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From: ogre@mhuxl.UUCP (LO COCO)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: ABC action
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 08:17:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 08:17:24 1985
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> It appears ABC possesses a clause in its contract for the World Series
> allowing it to require all WS games to be played at night, and has
> exercised that clause.  Now this has led to much speculation as to
> what the Cubs would do if they were to make the WS (speculative
> indeed, since their making it to the LCS is a dubious proposition).

>   While the White Sox have already offered Comiskey Park free of
> rental, Dallas Green has already expressed his preference for an NL
> site (to increase pressure on the City by implying a move of games out
> of Chicago and beyond Milwaukee?!?), for the logical reason that he
> feels the Cubs chances would be damaged if they play in a "home" park
> with which any AL opponent would be more familiar than the Cubs.  The
> question then arises: which NL stadium?
> 
> So third, I'll speculate on this idly (I'd bet that if it really came
> down to push and shove, TEMPORARY lights would go up at Wrigley).  The
> closest ballparks are Busch and Riverfront.  

> 					David Rubin
> 			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david

	The temporary lights at Wrigley seems to be the most fair to the
	fans of Chicago. They deserve to have the game played there. It's
	their team and playing anywhere else would be totally unfair.
	I hope they can resolve the issue by at least the temporary light
	measure; even if they decided that they should come down after
	this hypothetical World Series.
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