Slugger’s bar owner Zach Strauss said news of canceled Cubs games feels “like the pandemic is still going on.”
“It’s like the pandemic is still going on,” Zach Strauss, the second-generation owner of iconic Slugger’s bar on Clark, said of his reaction to Manfred’s announcement. “In this neighborhood, in this business, we live and die by the Cubs season.”
“That the fan base might not come back,” he said. “I’m not sure what the draw would be. How would you make baseball sexy again.” These days, as the general manager of Murphy’s Bleachers on Waveland and Sheffield, Fagenholz wonders the same thing Sdralis does when it comes to the potential of a prolonged delay to the season and what that might do to fan traffic in the neighborhood even after a return.
“When there’s 40,000 people across the street [for a game] and another 10,000 people walking around the area, that’s 50,000 people in the area going to bars and restaurants, spending money, buying clothes,” Fagenholz said.Neighborhood businesses took a beating in 2020 with a short season and no fans allowed at games even when games began in July. And even last year, it was midseason before full capacity was allowed.
“As a bartender or somebody in the industry you have to save up as much money as possible ideally during those warm months to get you through the winter because business was so slow,” he said. “To then be at the end of the winter, with that light at the end of the tunnel and you’re like, ‘All right, baseball’s coming back, business is going to start picking up, I can start not having to worry about money anymore — to then just having that taken away.
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