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From: rcl@tellab1.UUCP (Opus)
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Subject: Re: Re: night games at Wrigley
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 17:59:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 17:59:14 1984
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>  first of all, since the Mets will win the NL East, the question of
>  playoff games at Wrigley field will not be important

Well.... I'll leave that alone for now...

>  second, aren't there Cubs fans who work during the day who would
>  prefer to have some night games so that they could see their team
>  play?                       
>  
>                        Catch a Rising Star
>  
>                        Dan Rokhsar
>  
This one I can't let go by without a comment.

Of course there are Cubs fans that work (or take up space at some place
that pays them :-}).  And of course these fans would like to see night
baseball at Wrigley so they could go see their team play.  But since
these people are fans, they also don't want their team penalized just
because they don't have lights in their park!  If the Cubs are forced
to install lights at Wrigley, then they should be allowed to do it
during the off season, so they can parctice there a while, and then
play the whole season under the lights (this, of course, does nothing to
solve the current problem, but is only fair!).  Installing lights just
for the playoffs and World Series (if either, or both, happens) is 
ludicrous.  No team can be expected to play the most important games 
of the season, and maybe their lives, under strange lighting in their 
own park!  What would Mets or Phillies or Padres or... fans say if the 
lights in their parks were suddenly moved, or changed to a different 
type just before the playoffs?  I bet they wouldn't be happy!

Oh well, enough of the light conversation :-}

P.S.  To Dan Rokhsar;
Dan... I didn't pick on your article out of any malice.  I had just
read enough of this discussion that I couldn't keep silent any longer.
-- 

				Ron Lewen
				....ihnp4!tellab1!rcl

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