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Time To Tear Down Wrigley Field?

(WSCR) Is it time to say goodbye to Wrigley Field?

The ballpark first opened in 1914 and has yet to produce a World Series. Is it time to simply say goodbye and start over?

One columnist for the Wall Street Journal thinks so. See below.

The Chicago Cubs were a feared franchise until they moved into the above pit of disappointment and despair nearly a century ago. They haven't won a World Series since. It's time for Wrigley Field to go.

Having not won a World Series since 1908, and having last appeared on that stage in 1945—a war year in which the professional leagues were still populated by has-beens and freaks—the Chicago Cubs must contemplate the only solution that might restore the team to glory: Tear down Wrigley Field.

Destroy it. Annihilate it. Collapse it with the sort of charges that put the Sands Hotel out of its misery in Vegas. Implosion or explosion, get rid of it. That pile of quaintness has to go. Not merely the structure, but the ground on which it stands.

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