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...Wrigley Field to be sure is a national treasure. The stands are right up close, the walls are covered with ivy and Harry Caray is there to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" with the thousands of bare-chested Bleacher Bums. Baseball the way it ought...
...afternoons are free. No nine to five obligations for this pen pusher. Such is not the case for most folk, though, and there's just a bit of arrogance, dare I say elitism, in this novelist's attitude. Sitting in the stands on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Wrigley, clad in Polo shirt and docksiders, our novelist had forgotten the most important thing about major league baseball...
...fact is, unless there are lights at Wrigley, not a whole lot of assembly line workers are going to get a chance to see a weekday game. The other point of course is that day games will still exist after the lights go on in Chitown. Every other team in the league has lights and they still hold weekday games in the afternoon. It's a case of the glass being half empty or half full. For the pessimists, it means the end of tradition. To the optimist, it means more baseball more of the time. Who could be against...
...seriously. Can you imagine Yogi saying, as the No Lights fanatics do, "It's a bastardization of a baseball tradition." The great Yankee catcher, king of the malaprop, would be more likely to wonder how it happened that the sun could still be shining at 9 p.m. in Wrigley...
...true that the decision to have night games at Wrigley didn't come from an urge to open up the field to the masses. The almighty dollar was the motivating factor. But then again, if it weren't for greed, there would be no such thing as the Chicago Cubs to begin with...