Lots of buzz out there about a new baseball movie that opens next Friday.Moneyball is the mostly true story of the Oakland A's baseball team and how its general manager put together a winning team. A winning team that was put together on a shoestring budget, I might add.
Also in baseball news, the Family Ricketts would like to turn the Chicago Cubs venue, Wrigley Field, into an outdoor movie theatre for a night.
Coincidence?
What do you think?
Come October, when the ballpark would be turned into a cinema, the Cubs won't be needing the field and the owners would like to generate some income because they didn't exactly turn fans away from the gates this season.
It's a match made in heaven.
The overpaid Cubbies and the budget Oakland A's, playing on the same field (so to speak)...will this be an opportunity to watch and learn?
Only next year's roster (or cast, if you will) can indicate which way the Ricketts family is leaning.
In the meantime, the local alderman is all in favor of a movie playing on Oct. 1 at the old ballpark. A nice, family-oriented event of maybe 4,000 people would give mourning Cubs fans a chance to see the ivy in autumn, a sight rarely seen. Worth the price of admission for some dedicated and die-hard followers.
And if Moneyball isn't box office boffo the week before, there's no better publicity for a struggling movie than showing it in Wrigley Field, where the Cubs have struggled for nearly a century.
Those in the Chicago area who want to see what a winning team looks like will be heading up to Milwaukee in October. They might not want to see Moneyball. Too depressing, to know that others have done what no one in Chicago seems to be able to do.
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