My kids do have birthdays coming up.....

They'll definitely take regifted gift cards.

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it was a very entertaining listen.

I've been married a second time....kinda been there. We threw basically a hoe-down...no registry. Total event cost is under $2k. Every single gift we received I felt was gravy and not necessary. The party we threw was to get our friends together and get drunk.

That being said, if you're going to re-gift....it has to somewhat not appear like a re-gift.

Spiegel a douche for caring about his gifts.
Spiegel a douche for having a third wedding. Here's a clue....elope.
Parkins a douche for giving something that just screams "I could give a fuck about you".
Parkins gets a second douche for not just manning up and saying "yeah, probably tacky. " FFS...just own it.

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i wasn't aware of all the gourmands on the board who look down upon joe's stone crab. it's no alinea but sheesh, who knew a joe's $200 gift card is equivalent to a gift card to long john silver's.

I didn't realize he was talking about Joe's Stone Crab and not Joe's Crab Shack. He said "Joe's...the place with...the crabs" and I guessed wrong.

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Which of course makes Spiegs even more of a douche

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

IT'S ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE GAVE SOMETHING AWAY THAT SPIEGS GETS AS WELL!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

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This is exactly right.

Dat's it.

Phone call over.

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is it me or does Spiegel seem a little hyper?

My MIL is this way and she loves to let everybody know what she spent. If somebody out spends her she gets mad and holds a grudge.

I regift all the time. All. THE. TIME.

Restaurant cards are inappropriate for a wedding.

Spiegel sounded like a douche on the phone but I imagine it was hard for him to hang up.

Yes but not as wrong as Spiegel.

Parkins’ gotta save up more gift cards for Spiegel’s fourth wedding in 2020.

Bernstein to Parkins in transition: "Where were you raised?"

I guess he thinks Parkins is as "ill-bred" as Derrick Rose.

I have to check my chart but I'm pretty sure Glencoe outranks Deerfield.

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What if it was money?

Spiegel kind of gets money too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Not sure if there are different gift cards specific to Joe's but it is part of the Lettuce Entertain You franchise and the gift cards I've had cover all of their restaurants....which includes a number of above average choices including fine dining (Everest).

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“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

At least Parkins didn't give him the bonus $25 cards (with a bunch of exclusions and limitations) that you get when you spend $100 in gift cards at Lettuce Entertain You. Now THAT would have been cheap.

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Spiegel sucks in general, but they called him and asked him to come on and discuss the gift with the context already being that it was cheap. what should he have said?

Almost nobody knows what the hell they are talking about in this thread.

Danny came off as cheap and Spiegel came off as whiny. I think most reasonable people agree with that. But I really don't think there's any animosity there, and I don't think Spiegel dislikes Parkins or resents him too much. I think they genuinely like eachother now. It's just that Spiegs is a weirdo and can't do proper ball busting without coming off like an overemotional asshole. But I think the intent was friendly banter/shit talking, not like tense, uncomfortable, confrontational radio.

Spiegel fucking hates Mac now though, which is hilarious. That Scioscia comment at the end was transparent as hell.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Tune in next week when a three-sheets Spiegs calls Connor McKnight at 9:45 in the morning to tell him all the ways he's wronged him, then realizes he meant to call Nick Shepkowski.

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If there is a radio god he will ensure Spiegs calls in drunk at some point in the near future. That would be an all time great call.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

well he called into Hit & Run a few weeks ago under a fake name and Rozner just busted his balls after it reached a pathetic point.

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We opened your envelope and laughed our asses off. We know where they came from! Hilarious, you goof. Anyway, thank you for attending and we will enjoy a great night out.

Fine. You guys have convinced me.

There are no winners here. Both did wrong.

But I think Spiegel is more of a bag in this spot.

I didn't hear the call, but I asked Parko about it yesterday. He told me neither is mad at the other. In fact, they're talking about their next dinner date.

Park didn't "re-gift" anything! Those gift cards are payments for services rendered. An appearance earns a card for $50. And Sports Talk Live gives 'em to several restaurants. You know how far $50 goes at RPM or Harry Caray's? Depending on one's commute, the commitment to do STL is about 90 minutes. In other words, Park worked about 6 hours for Spiegel's wedding gift.

Would I do it? Likely not... but I don't find it offensive. Spiegel knows that show can pain your ass and his former partner donated FOUR appearances for a gift.

Rough spin job, Mac.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

How so, FavreFan?

He’s not very bright.

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As others have, a gift card is just an inherently tacky wedding gift. It makes it worse if the couple getting married knows where you got it from.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You once set someone’s house on fire with a frozen pizza.

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