The Real Explanation For The Chicago Cubs Collapse In 1969

Unlike Phil Wrigley, Sonny Boy Bill Wrigley was NOT a Baseball Man, but only a businessman. Chicago Summers can be warm & Humid &, eventually players do wilt in that heat, come hell, high water or Leo Durocher:

In short, why there were no lights @ Wrigley Field was because Bill Wrigley was CHEAP. The Philosophy that Baseball was a Daytime Game was passing the way of the dinosaur, such what Wrigley Field has become. Reports have it that there are nets under the Upper Deck, to keep the concrete from falling around and onto fans in the lower level;

The Ballpark is 94 Years Old. Only 20 Years ago did lights come to that park, but most games are still in daylight & players keep on wilting from the warm and humid summers;

Only 18 Night Games per year are played there. There were NONE in 1969. And now Wrigley Field is falling apart. So much for charm in the Old Parks-it's a Nostalgic DUMP;

& Cub Ownership cannot afford the place, as they're considering selling it to the Illinois Stadium Developmental Authority, a State Agency, which owns US Cellular Field, on the South Side Of Chicago, where the White Sox play;

In Short, Incompetence has kept the Cubs out of The World Series, both on the field and off, where Bad Business decisions have been made;

And Wrigley Field is emblematic of all that incompetence;

Mike-RSN-NYCQ