Today I answered a question about what to do with boys over the summer. Where to take them on vacaton and all.
Great, I looked forward to reading the answers, my own son is 11. One mom posted about the MLB fields and called Comiskey Park something other than Comiskey Park. I am so sad.
I grew up with Comiskey Park, Wrigley Field and Soldier Field and the SEARS TOWER!!! Not the Willis Tower. (Oh, can you guess where I grew up hehe)
Anyway, I know other great parks have had name changes because big corporate America has stepped in a bought them out. It just makes me sad.
Is the Ryan still the Ryan, the Stevenson, the Kennedy? THey haven't been turned into Greedy American Monopoly Way yet, hopefully.
Oh NO NO NO, Not the Rosemont too!!!
And what about the Chicago Stadium, I know that's been a long time. They opened the UNited Center before I left. I saw Nadia Comeneci at the Stadium and Journey, Bryan Adams, Triumph, the Moody Blues all at the Rosemont.
Mom was pretty sad about the Macy's takeover too. She said the clock is still there, but it isn't the same.
I guess we better get to these parks before they all become Big Bucks Arena. I really did love the idea of going to all the MLB parks.
Yeah, I am with you - I will never call the Sears Tower by any other name - and when my son is in school we can debate it then!
Good Lord, my mother (75) grew up in Brooklyn, and STILL (how many decades, or generations, later, 1958) is bitter about the Dodgers moving to LA. Cuz the REAL Dodgers are from BROOKLYN.
You can't have a conversation with her about baseball, however abstract the subject matter, without her launching into how DEVASTASTING it was....
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It was kind of funny here when the Busch family sold the Cardinals and they built the new stadium. Swear to god if Busch hadn't bought the naming rights I don't think anyone would have gone to another game. I think it was just too much for the city to take, ya know?
I mean we sucked it up with the Ed dome, accepted that Kiel was no longer Kiel. We all watched when the Checkerdome was torn down though that was never its given name. This was our line in the sand, if you are going to make us suck it up with a new stadium it damn well better retain the name!
Or when they "change" the road names (like the interstates) ... ugh!!
Here in Texas - We have a stadium with no name because Jerry is waiting for the highest bidder. It should be Landry Field But instead we call it Cowboy Stadium. The sign is just balnk. Waiting for someone to write a big enough check. I understand, but I don't like it.
We have a concert venue and when theres a show they have to say -come see us at The Verizon theatre, formally the Nokia, or else noone would know where it was.
Yep...drives me nuts.
Now we no longer have Three Rivers Stadium...it's PNC Park and Heinz Field.
I LOVE this. Chi-town is my hometown too! I will ALWAYS call it Comiskey Park and I will always say The SEARS tower too! Also, the "All-State Arena" should still be the Rosemont Horizon. And Macy's should be Marshall Fields!!! Can you tell I don't like change???? The expressways are still called the same names. Thank heavens!!
Did they change the name of the Sear's Tower?? I did not know that. It will always be the Sear's Tower. Around here, I refuse to call National Airport "Reagan National." I just can't do it, so I know how you feel.
In about 12 years when the lease for Willis Tower (please, always Sears Tower, thank you very much) runs out, what will it be called? And the Rosemont Convention Center is now Donald A Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont--or was it changed again since I saw a sign for Stevens Center? The expressways are now referred to by their number usually instead of name. 294, 55, 57, 290, 90/94.. Seriously, stop it.
I hear ya 100%. I grew up (and still am) a White Sox fan. Born and raised in Virginia but a die hard Sox fan. My husband told me to plan a vacation several years ago and I was PISSED when we got to Chicago to see my Sox play and they had changed Comiskey to Comcast stadium or whatever the heck they are calling it now. It will always be Comiskey.
Makes me crazy that they do that. We have an amphitheater in Virginia Beach that has changed names 4 times that I can think of. It makes it so confusing when trying to buy tickets or tell someone where an act is coming. I feel your pain.
