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Cubs May Play Half The Season At White Sox Home

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Can you imagine the cubs on the South Side, playing home games at U.S. Cellular Field, home of the White Sox? Take a deep breath Cubs fans ... if it happens, it would only be temporary.

If Wrigley Field actually gets a proposed $250 million makeover, the grandstands form the left field pole to the right field pole would have to be rebuilt. So the Cubs would have to play home games somewhere else for at the very least, half a season.

The new Cubs President told reporters Friday, the team may ask to use U.S. Cellular Field.

What's next? To quote the film Ghostbusters: "Dogs and cats living together?"

Some Cubs and Sox fans alike Saturday said they don't want it to happen.

"That's terrible. We don't need these people on the South Side," said one Sox fan.

A Cubs fan said, "That would be awful, an absolute tragedy and I would not go to the South Side to see a Cubs game. Not gonna happen."

But other Cubs fans said what's the big deal – at least U.S. Cellular Field is in Chicago.

"I'm a Bears fan and I spent a whole season trekking down to Champaign while they tore down Soldier Field, "said one Chicago fan. "I'd rather only have to go down to 35th and the Dan Ryan than if the other options were way up north or Indiana or something like that."

One other point worth considering in the city with such an intense baseball rivalry: "I think it would be a great show of sportsmanship on the Sox part, if they let the Cubs do that," said one fan.

Two teams have shared the same major league ballpark before. In 1974 and 1975, while Yankee Stadium was being renovated, the Yankees played home games at Shea stadium, home of the Mets. As far as we can tell, both teams and their fans survived.

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