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ProfessorGAC

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2. Not Much Sympathy Here

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 10:12 AM

Nov 2014

I know the Ricketts family may be acting like sharks here, but these people got themselves so overextended that a cold summer put them $36 million in debt?

I'd say the rooftop owners aren't exactly a paradigm of good businesspeople and they kind of get what they get.

Besides, i went to my first game at Wrigley in 1961, and there was NOBODY up on those roofs. There was nobody up there until the 80's. So, the "nostalgia" over the overlooking rooftops is quite overblown.

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Wrigley Field Rooftop Owners Owe $36M, Facing Foreclosure [View all] KamaAina Nov 2014 OP

Wasn't that the plan all along? JeffHead Nov 2014 #1

Not Much Sympathy Here ProfessorGAC Nov 2014 #2