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| Author: | walkrman5 [ Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Johnny B & The Goat Walkers |
OK...I am finding this bit / story sort of amusing. I have listened to bits & pieces of Johnny B talking to this guy and it has little flavor of Johnny in the old days. The guy he is talking to sounds like a stoner...but he also sounds like he does know what he is doing, and he is sort of funny to listen to. The gist? 5 guys & 1 goat...yes a goat...are walking from Mesa to Wrigley to raise money for cancer awareness. They think they'll arrive in late may. Also playing up the curse breaker aspect as well. The guy has said he hikded from seattle to Key west to raise money after his mother passed...the goat is more about getting attention to his cause...but Johnny B is playing up all angles of this story. Links: http://www.crackthecurse.com |
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| Author: | walkrman5 [ Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Johnny B & The Goat Walkers |
another link... http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/brandmeier/wgnam-brandmeier-morning-seven-hour-group-hiking-with-goat-to-wrigley-field-022912,0,2330724.mp3file |
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| Author: | newper [ Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Johnny B & The Goat Walkers |
The goat is not walking... he walks a little bit per day but now he is on a cart that they are pushing. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Johnny B & The Goat Walkers |
Amazing that I have now listened to 20 minutes of Johnny B over the last month and I heard this. Felt like calling in...or driving somewhere and smashing these kids heads in! |
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| Author: | walkrman5 [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Johnny B & The Goat Walkers |
Stupid is as stupid does! http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-cubs-goat-walk-0313-20120313,0,6384430.story By Leonor Vivanco, Chicago Tribune reporter 8:31 a.m. CDT, March 13, 2012 One state checked off, one man down and roughly 1,600 miles to go. A group of six Cubs fans and a goat named Wrigley are about 275 miles into a cross-country walking trip to raise money for cancer research. Oh, and hopefully break the Cubs "curse." The six men set out from Mesa, Ariz., site of Cubs spring training camp, on Feb. 25, the birthday of late Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo. They lost one guy to an Achilles tendon injury over the weekend, but the rest of the fans crossed over into New Mexico on Monday and expect to arrive in Chicago just before Memorial Day. "Our spirits are high," Oregon resident Matt Gregory said Monday in a phone interview, with Wrigley bleating in the background. The men also are updating their progress at crackthecurse.com The 4-month-old Nigerian dwarf goat, bought on Craigslist for $60, walks only about four or five miles a day. Then the 22-pound Wrigley is pushed in a cart the rest of the 20 miles they typically hike daily before camping for the night or staying on the floor of benevolent businesses. "Wrigley's got a pretty easy life and a free ride to Chicago," said Gregory, 33. "He's looking good, drinking a lot of water, eating," he said. Just to be sure, Wrigley will be checked out by a vet in New Mexico. The men, also from Michigan, Tennessee, Washington and Arizona, plan to stick mainly to interstates but also are using state routes and even some dirt roads. They've suffered some foot blisters, faced 50 mph winds and even spotted coyotes. But they say carloads of Cubs fans have pulled over to show their support. So far they've raised nearly $1,500 for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where Gregory's mother, who died in 1999, was treated. Their other goal is to "crack the curse" by helping the Cubs win their first World Series since 1908. "Not everybody believes in the curse, but it's kind of a wacky thing," Gregory said. "I believe it'll be broken when we get there." |
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