I haven’t attended a Bears regular season game in over 30 years, but more recently I did attend a preseason game with my mom in 2003 or 04. Honestly, I can’t say the stadium experience meant anything to me. I enjoyed the game because we got to sit together and didn’t have to worry about parking. That being said, I understand why fans love the NFL experience-I just don’t see myself ever attending a game by my lonesome. Yet, I wouldn’t pass on a professional baseball game because nobody would be able to join me.
I completely understand why the Bears current love affair with NW Indiana and Arlington Heights is important. The dynamics and particulars mean less to me because the Cubs host the White Sox tomorrow in Mesa, Arizona. It’s a meaningless, exhibition game, but it’s baseball. I care more about Royals v. Rangers (also tomorrow) at Surprise Stadium than I do the Bears stadium issues. For the record, the only baseball games (tomorrow) that I don’t give a lick about are those between MLB teams and the local universities.
As a former math teacher and high school baseball coach said to my parents a hundred years ago, “This time of year, Bob’s focus is baseball.”
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 
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Indiana lawmakers spending public money to build a stadium to lure an NFL team from another jurisdiction brings back bad memories for me.
Whenever people complain about the government building stadiums for billionaires, they should go back to the late William Hudnut III, former mayor of Indianapolis and governor of Indiana. When the city of Indianapolis used taxpayer money to build an NFL stadium, they set the precedent for billion-dollar handouts to billionaire sports franchise owners.
The ironic part is that Mr. Hudnut, a key player in removing a Maryland institution, left Indiana for Maryland after his retirement. He’s buried in Chevy Chase, MD.
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