to pull four cubs fans, in full asshole blue, off a female friend who had the audacity to walk by an open bar door and not want her breasts fondled.
You don't know about the tour buses who park up on montrose and divulge these drunk assholes to wander down clark street before the game even starts.
You don't know about the times I've dared to ride my bike near wrigleyville and been called "bike faggot" by some chach and his crew.
You don't know about the cops I know who, day in, day out have to deal with some rich white assholes drunk on their own bullshit and piss beer threaten to "CALL MY DAD! HE'S A LAYYYER!"
You don't know about the "traffic enforcement agents" who screamed at a group of cyclists I was in because we refused to run a red light into cross traffic "You do what I say!"
The vomit I stepped in going to a friends house. The people I know who live nearby and regularly find white guys pissing on their lawns almost a MILE from the stadium. The way the red line smells, like Axe and alcohol. The way they destroy car traffic for blocks. The way they gawk and stare with dull, vapid, tv drained eyes at anyone who isn't just...like...them.
Oh and the billions they suck from the city and state like a tick. That too.
You don't know from shit about me. You don't like me on here? Neato. I'll just agree and conform and get a fitted hat and join the uni-mind.
Clearly the only one acting childish here is you.
I prefer to be seen as a gadfly, but if you're a grown-up I'll take childish for $100 Alex.
@Smussy:
Oh my love, I'm sorry. It's just the cubbie bluebells that raise my dander.
Hearing their paeans to the lofty ones in city hall that "The Beer Must Flow!" Just makes me loquacious and silly.
I know it's not all black and white, but the Blue is rather ugly.
albany: all those things you listed above are real. i've seen all them in one form or another. they're no exaggeration. but as someone else said, it means the cops need to do a better job of enforcing the laws on the books, not creating new ones.
i don't even drink, so this law isn't going to affect me, but there's something ridiculous in thinking cutting off alcohol for a bit is going to do anything to stop the things you mention in your comment. and as much as i'm not a big capitalist flag waver, it does appear that this makes no sense any way i look at it.
i'm a cubs fan through and through, and i still maintain it's possible to love them and wrigley and baseball and get good things out of that experience despite all you mention.
Yeah, Albany, because no one who was ever smart or literary--or wrote those things called books that you are always talking about-ever, ever liked sports.
Or, got drunk and acted like anti-social assholes, with or without sports.
You know, no one like Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Algren--well, you get the point.
Or maybe you don't.
Or maybe you just like the attention. Hell if I know.
In any case, I love books and odd-talking people who require those subtitles in movies, and quiet time to reflect, meditate and hold my bare palm over a candle while I recite modernist poetry from a certain St Louis native who pretended to be a British banker, all the while thinking about how morally superior I am to ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE else. Yet: (notice the bold use of colon, surely a sign of a superior brain not unlike yours) I do love baseball (though not the Cubs, yet another sign of a superior brain, perhaps, though not this year, I guess).
Guess another one of your theories bites the dust.
Your punishment: A Friday night at the Cubbie Bear trying to talk up the clientele on such matters as the bad influence MFA programs have had on writing, or how every young American writer in the 1980s and early 1990s wanted to be Raymond Carver, or how no really smart person EVER loved sports, or simply just extended riffs on your supreme coolness and rock solid powers of judgment. I look forward to the report.
(All in good fun. No disrespect intended for Cub fans--hope you are enjoying it; what a good season overall--or those brilliant, sensitive souls who seek to float above us all, even when their wings show too much gutter dirt.)
This whole country is anti-capitalist now. With the recent federal bailout of the financial industry
Well very capitalist for the average (not-rich) tax payer. Very welfare state for that small number of super rich people at the top who are becoming less and less distinguishable from a monarchy.
And even though I can't think of anything more miserable than an amateur night, drunken Cub fan high on a win, this is still a bad idea. Let them have their fun, hell let them tear Wrigleyville apart, maybe not such a bad thing...
Oh, I am completely serious about a cordon around the area. Keep it contained, and let fly. I wasn't kidding about using Mardi Gras as a model. They run that show like a MACHINE down there. I've been on Bourbon Street, well, above it on a balcony, when the hour tolls. Street sweepers, riot cops and paddy wagons for anyone not on the hoof.
I feel bad for the cops who have to put up with Wrigley duty after hours. It becomes a manpower issue. They're outnumbered by drunks.
And usually, angry drunks whose team just ate it. Perhaps a victory will cheer cubs fans?
You seem to think that these terrible atrocities are exclusive to Cubs fans. Many Cubs fans are idiotic. All are not. And plenty of these crimes you describe are commited by people who care just as little about the Cubs as you do.
Having grown up within walking distance of the park, I am fully aware of the problems the buses, the drunk morons, the traffic etc cause in the neighborhood.
As for the tax dollars, I would venture to say that the neighborhood sales and property taxes contribute more than their fare share to the city and state coffers.
I am by no means trying to justify any of this horrible behavior. Its just not all of us, nor is it just Cubs fans who behave like this. Thats the truth.
My friends have season tickets in the upper deck and I occasionally go with them. A lot of people around them are also season ticket holders and fans. I've never had a bad experience. I sat in the bleachers once and also had a good experience, which was nice because my 10-year-old cousin was with me. That said, I've seen the drunks on the Red Line and I've seen guys trying to uproot a tree, people urinating in yards, a guy outside Goose Island jumping in puddles during a downpour in front of cops. It's like anything else ... there are going to be stupid people who lose control. It has nothing to do with their fan status as far as I'm concerned. In fact, the good-natured rivalry I've seen between St. Louis fans and Cub fans is proof of that.
And you don't know me. You don't know about the night I had to pull four cubs fans...
Someone who likes books and foreign movies having the strength to fight off four men? This is the best joke of the thread.
@Matilda:
The outliers are not the mean. Sorry, that's the size and shape of your whole argument.
@Thunderbelly.
You seem to think that these terrible atrocities are exclusive to Cubs fans.
No, but I live on the north side of the city and hence deal with them. If I was in Rwanda and the Tutsis were getting liberal with the machete's that would be a grave concern as well.
Many Cubs fans are idiotic. All are not.
Many, all, fuzzy math. Let's talk brass tacks. 60% assholes? 70? Anything over 50% and I'm calling for a Stalnist purge.
And plenty of these crimes you describe are commited by people who care just as little about the Cubs as you do.
Forest for the trees. The overwhelming majority of the problem people are there not because they live there, but for the game. Yes, there are criminal rugby fans, criminal lacrosse fanatics and criminal atheist pacificst. We're talking about cubs fans, don't muddy the waters.
Having grown up within walking distance of the park, I am fully aware of the problems the buses, the drunk morons, the traffic etc cause in the neighborhood.
And you're still a "fan"? Glutton for punishment you are.
As for the tax dollars, I would venture to say that the neighborhood sales and property taxes contribute more than their fare share to the city and state coffers.
Really? I'd love to see numbers on that.
I am by no means trying to justify any of this horrible behavior. Its just not all of us, nor is it just Cubs fans who behave like this. Thats the truth.
No, at best it's a claim, and one I can refute anecdotally with great ease. Not all Cubs fans are criminals and louts. Just "many". Or perhaps "most".
Again, outliers do not prove the mean.
Someone who likes books and foreign movies having the strength to fight off four men? This is the best joke of the thread.
Touche. I should point out I don't fight fair.
Or unarmed.
Albany:
You have totally taken over this thread to serve your personal agenda and it has had the effect of also stifling discussion on an interesting topic ans you hurl insults and see which one sticks. Maybe until you can choose words, you should think about limiting your comments.
I think all of the above makes you a troll.
I'm sorry Spav1 could you speak a little louder?
Who is this Spav1?
Awww... Glass houses Spav1. Glass houses.
Ok, I bow, I go.
Look, I love you all. Even Matilda. It's all just bullshit in the stream after all. We all have better things to do, better uses of our time and blood and treasure. It's a great big ol' fun piss-take. I'm just a goof, a silly judas goat for all your beatings.
I love you, even the sports fans.
Especially the sports fans.
Can I just interrupt at this point and say it's refreshing that this didn't disintergrate into a "Whose fans are dumber?" argument between the White Sox and Cubs factions?
Now back to your regularly scheduled e-fight. Go Sox!
@ Albanyparkour
Your ignorance that those pools of vomit, those fake tans, and whatever else exist outside of Wrigley betrays your ignorance.
Your "Oh and the billions they suck from the city and state like a tick" statement only further drives it home.
And your repeated complaint of "white" fans doing all of this makes you truly intolerable.
And you, for all your poetic words and fuzzy math, are an asshole.
I'd sit here and debate facts with you, but i'm going to go enjoy the night. In Wriglyville.
Some 20 comments ago, before the standard Albany self-lovefest (please, somebody with power, send this dude wherever you sent Spavone), somebody mentioned the problem of defining a "clinch game," and somebody else jumped all over them.
I would like to point out that you can't determine whether a game is a clinch game in seventh inning, as the game has yet to be won.
Touche. I should point out I don't fight fair.
Or unarmed.
Why are the toughest people always anonymous people on the Internet?
And when did this blog become a de-facto reality show about a character named AlbanyParkour and his/her various personal experiences? Just wondering--it's not my blog, after all.
In any case, not all Cubs fan are drunken morons; I seriously doubt most are, and a string of anecdotes from someone who lacks sense to stay away from that which he/she hates (that is, Wrigleyville during home games*) does nothing to persuade me otherwise. The Cubs are just smack in the middle of a neighborhood, unlike most sports teams. And leave the cops out of it: There are worst things for them to be doing then handcuffing a few dumb drunks. And, you know, it is their job.
*I hate huge festival crowds, and therefore stay away from Blues Fest and the like. I dislike the whole Chicago Irish fetish, and therefore stay away from the various parades and expressions of nostalgia, sober and otherwise, that take place in March around here. Perhaps certain people can take inspiration from this example and seek guidance from the 2009 Cubs schedule. 'Tis a big city with many places to go, after all.
Heh. It's really interesting that no one has actually debated the point. They've picked at my verbage. They've called me names (which, to be fair I started with the name-calling) and yet even thunderbelly admits that the odious behavior is something 'MANY' cubs fans engage in.
Ah and Spav1 just became Jennyblur.
I'm sorry to get heated and mean. I sincerely am, but I just can't stand pro sports in this town. It's the bully-boy mindset to it. The "dear god, give them a stadium/cops/parking anything!" all with the vague promises of civic improvement. Wrigleyville is a strip of bars and the area around Sox Park is just now developing, on it's own.
This is an unenforceable mandate that's really going to hurt the bartenders, servers and other people who rely on tips. Instead of a banner night with tons of tips, they have to explain an oddly worded "voluntary moritorium" to excited cubs fans on what should be their fun night.
I think it's a waste of time and money to follow and support sports. But government mandates that hurt working stiff and put them in the position of enforcement? Why that's just bullshit.
I'd sit here and debate facts with you, but i'm going to go enjoy the night. In Wriglyville.
That great American poet Homer Simpson once said "Facts, schmacts. You can prove anything with facts. I see you concur.
@bluefairlane -- thanks! that's what i'm talking about.
Back to the issue of the City's proposal.
It stinks. It will be hard to enforce and it's just stupid. Yes, it's an inconvenience to neighbors to have drunks around. We all know the issue. Bottom line? Let them drink.
Mayor Mumbles' stammering about the controversy just means he should go on another trip to Paris or something.
Ohhhhhh man. There's nothing better than seeing cubs fans spend 50 posts justifying that they're such huge fans that they can only enjoy the event with 9 innings worth of alcohol.
I don't seem to remember any sort of moratorium on drinking anywhere south of Madison when the sox won the world series. That was in this century too.
Why would anyone want to drink South of Madison? That's where all the DEPRESSING drunks are.
It's all there in Mayor Maynot's quotes
"We don’t need your cameras up there showing people getting injured."
Remember, all that matters to Daley for the next year or more is the 2016 olympic bid.
Drunken brawls after a world series win/loss?
Not good.
How much free time does this Albany park guy have?
Geez, you could have been a lot more productive today.
Remember: Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
Remember: Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
So do you only merit a bronze?
You assume we are one person.
Why would anyone want to drink South of Madison? That's where all the DEPRESSING drunks are.
I'll get you a GPS for Christmas. You can pop it on your bike and come to the South side. It'll be great, really.
lol@transplant.
I'd like to think you're one person, but god knows we have enough rich white kids transplanting themselves from the suburbs/private college to this city, and you could pretty much speak for all of them.
Let me guess, you live in an old building which was rehabbed to have all the fancy features you would never go without, yet you feel all local because you didn't move to Armitage/Sheffield.
Then, a few times a month you trek on over to Devon/Pilsen/Chinatown so you can show everyone how cultured you are and sophisticated with various foods that people in India/Mexico/China never actually eat.
Finally, its off to a Wicker Park "dive" bar, aka not a dive bar but a bar with a billion other rich white kids drinking $7 beers from Belgium or some other European country. But, you feel superior to suburbanites because you know you're too good for Bud, Miller, or Old Style.
And by the way I took second in the Special Olympics, although the winner couldn't chew his own food and I could!
Sears tower: Ouch. Funny, but ouch.
I don't seem to remember any sort of moratorium on drinking anywhere south of Madison when the sox won the world series. That was in this century too.
Because there are, what?, three bars in the Sox Park area with about two miles between each of them? Jimbos, Schaller's and one or two other. It's not like the "Murderer's Row" of bars near Wrigley Field along clark street or Sheffield. While I disagree with the ban, having a bazillion bars in one area does seem to be good reason to consider it. There's a reason police descend on Sixth Street in Austion or Burbon Street in New Orleans at the same time every night and make sure every tap is off.
Oh Sears you nailed it in one.
But I'm not rich, grew up the kid of blue-collar immigrants, never lived in the burbs, put myself through school, live in a vintage (which just means old but nice really) in one of those "ethnic" neighborhoods you mentioned that sadly lacks all the marble counter tops of my dreams. And you're more likely to find me at my local bar than going to Wicker Park for...erm...anything.
See, where as the things I say cut too close to the bone, you're not even on the body here.
Any time I take a whack at sports fans it just goes ever on.
And yes, special olympics. Really, Adam Corolla should charge for how often I hear that joke repeated from his days on loveline. He'd be Warren Buffett
@Albany:
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Eat. It.
Albanyparkour - sounds like you got put in a few too many lockers by the cool kids in 8th grade and are now taking it out on everybody via the internet. Too bad, really. You put words together in such a way that I can only assume your time would be well spent on something greater than worrying about people and places you clearly do not enjoy. Get over it. We Wrigleyville dwelling cubs fans don't particularly care about you. Return the favor. And for Gods sakes, pick up a schedule and do yourself of avoiding the area on game nights.
As for the real issue here... this 7th inning solution really isn't one. Those in the bars will only be encouraged to binge for the first seven innings, head to the streets once the taps are turned off, and then return to the bars when sales return after the game.
Hm,
I'm a rich white suburban college kid who hits the hipster bars, has too much free time and was beaten up as a kid. I'm also crazy.
Nope. Sorry.
Look, I'm turning over a new leaf here. Mea culpa everyone, mea maxima culpa. I apologize, really, and only want to be seen for what I am, a piss-take.