When you first view the title of this piece in the Sun Times ("No Beer in Wrigleyville"), you can be misled. On the surface, you hear that Chicago is taking steps to try and protect against unruly behavior in Wrigleyville, which is good. That place can be a madhouse when the games don't even matter ... just picture, with the playoff season upon us, what could happen should the Cubs progress into uncharted (for the past 99 years, at least) territory. The measure does, however, sound a bit like grandstanding. The beer-outage would only occur after the seventh inning stretch of possible "clinching" games. So the maximum is three, and it may not even happen at all. Also, sales can resume the second the game is complete ... so we're only talking about a window of 2 1/2 innings. Is that really enough to ensure that the entire area doesn't implode should the unthinkable World Championship occur in Wrigley Field?
The executive director of the Emergency Management office in Chicago, Ray Orozco, explains:
