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Originally Posted by Leveled
Well, after the city made him pay for it himself.
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I will say this as a lifelong, die-hard Cubs fan: The city was right to make the Ricketts Family pay for improvements. No city, especially Chicago, should be dolling out hundreds of millions of dollars in public money for a private enterprise like this. The fact that they call themselves the "Chicago Cubs" does not make them a public enterprise. And besides, they would lose so much value anywhere but at Wrigley. People love the Cubs, but I guarantee that a very sizable portion of the fanbase would refuse to schlep out to Rosemont to see them play. Leaving Wrigley would have been one of the all-time cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face moves in professional sports. At this point, Wrigley and the Cubs are inseparable.