Beset with difficulties with weather and construction from the word go, it now appears that renovations at Wrigley Field will take an extra year, according to Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts.

“There will be four more years,” he told reporters after a luncheon at the City Club of Chicago. “The way we project it now is four more years of construction.”

The project began this offseason with a complete overhaul of the bleachers to help pave the way for two video boards and new advertising signage in the outfield. An unusually early start to winter put the Cubs behind the eight-ball on the project, and even with some mild weather in March, the team has already announced that the bleachers will not be ready for Opening Day, with their opening now slated for May for the left field seats and June for the right field seats.

That the project will take an extra offseason wasn’t the only news surrounding the facility. According to a report from CBS Chicago’s Dave Wischnowsky, Major League Baseball is getting involved in the renovation process, and that the Cubs and White Sox are working on an emergency Plan B scenario that would see the Cubs open up their season at U.S. Cellular Field.

A short time later, a team spokesman shot down the rumor in no uncertain terms.

“Even a goat would tell you this reaches an absolute new low for Wrigley rumors,” spokesman Julian Green told Cubs.com reporter Carrie Muskat. “All is proceeding well and we look forward to Opening Night at Wrigley Field.”

That game, which wil take place on April 5 against the St. Louis Cardinals, will be nationally televised even with the unfinished bleachers as a backdrop. Meanwhile, questions of whether the team should have just moved their entire 2015 slate to either Miller Park or US Cellular Field continue to rage, and stories like these will only continue to amplify that discussion.