Great Ballpark!

I am looking forward to Wrigley Field.  Haven't been there in a couple of years.  Original plan was to take just my son and have just the two of us.  I had some additional tickets given to me, and I passed them on to some friends.

Robby and Lucas have become good friends in the last couple of years.  Pete, Lucas' dad, is a big Red Sox fan and spent time at Fenway.  I look forward to picking his brain about the differences between the two parks.

How would the two compare?  Both are inner city parks and opened in the same year, 1914.  Wrigley Field was originally known as Weeghman Park.  Charles Weeghman owned a many lunch counters in Chicago, and parlayed that original business into an empire that turned into a Federal League franchise the only year it was in business.  He eventually bought the Cubs, but lost his fortune due to a change in the lunch counter business.  The Cubs were sold to the Wrigley family and the rest is history.

Fenway is the center of Red Sox nation.  The Cubs have been wonderful losers for most of the last 100 years.  The Red Sox have had special pain until 2004.  World Series losses were exquisite, especially 1986 when a good player, Bill Buckner, was eaten up by a ground ball.  1975 belonged to the Big Red machine, and not even Bernie Carbo could change it.  They even had Carl Yastrzemski win the Triple Crown and couldn't win a World Series.

How long until the Cubs get there?  A long time.  Tom Ricketts has a plan to generate the revenue to win a world championship.  I have a hard time seeing the current farm system produce a winner.  It could be a long, long time.  It's closing in on sixty years since the last World Series appearance.  I think it will be another 3 seasons before they are competitive.

So...am I off base?