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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Cubs: Wrigley Field to host 2027 MLB All-Star Game

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.6632 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In Best of the Cubs this week, Score baseball insider Bruce Levine joined the Spiegel & Holmes Show to share the breaking news that the Cubs and Wrigley Field will host the 2027 MLB All-Star Game; Cubs Radio analyst Ron Coomer joined the Mully & Haugh Show to discuss the club continuing to play quality baseball; Marshall Harris and Anthony Herron discussed Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw's strong performance since he was recalled back to the big leagues Monday; and Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer joined Mully & Haugh to discuss the team's bullpen woes, its effort to sign star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong to a long-term deal and more.

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0:00.0

Speaking of Inside the Clubhouse, the host of Inside the Clubhouse is Bruce Levine.

0:03.7

He now joins us here on the Circus Sports Illinois Hotline.

0:07.0

Download the Circa app today.

0:08.9

Bruce, thanks for joining us.

0:10.2

It was an interesting story that was put out earlier today about security bollards

0:14.8

and security around Wrigley Field being stepped up.

0:18.8

What's the reason behind that? Well, our breaking news is that the Chicago

0:24.3

Cubs will be named the recipient of the 2007 All-Star Game after what you talked about, Lawrence,

0:32.4

here happening. And that is the final thing that the Chicago Cubs needed to do for Major League Baseball and Major League Baseball security,

0:41.5

is to get these concrete dollars, which are going to cost the Cubs, the City of Chicago,

0:47.2

and the state of Illinois, $30 million to put up, to be able to be the host and have a secure,

0:55.2

what Major League Baseball and their security feels is a secure ballpark

1:00.3

for an event like the All-Star Game.

1:02.8

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1:09.6

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1:11.2

Well, that's pretty exciting, Bruce.

1:13.0

The All-Star game at Wrigley Field in 2027, according to our Bruce Levine, when a ballpark

1:18.8

is renovated, oftentimes the owners, especially if it's in a sizable market, if the owners

1:24.8

have put in a lot of their own money, which the Cubs did.

1:32.1

The owners get rewarded with an All-Star game. We've seen that play out around the league.

1:37.5

Is this something that would have happened earlier, had the security issue not been in place,

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