It's the beginning of the end for Wrigley Field.

Over under on how many articles will we see on the "death" of print media tomorrow?

@metsarethe...: Consider this a nomination for the mercy killing of the phrase "over/under" on things not explicitly related to betting. Sorry, just read it way too many times in the comments this year.

@metsarethe...: There have actually been a large number of layoffs in the print publishing industry the past few weeks, but Consumerist has not covered it.

Good riddance, LA Times!

The Cubs are not part of the bankruptcy filing.

@Ben Popken: So you're revoking Tony Reali's commenting privileges too?

@SarcasticDwarf: Yep... two of my competitors are going to go tits-up with the Journal-Register Corporation's woes, and the biggest paper in the state's a Tribune one... hey, at least my employer's still sort of solvent right?

@SarcasticDwarf: I've read about it, just think that print media will stick around, regardless of what the doom sayers speak of.

@ryan89: Yeah, they're perfectly capable of running themselves into the ground by themselves, thank you very much.

@Coles_Law: They're capable of playing just entertainingly enough to captivate yuppies, but not winning a pennant or World Series.

This is not a left/right argument but when you have a major paper that only caters to a certain group, you lose out on many potential sales.

Seems to me a lot of papers are choosing partisan beliefs over actually keeping a job. Their choice I guess.

@Trick: Are you certain that's the causality? Or is it that the papers in particular markets have discovered which POV gets them the most readers, and decided to go with that?

I believe the same thing with the spanish language papers, which they give away for free.. How about they give away papers with spanish in little tiny tiny print, and english in bigger letters above every word. Do two things at once. cater to a demographic, and teach them english at the same time.