rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (08/30/84)
>Cubs fans, stop griping. Baseball is legally obligated to have weekday >games played at night during the playoffs. Giving this guarantee >netted each team (including the Cubs) an extra $700,000 over the life >of the contract. Evidently, management did not think enough of the >Cubs' prospects to insist upon a more flexible, and less lucrative, >contract. > >Thus, temporary lights are mandated should the Cubs hold on. Unless >the Cubs prefer Comiskey... > > David Rubin Okay. I think its time I throw in my two cents worth. The legal system as far as I know puts great emphasis on laws which were passed first. Something about the precedence factor. The cubs are legally obligated to play day baseball by law!!! Various city ordances(sp?) come immediately to mind. This has been in effect as long as I can remember. Now just because management makes a mistake with their contract negotiations with the network(or must now pay the price for not considering the cubs winning very realistically) does not mean they can now gripe and try to break the law. THe networks just have more foresight in considering all possibilities and protecting themselves. I have no sympathy for baseball's management coming out on the short end. Next year they will know better. The contract clearly states what the consequences are for weekday day games. THe law states that there can only be day games at Wrigley. Wrigley is where the cubs play. No where else. Those are the breaks. Live and learn. You must abide by the law. You do agree, don't you? You said so yourself. Ignorance of the laws is no excuse. There is no law that weekday baseball games must be played at night. And even if there suddenly was, it would be null and void by preceeding laws. So rules the court. Robert
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (08/31/84)
The Cubs are NOT legally bound to play day baseball. They are only
legally bound to play day baseball at Wrigley. They are also legally
bound to play home games under the lights during the playoffs during
the week. If both the neighborhood AND the networks require the Cubs
to honor their legal obligations, the Cubs will just have to play
elsewhere. Precedence has nothing to do with it as the two obligations
do NOT conflict. They just are damn inconvenient for the team.
David Rubin
{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!daviddda@houxz.UUCP (D.ALLEN) (08/31/84)
I heard on the news last night that Bowie Kuhn will not force the Cubs to install lights at Wrigley Field. I took this to mean that they will play any Cubs post-season games during the day, unless the Cubs choose to install lights or play elsewhere. Of course, other discussion on the net would seem to indicate they cannot install lights at Wrigley (but don't bet on that, laws can be changed), so I would guess they will play during the day and MLB will pay the penalties if necessary. Go Royals! Dennis Allen