Tribune Letter to the Editor
Cubs’ neighbors
I’m writi
ng in response to “More night games is just talk, Cubs say; Wrigley neighbors voice concerns at meeting with team” (News, March 25).The concerts at Wrigley Field have nothing to do with baseball and should not reflect upon the Cubs’ night-game agreement with the neighborhood. The Cubs’ front office has done nothing wrong. If anything, it has bent over backward in order to accommodate the residents of Wrigleyville who have done nothing but complain anytime the Cubs do something they don’t like.
Sometimes complex issues have the simplest solutions: Move out. It’s that simple. People who don’t like all the people events bring to the neighborhood for six months out of the year can move somewhere else where there isn’t a professional baseball team that has taken up residence.
These groups formed by angry residents frustrate me to no end. It boils down to this: These people moved to Wrigleyville, but the Cubs were there before them. It’s not like the Cubs just all of a sudden decided to move into the neighborhood.
If these complainers don’t like the crowds, the drunkenness or the noise, they should just move away. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to live in this neighborhood and would have no qualms about having a Major League Baseball team for their neighbor.
—Brian Livingston, Chicago
