Wrigley Field hates cup snakes but welcomes beer bats with open arms

The Cubs are giving fans a new vessel to drink their beer in hopes of eliminating cup snakes at Wrigley Field. Behold, the beer bat.

It’s the rivalry at Wrigley Field you never saw coming: cup snakes or beer bats?

Since at least 2017, Chicago Cubs fans started a fun but frowned upon tradition at home games in which they would stack all their empty beer cups and try and create a “snake” stretching vertically across the bleachers.

The Wrigley Field staff and security have long denounced the infamous beer snake and make a point out of confiscating those empty cups during games for fans’ safety. Boo those Debbie Downers.

Well, Wrigley Field rolled out with a fancy new vessel for guzzling Old Styles that one, can’t be stacked, and two, serve as a cool memento. Introducing the beer bat:

Leave it to baseball to come up with a crazy, newfangled invention like this.

Wrigley Field sells beer in bats to deter Cubs fans from building cup snakes

For a first-time Wrigley Field newcomer, the bats look great. For the regular Cubs fans, bring back normal plastic cups and bring back the beer snakes.

Chicago lost 3-1 to the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday, giving Cubs fans more reason to drink their sorrows away (but let’s be honest, they would drink either way).

Videos of the notorious cup snake at Wrigley Field in the past show how much more fun the fans have when they get to unite and create a truly incredible work of art. They can’t do that with the presumably $30 beer bats.

From a financial perspective, Wrigley Field is probably making just as much money selling those overpriced bats as they were selling cups of beer. One beer snake was estimated to cost around $28,800 in total beers poured. Now, with fancier and pricier glassware that holds a bit more beer, Wrigley Field may continue to churn a profit, just without the lighthearted fun of crowds bonding together and forming an epic beer snake.

The creator of the beer bat gets extra points for creativity but loses more points for ruining a good time. Don’t try to change something that ain’t broke.