Karen Stuart takes a picture of her husband Doug and grandson Royce Geymer, 5 months, beside the Ernie Banks statue outside Wrigley Field in August. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
By Kiah Haslett | The Chicago Cubs filled two newly created positions on Monday. Jahaan Blake has been hired as a “Director of Fan Experiences,” and Kevin Saghy has been named a public relations and marketing specialist.
Blake has eight years of major league experience and previously worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox. According to the official press release, she will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of the fan experience at Wrigley Field and fan interaction in forums.
Saghy previously worked at Ketchum and was named the Public Relations Society of America’s Chicago 2009
Young Professional of the Year.
F-A-R-T
Great photo, the football that guy’s holding looks almost like a real baby.
Fix the product on the field and you’ll have better “fan experiences.” Start by making that brain-dead left fielder learn the definition of “Team.”
His first job will be to teach a large majority of the folks out in the Bleachers how to behave so that you can bring people from out of town and not be completely embarassed.The frat boy stuff has to chill..
Have they filled the Assistant Vice President for Trough Management position yet?
This sounds like a great idea. This will surely drive the Cubs straight to the Stanley Cup. I’ll see you all at the Soldier Field during the Masters. You can put it on the board, Holy Cow.
Maybe he can stop the drunken idiots in the bleachers from yelling racial slurs at the players. It would be nice if they could figure out that just because a player is having a bad game or a bad season, it doesn’t give you the right to yell the n-word at them.
It’s good to see you posting in a Cubs article Milton Bradley. I’m glad you don’t harbor any ill feelings against the team you treated so badly. But, why are you postin under the name Dan?
i’m not sure if its possible but i think the new owners are even more clueless than the trib. co. this has to be a big joke. can someone tell these smurfs that the CUBS HAVENT WON THE WORLD SERIES IN 102 YEARS. you can tell the new director that i experience the flubs in my living room and i still throw up. they need a trough for vomit . lou looks like a bigger clown this year than he did last all he does is laugh.
Will the fan experience include winning the World Series or just $8 beers?
the new position should be called DIRECTOR OF HOW MUCH WE CAN RIP OFF STUPID CUB FANS WHO FLOCK TO WRIGLEY TROUGH the one ricketts guy looks like bartman in a makeover
I can think of several exciting fan experiences to direct.
1. Stand on the field, and an authentic frat boy from Ohio will toss a beer in your general direction.
2. If you’re a female, additional mannerless man-children will be on hand to clumsily, drunkenly catcall and/or grope you while sweating profusely.
3. On your way out, visit the Hall of Absurd Curses.
The bleachers have certainly been home to some bad behavior but it’s hardly unique (or endemic) to Wrigley Field. In quite literally hundreds of games out there over the years I have heard three racial slurs yelled. Maybe I missed a few from the very front row bleacher jerks who get there two hours early and start tossing back beers, but the racial slurs are hardly the norm.
I have spotted fistfights in the ALCOHOL FREE bleachers at Dodger Stadium, and the upper deck of New Comiskey. I have heard the f-bomb thrown around too freely at Soldier Field, Lambeau Field, United Center, Busch Stadium, Minute Maid Park, Miller Park, Coors Field, Shea Stadium (and boy did that pit deserve it), Turner Field, Petco Park, and PNC Park, and for that matter at rec league and high school baseball games too. yes, there’s too much profanity in public today, but Wrigley Field and the bleachers don’t have a monopoly on it.
Bottom line is that there is no finer baseball experience than a sunny day in the Wrigley Field bleachers, the cads, the World Series futility, and the $6.50 beers be damned.
Seats on the field. $15,000 (not including food and beer) each. Put them between left and center. Have hot women run out carrying trays of beer and chicken wings to drunken a-holes in khaki shorts and polo shirts. They can talk on their i-phones and mug for the cameras with greater ease from there.
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
Does Blake have an email address? I’ve already had a miserable fan experience just trying to buy tix on Friday. I’d love to break her into her new job.
The fact that this is not a joke makes me grateful I’m a White Sox fan.
Eliminate the incessant loud music and advertising over the speakers between innings and bring back the soothing sounds of organ music instead.
In case you Southsiders have forgotton, Ask Tom Gamboa about how he felt being attacked by your model white sox fans. And they were high class Southsiders coming out of the box seats…..
Cubs Fan, don’t forget about the Cubs fan that attacked their own player, Bob Howry, a few years back. And get this, he was drunk. But it’s cool because he belonged to a frat.
The Cubs should try a different fan experience……it”s called WINNING IN THE PLAYOFFS AND WORLD SERIES!!! Hey what’s 100+ years and counting!!!!
The one thing you need to understand is Bob Howry deserved it.
Honestly, is this a joke? What qualifications, training, or work experience do you need to be the “Director of Fan Experiences” for a major league baseball team? Please, tell me this is a bad joke.
So what’s going to be the standard? Are we going to class it up a bit by not allowing drunken behavior, profanity and obnoxiousness? That may lower revenues, and there’s no shortage of folks who think that’s what you do at a ball game…I prefer to go and watch the game, have a couple beers and a hot dog and enjoy Wrigley Field – almost impossible now as the bad actors are in the majority – actually had a young man in the bleachers tell me I didn’t belong there and called me an old c—….so, Ms. Blake, tell us which “fan experience” you’re going to support….
ONE HUNDRED AND TWO! ONE HUNDRED AND TW0!
DO I HEAR ONE-HUNDRED AND THREE?
And you fine folks keep buying the tickets.
Can he perhaps see if there’s any way to create a “fan experience” at Wrigley that doesn’t involve having to smell a stadium that smells like mold and urine?
Pardon me. I hate to disturb your ‘fan experience,’ but are you aware of the ballgame. Yeah, those guys down there. They’re playing a game called baseball. Have you heard of it? It’s a really cool sport. Isn’t that why you came to Wrigley…to see the ballgame?
Oh, never mind. Obviously not. Keep talking on your phone while waving at the cameras, and enjoy your ‘fan experience.’
Director of Fan Experiences. Only in Chicago. Sounds like a cabinet position in the Obama administration.
Those two are going to have their hands full, good luck with that.