Zell wants more night games, concerts

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Sam Zell Needs You To Help Him Pimp Out Wrigley Field
Published 2/28/2008 by Cubnut at The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -
... Tribune Company is now owned by a supposed money-making genius, and the best ideas he can come up with to wring more revenue out of Wrigley Field are more night games, additional concerts and peddling the naming rights ?! What about the weddings you could host on the pitchers mound, the bar mitzvahs, the graduation bashes, the Congratulations On Getting Out Of Prison parties? We’ve all seen the elaborate staging that happens at halftime of the Super Bowl. How hard could it possibly be to wheel a roller derby track onto the field between innings? Or put a petting zoo on the ...

Thursday Morning Headlines/Open Thread
Published 2/28/2008 by carlheartscubs at A League of Her Own - Front Page
... a note on prospects: The Cubs have five players on Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects list for 2008: Fukudome (30th), third baseman Josh Vitters (43rd), catcher Geovany Soto (47th), outfielder Colvin (75th) and right-hander Sean Gallagher (82nd). Only Tampa Bay and Boston (seven each) have more. Baseball America defines a prospect as any player eligible for rookie status. The White Sox are the only organization without a player on the list. Sam Zell wants more, more, more Obviously the man's very successful, but I ...

Len Kasper rules
Published 2/28/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... So it goes for the Cubs. Fortunately, the Cubs have one of the cooler, hipper, more listenable, not-a-dinosaur baseball men in the business, one Len Kasper. A day after Sam Zell threatened to destroy all that is good and holy about free Wrigley Gum advertising space, it’s ...

Zell is Selling and Maximizing, Much to MLB's Discontent
Published 2/29/2008 by Maury Brown at The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network
... The Cubs reached a 12-year agreement in 2004 that allowed them to phase in 12 more night games to an eventual 30 games per season. While they are now coming up on a third of the way through the agreement, the Cubs want to amend it. As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times: ...