Things at Wrigley Field that just make sense

[@someloser2847]

They’ve renovated quite a bit, which means they don’t need to have the pee troughs but they choose to

[@19MAD95]

It’s an icon.

[@johnmcbarron7282]

Well, you can fit a lot of pee in there.

[@Youngstomata]

It’s easy to clean and aim vs a bunch of drunks missing the urinal

[@areyoufriendly]

Exactly.

[@TonywnoSBD]

@@19MAD95vviiiii

[@st3pp3nw0lf86]

When I worked there as an usher 17 years ago, a guy dropped his phone while urinating. Everyone immediately aimed for it.

[@wheres4drian]

💀

[@OneVision797]

“target locked” kind of stuff

[@NobodyAsked-bh4zg]

☠☠

[@tobaccypipe]

That's not funny wtf it's disgusting

[@Walker-ow7vj]

Damn no mercy 🤣

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Honestly the aluminum foil branded field tarp is top tier marketing whoever came up with that definitely earned their salary 😂

[@mgforce5277]

The headquarters for Reynolds is located in one of the Chicago suburbs so it makes sense

[@SaberedQuill]

​@@mgforce5277that man had his mind blown by an advertisement

[@coreypowers2988]

"yeah we need a new tarp" "how about some aluminum foil?" "Some what?"

[@CZsWorld]

Especially when Rizzo jumps on top of it to make a catch.

[@jBolo1983]

They got fired

[@co1a6k]

Greatest stadium in baseball we don't talk about the pee troughs though...💀

[@floppybird6391]

Worst team though

[@jasonh8434]

@@floppybird6391No… not by any stretch. Still 5 games ahead of the LAST PLACE Redbirds!

[@floppybird6391]

@@jasonh8434 No it’s my opinion I’m a white Sox fan so I hate the cubs it wasn’t like there literally the worst team in the mlb

[@b5Bart]

Worlds best library. As baseball fans you guys ever gonna get your shit together and make the stadium atmosphere more fun or is it just always quiet as shit sitting in a library? "Is this a library, is this a library?" 😂😂

[@HarryPorpise]

@@b5Bart what are you talking about? I’ve never been to a quiet cubs game

[@joshuarivera2250]

I had the pleasure of sitting behind a pole once… it was great hearing everyone’s reactions to good plays and not being able to see it 🤣

[@stephenjohnson9632]

Real fans are willing to sit directly behind the pole.

[@Sportstalk1280]

Just stand up?

[@mitchmitch9892]

@@Sportstalk1280laying down usually works better

[@jaicobflores9923]

Just pay for GA and walk around honestly 😂

[@user-fz3sz2dj4r]

​@@stephenjohnson9632idiotic

[@Noah_RL]

The pee troughs💀

[@kodyyoung867]

Why are they so high? Like the ricochet factor wasnt thought of back then?

[@joshuawall646]

@@kodyyoung867it was but they had better aim back in the day.

[@kodyyoung867]

@@joshuawall646 🤣 you just dissed the whole living population i love it.

[@RH-wn6xh]

I remember one of the games I went to when I was in 5th grade on a school field trip and that was the last time I have ever used the throughs. The lines for the urinals will be long but it is worth the wait

[@3DCreations_]

I remember one time someone put a little plastic target in the center when I was a kid and every guy was trying to hit it

[@calebmoody326]

There’s pee troughs at the Atlanta Motor Speedway too. When you pee you look up at the wall and never look to the left or right.

[@mightloseit]

Like in all bathrooms?

[@DjDummo]

same at indianapolis motor speedway

[@StroudVFX]

Same at the ohio state stadium

[@zacmeurer7749]

They still have them at the A’s coliseum. It’s a childhood tradition to be at chin level with a man’s junk at 6 years old

[@snowdogracinggo]

Many nascar tracks have those

[@CRlMZlN]

Grew up going to Red Wings games at The Joe with my dad, pissing in a trough with several other grown men that reek of beer didn't seem at all out of the ordinary. 😂

[@dustinnunez5077]

Same

[@CRlMZlN]

@@robertj2085 👍

[@allendunwoody3505]

Ya i remember attending a few of those games as well

[@Randetroit]

All out of the urinary?

[@Matt-wf7ry]

Pee troughs have been proven to still be the most efficient system for a stadium to accommodate men just needing to pee than any other system/method that exists.

[@anthonygreen127]

I want to challenge this theory, but I never had a serious wait time to pee. One time, during playoffs after a win... but it's because every man in Chicago knows how impossible it is to pee in Wrigglyville(sp)

[@eank3429]

Went to a festival that had pee troughs that was the cleanest restroom 😂

[@Diogenes-ty9yy]

I liked the pee troughs at old Comiskey Park. There were 2 different in each restroom: 1 at adult height and 1 a foot or so lower with a small sign on the wall that said, "For Future Sox Players Only."

[@ag49521]

What about she-pees for the ladies?

[@76goddam]

@@Diogenes-ty9yythat’s so cute

[@sgtleobella]

My son and I went to Wrigley in 2019 and each added like 8 cups to the beer snake our group was making in the left field bleachers. The ushers who confiscated the snake were booed relentlessly. That game is one of my core baseball memories now.

[@Peter-u2v]

ITS PRIVATE PROPERTY GET OVER IT

[@rubydatgirl]

The beer snake is iconic

[@gainer4914]

beer snake started in NY...NOT CHICago

[@bigdogstatus83]

@@gainer4914No it didn’t. Look it up buddy. It was Chicago.

[@backdoorletsdothis]

​@@bigdogstatus83Australia my man

[@bobertkallahan4392]

Grown adults arguing over who was the first to hold a stack of beer cups sideways 🤣

[@Jared7873]

@@bobertkallahan4392 oh is that what it is!

[@DetroitKidd1]

Wrigley is one of my favorites. Love they kept it standing after all these years. Wish Detroit would've kept ours. Tiger Stadium was just like it.

[@thebuddha4208]

When you got 600 guys that need to take a piss at once. Fill those with ice.

[@Sportstalk1280]

Why

[@jasonmartinez5116]

@@Sportstalk1280 To prevent the odors of piss from being released as it freezes the odor causing molecules

[@awsomesprinkles]

pretty sure they do sometimes

[@Jojo-ot3sv]

As a Fenway fan I’ll feel right at home

[@aidenwhite2131]

real

[@fromulus]

Yeah, especially those obscured by a roof views.

[@SnowUltra]

Same, went to my first game at Wrigley a month ago and it was great.

[@MegaMantim]

My bucket list is to see Fenway...

[@jasonh8434]

Don’t forget the nets to prevent concrete from falling on the fans! Seen all of these and love them all! Wrigley is baseball Mecca! Go Cubs!

[@johnmcbarron7282]

I believe the upper deck was rebuilt completely so we won’t need that for a while, not until it falls into disrepair again, and another 30 years or so.

[@NChapaWI9436]

Both yalls stadiums are over 100 and crumbling 💀

[@johnmcbarron7282]

@@NChapaWI9436 Wrigley isn’t crumbling. It’s been almost entirely rebuilt in the last 10 or so years.

[@Youngstomata]

@@NChapaWI9436get use to it. It’ll be there for atleast another 100 years

[@jiimmyplayz]

​@@NChapaWI9436wrong

[@xmax9297]

A real fan would call this character and just some of the reasons we love Wrigley. It’s a gorgeous park with a rich history and I’d take it over most of the other eyesore “modern” parks out there. P.s. the across the street bleacher seats were built before the new sign went up so that’s a dumb complaint. Let’s go Cubbies! 🐻 ⚾️

[@nykon4693]

Love this stadium. No amenities around, just gotta sit and watch a game. The only attraction is the Bartman seat people line up to take a photo after the game

[@Capybara_Productions]

The marquee being like the most photographed spot in Chicago:

[@tortellinifettuccine]

What? It's in Lakeview, the only place in the USA other than New York where there are all amenities at all times everywhere in Chicago but especially the northern neighborhoods.

[@TylerAnselmo11]

I can attest.. I lived in a building right across the street for years and would watch the games with my friends when I was in college in the roof.. the building owner never took the payout from Wrigley it was awesome. 655 Addison ❤❤ miss you

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Yes the famous seating right behind the pole. The good news is you put the texter of your party right there cuz they're not even watching the game LOL

[@maribel238]

I love my Cubbies! There is no field like Wrigley Field. Right in the middle of the neighborhood. The history! It is such an amazing feeling to be there! My son was born November 26 2016. Weeks after they won the World Series. His middle name is Wrigley.

[@matthewrichert9139]

I remember as a kid waiting for a spot at the trough, there was a guy yelling the question to everyone, "How come nobody ever wants to use the round one with me?".......it was the sink

[@GreenSkyGuy13]

Troughs are a national treasure. I live In Michigan and used a trough at the joe Louis arena before it closed, and me and my dad were disappointed when there weren’t any in the little Caesar’s arena 😂😂😂😂

[@joshoverbeek325]

They used to be set up that way in Michigan stadium as well.

[@SlicersGolf]

There’s just something about “Pee trough,” and “ Little Cesar’s,” together that I never want to be seen in the same sentence again. Lmao 😂😂😂

[@AlphanumericCharacters]

So, pops taught you to be a pecker peeker too?

[@magnus1001]

Wrigley Field is the best ballpark ever! My parents took us there many times as kids (we lived 2 hours away) and we always had a lot of fun. Hotdogs, pop, snacks, a souvenir. We kids loved it when it was a day that you got a present for attending the game. Then afterwards we went out to dinner at one of the many great restaurants in town. Thanks Mom and Dad! I love and miss you both.

[@GigaWigga368]

🥲

[@saintseymour]

ballgame with the family is what it’s all about ❤

[@magnus1001]

@@saintseymour Yes!

[@MPMcDonald]

Going down the steps and then back up to emerge with the field spread out before you with lush green grass, rippling ivy, the iconic old scoreboard all topped by clear blue sky. It will forever be one of my favorite things about going to a Cubs game.

[@BIGWojo68]

The Friendly Confines! The greatest ball park in the MLB. Where it still feels like old school, back yard baseball. It's like stepping back in time. No other ball park has that feeling, except for Fenway.

[@nonyabizz3533]

They need to demolish both Stadiums.

[@dylancrozier84]

​@@nonyabizz3533 what are you, a cardinals fan?

[@nonyabizz3533]

@@dylancrozier84 Brewers baby

[@Doctor_Buckets]

Wrigley is a craphole

[@trekkiexb5]

@@nonyabizz3533 Can't they both have been renovated and both are National Historic Landmarks.

[@jeffrey_solis90]

Wrigley is such a great place to watch a game. Had a fun time and yes, you have to contribute to the beer cup snake

[@Imhimatbaseball11]

I’m just saying, I wouldn’t mind peeing in a trough😂

[@TheOrangeRoad]

We have them here in Oakland. I never had a problem with them.

[@SC68170]

U probably don't mind walking down the street naked in a pride festival either

[@jbrandona119]

@@SC68170damn bro you’re in public. Stop thirsting so hard 🥵

[@ff--ji5yj]

​@Michelangelo181 they are so efficient. You can fit 4-5 people in a space that fits 3 urinals. Don't be a meat gazer and you won't have a problem.

[@snoozle444]

@@TheOrangeRoadI guess I wouldn’t mind it either being that Oakland gets like 200 people that show up a game

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Man, Wrigley is SO updated now. As a kid in the 80’s, all of the seats were still made out of wood. The concession areas were so crappy, and the bathrooms were a nightmare 😂. It looks great now TBH. We used to walk in the stadium for free after the 7th inning, which was allowed. Even bleacher seats were $10 late into the 90’s. Times have really changed.

[@darealpapajon]

I respect old stadiums but boy they arent going to be safe in 20 to 30 years

[@nelspaulson3099]

They already went through all of that. There used to be nets under the upper deck to stop falling concrete. Since new ownership, the entire building has been through renovations in the off seasons so in most ways it is only a few years old, but you don't mess with a classic too much.

[@MasterOfViewership]

the beer snake is the epitome of "winners never quit"

[@mateo1726]

Not a huge baseball fan but I once was and my parents took me to Wigley in my early teens. Such a cool experience and a great stadium despite its “quirks and features” (Doug Demuro reference). I hope it isn’t ever torn down for some modern monsteocity

[@SCOOTERstreams]

As an 11 year old boy, I thought everyone was pissing in the sink. I still remember the stench. It's very fitting for the Cubs.

[@MaddenBeastmode]

I’m a Sox fan, we don’t even have pee troughs😂

[@cesnav7593]

no, you have shootings and fights almost every game

[@Chuychubacca]

Shootings maybe, fights? Cubs fans have more fight at their stadium and our stadium and most times they’re fighting each other not even the opposite fan 😂

[@Nameentered]

The red Sox got rid of the pee troughs? I haven't been there in 20 years. But they used to have them

[@Nameentered]

​@cesnav7593 that's straight up garbage

[@73ajd1]

You know what else you don't have? A baseball team.

[@USAball753]

I’ve been to Wrigley field once to see a cubs vs cardinals game it was awesome

[@TheWinstonSlip]

Rookie of the Year was a great movie!

[@deroso3294]

That’s the only time I’ve ever cheered for the Cubs.

[@justinhopper5941]

Did he just say funky butt loving?

[@kayemtee5312]

Best ballpark this Met fan has ever been to.

[@jimcarreysthemask5246]

as somebody who literally lives in chicago this is a pretty nasty stadium

[@BestTboneSteak]

Best Stadium in baseball, everything is an icon here.

[@airallen9411]

That looks like a miserable time lol

[@grbmajor6645]

It's a shithole, but the fans make a bearable.

[@Doctor_Buckets]

It is. Wrigley is a craphole

[@SportsShortsA]

I was actually at that rooftop behind the scoreboard during game 6 of the NLCS 2016 and I can tell you, we watched most of the game on the TV

[@Michachel]

My school played their championship game here last year :D

[@XroorX]

In Rio, during carnevale, there are huge troughs filled with chunks of ice

[@Void_ann]

As a lifelong cubs fan from Iowa, my 1st and only time to wriggled I set underseats behind a pole.

[@cp_816]

My high school football field restrooms have pee troughs 💀

[@MGTheBaller]

I live in Chicago and I noticed at wrigley Field almost everything you say

[@ericerto8250]

God that please bring back memories. My great grandma took me there when I was a little kid to watch the Cubs. It lives in Chicago my whole life and I've only been there like three times

[@Nraff9]

As someone who lived a walking distance away this is so true

[@ymatktpk11]

It’s like a poor man’s Fenway

[@miltiaspogfrog9684]

These things is what makes wrigley wrigley though.

[@ECE77242]

We love our Wrigley Field! And very proud of it! And yes! It is an old building! And looks great! (Some recent Renovations done)

[@joshuabrown5123]

Been to Wrigley twice. It's nice to visit for the nostalgia factor and the ballpark tour is fun too. As for the game viewing experience, it can be challenging and I prefer many other ballparks over Wrigley.

[@ietonewowoi3053]

As a Cubs fan I just sat here going “yep, yep, we don’t talk about the troughs”

[@Xboxking2365]

As a cardinals fan I hate the cubs so I see this as an absolute win

[@wewin03]

Since they added the video screens it’s not the same. I’m glad I got to see Wrigley before they were added.

[@johngalt671]

So thankful my parents loved me enough to raise me a Sox fan 🙏

[@alexalt1215]

Real cubs fans remember the old bathrooms with sinks that looked liked troughs…

[@johnmcbarron7282]

It could be confusing after a few beers.

[@MegaMantim]

Much of Wrigley is rebuilt...I didnt see any pee troughs yesterday but the pole, the upper deck blocking view and the 50 layers of paint is spot on...

[@Spida_am]

I went to wriggly and I’m from Texas. Everyone was drunk and it was hard not to laugh

[@mikeangelvaz]

Wrigley is just an extension of the bars around the neighborhood. I've noticed that a lot of people that go there treat it as a bar and don't pay attention to the game and only react when the crowd watching the game react.

[@Spida_am]

@@mikeangelvaz well when the cubs suck it’s hard to pay attention 😭😭😭

[@distantgalaxymusic1447]

You’d think the Cubs would want a new ball park considering that Wrigley has never at any time offered the Cubs a home field advantage. Even when they had great teams that won pennants the American League teams would show up and beat the brakes off them. 1 championship in that park in a 108 years? They had a 71 year WS drought. No matter how great their teams were they were always better on the road and barely played .500 at home. Very strange.

[@penguinDJ_7]

You should see Memorial Stadium in Nebraska

[@themanwithnoname5325]

My dad painted that stadium in the 90s, in the winter, said it was one of the worst jobs he ever worked, that and the old soldiers field.

[@NChapaWI9436]

“Greatest stadium in baseball” my ASS 🤣

[@steverogers9452]

I'm a Dodger fan, but it's on my bucket list to visit Fenway and Wrigley as they are the only 2 parks that are older and have more history than Dodger stadium.

[@IreneDaQueen]

What's a beer snake?😅 🐍😮

[@IreneDaQueen]

@Isaac Groff 😂😆

[@imknowimstupidwhenisaythis3159]

@@IreneDaQueen buncha cups of beer together I think but dayum the stadium makes money from all that

[@brianhayes4388]

When the north side kids get bored of the game they like to stack cups

[@daleftuprightatsoldierfield]

A massive stack of empty beer cups

[@BigBrueser]

Randomly visiting from Cali, got tickets to a game and have to Wrigley is probably one of the best baseball experiences I’ve ever had.

[@ChaseRiver2]

greatest place to see baseball in the whole world

[@munky1806]

Bro piss troughs r like standard here in Australia. If it's a large bathroom it's uncommon to not have them

[@kellyjay7448]

Been here more times than I can shake a stick. Although I haven't been since the Ricketts bought the team. I was at the 8/8/88 rained out first night game (was stuck under the scoreboard with Ronnie Woo Woo during the deluge). Went to the Old Timers Game/Home Run Derby the day before the All-Star Game. Best pitched game I ever saw was Maddux beating Hershizer, 2-1. Win or lose, always a good time.

[@Capt620]

I mentioned the pee trough to a female friend and she didn’t believe that it was a real thing. She could not comprehend a bunch of men standing shoulder to shoulder peeing next to each other. Her main hang up was “doesn’t everyone just stare at each others wieners”. I explained that we just unzip, stare straight ahead, shake off, zip up and walk away. She still didn’t believe me until a few other male friends confirmed pee troughs exist.

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Wrigley field is ancient and has been a huge part of Illinois Chicago history

[@Wantedforarson]

As a fellow Chicagoan this is true history

[@HariSeldon913]

The rooftop seats were there decades before the scoreboard was put in and if memory serves there were lawsuits filed.

[@davidkeller2208]

I believe the scoreboard in RF was there to purposely block the view of those rooftoppers because they were watching Cubs baseball for free without buying tickets.

[@MrBlackFabio]

At least the pee troughs are cleaner now than what they looked like back in the 1980’s. Also, those rooftop seats make the owners of the buildings a good amount of money. They do need to get rid of the seats behind the poles.

[@BMoney8600]

As a lifelong White Sox fan this made me feel good. Yes I know my team sucks.

[@abukolt01]

The roof top seats are 108 years old but the score board in front of them is way younger. Also, the ushers don't allow beer snakes in the bleachers anymore.

[@PixeledYT_]

As a local, I can agree this makes sense

[@2pr0sp3r]

Hands down my favorite stadium.

[@barelyontime]

The scoreboard is actually there to spite the people in wrigleyville who got to watch the cubs for free. Those stands were made by the fans

[@roycealgonquin8139]

Been to a many stadiums. Wriggly was hyped. Was disapointed and let down when I visited. Place is stuck in the early 1900s. At least theyre making improvements.

[@CircleOfInevitability]

The pee troughs are great. Mens bathrooms are already quick and the troughs make them legitimately fast af. Fit in 2x the people and its not awkward

[@whataniceguitar]

wrigley and fenway should NEVER be rebuilt. i'm sad my boys in the bronx have been relegated to a new stadium

[@SashOkVR]

I went to the youth cubs baseball camp and on the last day we went yo wrigley field, met a player, got to run ON THE FIELD and went in the commentator’s box. Coolest experience EVER

[@TheBrokenTable]

People were probably confused when you doing chef kisses to air while your phone was facing a pole

[@anotherrandomguy2763]

I love how Chicago won’t do shit to fix up this statement but they fixed up the Sox’s

[@Will_b83]

I’ve been to quite a few stadiums and there are always a few seats right behind supports.

[@Purlypurlington]

Lmfaoooo the scoreboard in front of seats is so personal I never noticed

[@rickrose5377]

The Cubs did not install the rooftop seats. Those buildings used to have just a few residents in lawn chairs on a flat rooftop. Then entrepreneurial pirates leased the rooftops, constructed the stands, began charging premium prices, and tried to steal the Cubs' product without paying any fees. The scoreboard was constructed later as a way of saying, "you can't steal our product for your own profit." I first went to Wrigley Field 64 years ago. Crowds (sic) of 3,000 to 5,000 fans were not uncommon. On Ladies' Days women were admitted free. When I began going, bleacher seats were 90 cents, grandstand seats were $1.50, upper box seats were $3.00, and lower box seats -- the best seats in the house -- were $3.50. You could go and watch the Cubs lose and not spend more than 5 or 6 dollars.

[@davephillips4009]

The troughs at The Big House sound like waterfalls

[@360Jopo]

The rooftop seats were originally not blocked. Ricketts did such out of spite.

[@jerryklooster438]

A great childhood memory is riding to the ballgame down Lake Shore Drive, turning off at Belmont and meandering through the neighborhoods until you reach Clark and then, all at once, beautiful, old Wrigley appears like a castle.

[@tracycosta6373]

Iconic from field of dreams. """Keep it they will come """

[@freshdonut9546]

Fenway is older but all of that is amazing

[@matts719]

Never had an issue with the pee troughs. They keep the piss line moving. The troughs beat the restroom accommodations at Soldier Field, I can say that with certainty. I’ve come close to pissing myself many times waiting in that queue. I’m sure I’ve damaged my tackle the numerous times I’ve been beer’d up and in utter agony waiting in that damn line.

[@AgenderBirdArt]

As a Chicago native I can confirm 😂

[@RobertSmith-kb3jl]

To be fair, those rooftop seats were there long before the signs. There was even a lawsuit to prevent the signs from being erected.

[@robnirenberg4727]

Sat on a rooftop. One of the coolest ways to watch any sporting event.

[@Pugchump]

Fenway > Every other stadium > Wrigley

[@BedardHawks]

Best Park in baseball.... it's just perfect. Every team whose built a stadium in the last 30 years has tried to build in some Wrigley mystique into the design for a reason

[@darknutgaming5510]

Other things about Wrigleyville. The traffic, overinflated everything, tourists from Naperville, the perpetual smell of alley urine, greasy sidewalks, homeless bum secks, $2 whiskey specials