Baseball Opinion - Let's go see the Cubs at Tootsie Roll Park!

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Let's go see the Cubs at Tootsie Roll Park!

Christopher Solberg, Editor
4/30/2008

The Chicago Tribune and the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority have been in negotiations to allow the ISFA to purchase Wrigley Field.

One of the main hang-ups to the deal was the financing of the purchase and the planned improvements to the aging stadiumand its surroundings. But Governor James Thompson has come up with a plan, using private financing and partial naming rights to make it work.

Wait............"partial naming rights"?!

Does this mean we could see Cubs games in the future at a partially renamed Wrigley Field? Names like:

Wrigley Field at Orbitz Park

Wrigley Field at Morton Salt Stadium

Wrigley Field at Encyclopedia Britannica Park

Wrigley Field at Midway Games Stadium

Wrigley Field at Tootsie Roll Industries Park

...or any other Chicago-based firm. This partial naming has been done before. Just look at the Oakland Athletics. They are playing at Cisco Field in McAfee Coloseum.

I think the world is coming to an end.

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