Why are they playing in Chicago?

Add comment March 31st, 2008

Glad to see the Cubs officially get their game in — and for Carlos Zambrano to look so dominant. But why was this game even played at Wrigley Field? Good thing Bud Selig isn’t a travel agent. He’d send you to Alaska in February and to Florida in August. Baseball has seven teams that play in domed stadiums and the Commish had five of them opening on the road. The other two hosted Texas and the L.A. Angels.

Cub fans don’t want Chicago playing their opener in Milwaukee every year. Fine. Chicago deserves to open every other year — weather be darned — at home. But at least have them playing another cold weather, non-domed team, like Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. Instead, baseball goes out of its way to schedule miserably cold, wet early-season games. The Blue Jays at Yankees game got rained out in Yankee Stadium when they could have been playing indoors in Toronto. The Cubs are lucky the same didn’t happen to them. — Matt Trowbridge