I never understood how adding a few signs to an old ball park "radically alters the look of the neighborhood", but adding rows upon rows of aluminum bleachers to the top of old apartment buildings somehow retains neighborhood charm.

cookiefleck: ongbok: Kygz: They still sellout every game, right?  Why do they care if more people want to come down and watch it?

If you had a product you spend $100 million+ a year to produce, how would you feel if somebody was making millions a year directly off of it without giving you a cut?

I've never been, but I wonder about how much you can actually see that far up? The boyfriend and I have talked about going to a game, just wonder if it's worth it to sit up in the bleachers on a roof

We had an office party on one last year. It's probably very dependent on which rooftop you go to, but in general, the view was actually pretty good. Plus you get a great sense of smugness looking down at the peons walking on the street, and knowing that you are shafting a large organization like the Cubs out of a few hundred bucks for the product that they are delivering...and giving that money to a small business operator just trying to make ends meet.

..or maybe that's actually giving your money to a large, wealthy conglomerate of real estate and bar owners who wouldn't make ends meets if they weren't stealing someone else's product, and who use that money to grease the palms of the local politician to ensure they have a clear view of the field by bullying the Cubs into not making revisions to the stadium "due to historical considerations", and will probably wind up driving the Cubs out to the suburbs at some point in the future, leaving the neighborhood filled with a bunch of empty shells of 3-story sports bars topped with rusted out bleacher stands overlooking the eventual Walmart parking lot that will be built on the land.

(on the other hand, from last I read, the Cubs do take a cut of the rooftop club's proceeds to some extent)