CAUTION, FALLING OBJECTS
By fuzzmartin
When does tradition trump fan safety? Apparently it does at right now at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Due to the hard-headed Illinitian drive to keep Wrigley Field as time-honored as an Amish farmstead, they would rather allow chunks of concrete to crush the skulls of ill-fated fans than fix-up the barely inhabitable ballpark.
Today (Monday) the Chicago Buildings Commission said there is "no evidence of shoddy repairs," and allowed play to go on at the stadium. There was no word, however, on any "evidence of correctly made repairs" which leads me to believe that the thick-brained Chicago Buildings Commission is more worried about the Cubs playing in their darling stadium than the safety of those who attend the games.
Of course, they did put up 'netting' to catch any falling concrete that may harm the fans, but c'mon - NETTING??? What are you going to do when enough chunks fall that Wrigley is no longer structurally sound? I'm not even saying that it is 'sound' now, but what happens when it collapses and kills a dozen or so families?
Let's get it together, Chicago, it's time for some repairs - after all, you have lights now, Wrigley has already been queered. We fixed up Lambeau in Green Bay, and it has never looked better!
