Signage on outfield wall at Wrigley Field

I know that this is common at just about every major-league park, even Fenway Park, but it's still sad to see this happen at the Friendly Confines:



<a href="http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/weblog/wgnsports/2007/02/post_2.html">
This is according to the WGN-TV Cubs blog.</a>

What's next at Wrigley Field? A World Series winner? OK, now that IS crazy talk.

 

'08 is their year ... and I don't mean 1908.

PS. No, I'm not a Cubs fan. Quite the opposite, Cardinals.

 

The ads are actually going to be on the metal gates in the wall, not the wall itself. Be kinda hard to see behind all that ivy.

 

True, but the gates are part of the outfield wall. If an outfielder caught a fly ball at the gate, the announcer probably wouldn't say, "he caught the ball at the gate." But, really, calling it a gate or a wall doesn't matter. It still looks bad.

 

Ads on the wall/gates were going to happen sooner or later. I don't have a problem with them. The Trib knows they can't fuck with the ivy or the fans would raise holy hell so the ads on the gate are a good compromise.

 

A buddy of mine actually ordered a sprig of ivy from Wrigley and got it to grow in his backyard.

But that's neither here nor there.

That picture is either photoshopped or the signs were there last summer. That ivy's not too green right now.

 

The picture is photoshopped. Comcast Chicago ran it during their show last night to show what the billboard would look like.

 

It is photoshopped. It's from the WGN blog and they're just trying to show how it's going to look.

 

Ads on outfield walls used to be the norm in baseball. Heck, wasn't the Green Monster once adorned with a multitude of ads?

 

Yes... but those ads were cool. there's a difference...

 

The only cool ads are the ones that I never see because of the Firefox adblocker!

 

One of the theories on how "bullpen" got is name was that it was the area behind the Bull Durham Tobacco Co. outfield sign at some major-league park. That would have been around 1909 or so. So, yeah, outfield ads are nothing new.