WANTED TO BUY A BOAT
BOUGHT A BRICK
SW

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

@ both JORR and Biggie.

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They sent us a second brick when we bought them, maybe they will call everyone asking for the second brick?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Reinsdorf would have never done something like this.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Did they give you a receipt? Did the Cubs keep a record? If not, watch, a bunch of people will claim they had bricks even though they didn't. Looking to get a free one or money back.

Although I guess that 2nd brick they gave you is the receipt

Yes, they sent a certificate...I did not keep the brick and before this issue they have sent letters to those who paid.

I am sure the brick thing sounded like great idea when they started and this "storing" the bricks thing....lol

A good Paver brick is about $3, the engraving and black paint is about another $10....I cant imagine the labor to pick up each brick and store them.

Just say "Hey, we are going to replace them when we redo the front"

Crane Dumbass

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

This non-story is yet another example of the Liguminati caring more about the Cubs then they do Spanky and company.

They're driving construction equipment over this area.......they sent letters......duh.
Please explain the way you would have handled this....CAN'T WAIT.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

Do you really think it's too much to ask to hire a company that wouldn't simply dump the brick I bought for the memory of my dead grandpa who never got to see a World Series unceremoniously in a landfill where some goof can find it, photograph it, and send it to Deadspin:

I shouldn't have to click on a website and see my brick in a dump:

GRANDPA JIMMY
WE MISS YOU
2021 IS FOR YOU!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

If the Ricketts family accepted a contract to perform genocide in Wrigley Field on behalf of some tinpot dictator some of you Cub fans would defend it as a great revenue stream. Stop defending the indefensible. This is another Cub fuck-up.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I'm just jealous no tinpot dictators are Sox fans.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Obama.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Coming soon: Sox Park Women's Health Clinic!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

The City has no money for clinics, but we can pay for a clothing store and a restaurant for the Reinsdorf family.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I wish the Sox did this. I would buy a brick. Then, like a true Sox fan, I would never go and see it.

The Sox have done it and obviously you never go and see it anyway.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

They have?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Is it by the 2005 World Series statue thing? Maybe I have seen them now that I think about it.

why should JR pay DRose's for bricks when the fans will pay JR for bricks?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Whoa, Dan's go-to line "These people are on the wrong side of history. They're all going to die soon" just got dark.

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let me tell you from experience, it isn't fun being the less attractive sibling

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Better than being the dead one.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Poor Steele Dawg...they almost look...happy?!?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

full disclo: I tipped this to Deadspin and they h/t'd me at the bottom of the story. I was as proud of myself as I've ever been.

you know that guy was stuck in the friend zone

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The world needs ditch diggers too.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

I think it's funny that so many people could watch Mad Men and not learn anything about advertising from it. Anyone who says, "It's no big deal, it's just a brick" is a goof. The Cubs didn't sell bricks. No one is dumb enough to pay $160 for a brick. Not even Cub fans. The Cubs were selling memories, connection to the team, the past, their families- nostalgia. And for those connections and memories to end up in a landfill, well, simply replacing the old brick with a new one doesn't remedy the emotional shock of seeing dear departed dad's tribute in the trash.

And that comes back around to why, no matter how many times people repeat it, no matter how much advertising the NFL sells, football will never be "king" over baseball. People just don't attend football games the way they attend baseball games. And memories and emotions aren't formed by watching TV. It's temporary, throwaway. The Wire was the greatest show ever, then Breaking Bad came on and we forgot about it. Your memory, your emotion, your nostalgia- whether it's true or not- is about walking into a baseball game for the first time with your dad. Nobody romanticizes the first time they sat down on the couch with pops to watch the Bears. "Hey, Connie! Get me a beer and I think Junior needs a diaper change!"

This is how horse racing has destroyed itself through simulcasting/computer wagering. I became a fan of racing at Sportsman's Park on Friday and Saturday nights when there were 20,000 in attendance and the place was electric and I stood a few feet from the horses. I couldn't even describe what it was like to a guy in his 20s. Now I only watch a few races a year live. Most I see on a TV screen in a dark bar or at home on my computer. That's fine for me. I was hooked back in 1983 when I watched Cam Fella roar down the stretch between Cicero and Laramie. But I don't think you're going to make fans as passionate as I am over a TV screen.

The Cubs owe anyone who bought the $160 memories they sold and then shit on a big apology.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

JORR you are vastly overestimtating the depth and complexity of the average American's psychology.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

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No, he is spot on with this. It happens once every decade.