The Cubs are the only team in baseball prohibited from playing Friday night home games, by city ordinance.
This rule, part of the original night-game rules passed when the Wrigley Field lights were installed in 1988, has become outdated and anachronistic. The reason given for this back then was to protect local restaurant owners, who felt their business might be hurt by all the people crowding into the area for Cubs games on Friday, a big restaurant night.
That made little sense then and none now. I have written about this prohibition many, many times over the past four years, so many that I had to create this StoryStream to keep track of all of them.