Three, two, one … BOOM.

Three seconds is all it will take to say goodbye. Goodbye to the atrocious troughs, to a dilapidated building and heartbreak. It would only take three seconds to say goodbye to Wrigley Field.

For one, Wrigley Field has become a safety hazard for fans. In 2004, pieces of concrete started to fall from the upper deck. The 94-year-old building was starting to show its wear and tear.

Forget heartbreak – fans had to worry about their head breaking. No fan should ever have to go to a baseball game with the fear of being struck by concrete.

However, given the Cubs’ history, some would say being struck by falling concrete at Wrigley Field would have been a blessing. The impact couldn’t hurt as much as the heartbreak given to fans at Wrigley Field during the last 92 years.

Most recently, anguish came in the form of a controversial fly ball down the left-field line. That’s where Steve Bartman tried to catch a ball barely over the wall in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series.

Five years later, former Cub Moises Alou claims he never would have caught the ball. That seems a bit fishy to me.

Destroying the home of “the Bartman incident” would allow Cubs fans to go to a game without being reminded that Bartman sat here. Ideally, a new Cubs’ stadium would have walls high enough so a fan wouldn’t be able to interfere.

A new stadium would also put to rest the Curse of the Billy Goat. It would put to rest any and all crazy excuses Cubs fans have spewed out for nearly a century. A new stadium is a clean slate for a team that hasn’t won a World Series in 99 seasons.

If it’s not enough that the stadium is unsafe and cursed, fans should accept the fact that Wrigley Field is not modern. It’s time for a stadium that will attract a more youthful and casual baseball fan.

Today’s youth are more entertained with the swimming pool in Arizona’s Chase Field Ballpark. They want to see replays on the big colorful scoreboards, not on the mechanical scoreboard featured at Wrigley Field.

Where parks such as Wrigley field have no room for interactive activities, places such as U.S. Cellular Field have activities for children.

For example, batting cages and speed-pitch machines give kids more to do, and make the game come alive.

Let’s get out of the old and into the new.

No more of Bill Veeck’s ivy smothering the outfield walls. No more billy goats. No more having to look at aisle 4, row 8, seat 113.

With any luck, Wrigley Field will soon be a potpourri of physical debris. And not just concrete will be buried. The 92 years of suffering brought to the city by the North Siders will be buried too.

Someone has to do it.

Bring the bulldozer to Clark and Addison streets, set up the dynamite and push the button.

May I suggest that Steve Bartman gets that honor?