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@PWSullivan @chicagotribune Paul — wish you’d reached out before writing this. Your seat is in my camera roll (receipts attached). The press box seating and tables were installed wrong — a couple of inches off the drawings, which turns out to be enough to mess up your view. Fixing it means tearing out and rebuilding the tiers, which is too big a job to do between games, so it happens after the season That’s year one of every new stadium. You open with a punch list in the thousands and spend the first year working it off. Designed right, installed wrong, getting fixed. One correction: there are two TVs in the press box (photo attached). They’re mounted where most of the room can’t see them — which, I’ll grant, is a strange place for TVs. Easy to miss. The front wall is nearly full-height glass, so there’s no room for them there; the options are smaller monitors up front or moving the big ones to the side walls next to your row. Which do you think works better for working media? A little context: we opened Oct. 2 with an 8,000-item punch list. Normal for a building this size. We’ve cleared 2,000+ in six weeks. Some are simple, like door closers and paint. Others, like the press tiers, aren’t. All of it will be done before next season Next time, reach out with your critique before publishing. I think you’ll find we’re not too busy to know what needs fixing in the press box — or to reply.