Who We Are, What We Want

The Cubs are very excited about their Wrigley Field renovations, and the media is more than happy to run puff pieces on the “premier experiences” that will be offered at four new premier—naturally—clubs all set to open around the ballpark by 2019.

But fear not, everything is just like it was in 1969 (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).  “We’re not changing the dynamics of who’s coming to Wrigley Field,” said a team official.  And I am the walrus. 

Back in 1910, a sports’ editor waxed eloquent in Harper’s Weekly on the democratic nature of baseball:  “Businessmen and professional men forget their standing in the community and, shoulder to shoulder with the street urchin, ‘root’ frantically for the hit needed to win the game.”  And now baseball says to its working-class fans, go eat some cake, as if they could afford to.  Come the revolution, those premier club members could find themselves in a whole bunch of trouble.