Aluminum bleachers at Wrigley Field (now gone). Photo by Kthypryn (Flickr

What do you do when your aluminum bleachers won't be ready on opening day? Hide under home plate? Get lost in the locker room? Run away?

This is certainly not a position any athletic director or site manager wants to be in. But that's what's happening to the Chicago Cubs as they officially announced they won't have 5,500 outfield bleacher seats ready for the coveted opening day game against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 5.

Ouch. Not a good way to start the year telling fans there won't be a place for them to sit. Opening day no less. The Chicago Cubs no less - those die-hard fans who truly believe at the start of every season that this could be THE YEAR.

Okay, hold on sports fans. You have to give the Cubs organization some credit. After all, they are