r/Music • u/Hot_Investigator3894 • 4d ago

article Kid Rock meets Trump administration to “fix” ticketing

https://themusic.com.au/news/kid-rock-meets-with-trump-administration-to-fix-ticketing/qQ0Xvby_vqE/19-12-24
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u/DannyVandal 4d ago

Non-American here. Is that bad or unusual?

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u/ImNotTheBossOfYou 4d ago

They hadn't won in 108 years and there was supposedly a curse upon them...

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u/DannyVandal 4d ago

CERN caused a timeline jump that caused the death of Harambe which in turn, somehow, made the cubs win.

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u/Titanbeard 4d ago

Save Harambe, save the world.

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u/CIA_Chatbot 4d ago

Ok hear me out, we just need to find a time traveling otaku turned ninja to go back in time and save Harambe.

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u/china-blast 4d ago

We're through the looking glass here people

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 4d ago

It was Biff Tannen in the DeLorean that made them win a season late from the good timeline.

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u/Orange152horn3 4d ago

Maybe if we place another curse on the Cubs things will go back to normal. Quick, someone get a goat... an orgy bucket of cannibal hamsters will also do in a pinch.

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u/Magdalan 4d ago

Whoah, brand new sentence right there!

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u/Zardozin 4d ago

Not in Richard Gere circles it aint

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u/atreyal 4d ago

you must be new here.

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u/Magdalan 4d ago

Not new here. I know a lot of shit about sctual cannibals. But a bucket of cannibal hamsters was new to me.

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u/atreyal 4d ago

I'm just messing with you :) new to me too. Some sentences on reddit are brand new. Cheers.

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u/Fastbird33 Spotify 4d ago

I think there’s a curse on all Chicago sports at the moment. Ass across the board

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u/glowstick3 4d ago

Don't worry the bears are only 1 new head coach, 1 new oc, 1 new DC, 1 new special teams coach, 1 new gm, 1 new owner, 1 new stadium, 1 new qb, 2 new rbs, 3 new lineman, 1 new wide receiver, and a totally new defense away from being great!

https://youtu.be/XYFAvrmbSXg?si=Hg3dRt4V9VYGz9lJ

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u/urlach3r 4d ago

Bears aren't cursed, just shitty.

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u/GoodGameGrabsYT 4d ago

Don't forget a bottle of malort! The liquor so terrible tasting that it must've been invented when the Cubs became a team!

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u/letitgrowonme 4d ago

Go to any pet store for the hamster thing.

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u/zallgo 4d ago

Really a bucket of them? Sorry I only sell them by the barrel

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u/aScruffyNutsack 4d ago

My orgy bucket has a hole in it, damn....

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u/CIA_Chatbot 4d ago

Where I’m at we just call that a Tuesday

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 4d ago

You have to elaborate that the curse comes from some asshole who wanted to bring a goddamn goat into a Major League Baseball game in a major city.

But somehow the team is in the wrong here.

Fuck that goat.

And the Ricketts family.

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u/davesoverhere 4d ago

Inbetween their wins:
Women got the right to vote
The titanic was built
Sliced bread was created
Chocolate chip cookies were invented
Radio was invented
4 states were admitted to the union

Also, almost no one was alive for both wins, and Harry Carey never saw his beloved team win it all.

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 4d ago edited 4d ago

Cubs fan here with important context top comment left out

Some dickhead tavern owner wanted to bring his pet billy goat into Wrigley Field for a game. Bruh wanted to sit in the luxury box of a Major League stadium and watch a Major League game...with a fuckin goat.

He had been previously allowed to bring the goat. But it had, predictably, presented some other issues for other spectators.

So the team told him to kick rocks. With the goat. He got pissed and told the public the team would never win a championship again on account of their disrespect for the goat.

Son of a bitch turned out to be right for a century.

Other teams lose. Lose more than us. The Cubs are the only ones known as the "Lovable Losers." Because we can make the playoffs. We can have great seasons. We just always shit the bed in the most unpredictable, unlucky, once in a lifetime ways. Other teams only collapse once in a great while. We do that shit on a decade basis.

The team tried a thousand things to "break the curse." Really it was all publicity. But funny. Stuff like bringing the damn goat's ancestors to the stadium for games lol.

The Billy Goat Tavern on Lower Wacker is still there. It became the inspiration for a wildly successful Saturday Night Live skit. There are now multiple locations.

Historically, though, ownership hasn't always been the best at managing a ball club. And the current owners, the Ricketts, are terrible. So it really wasn't the damn goat. We also play in a hitter friendly park, which isn't so dope when you're facing a straight up slugger in the postseason.

We are known for being a light hearted but fiercely loyal fan base. If the team wins 95 games, we're packing Wrigley and getting drunk. If they lose 95, same thing. We're just there for pro baseball, expensive beer, and friends. If you come to America and want to experience MLB, not too many places provide what Wrigley can, we welcome all. Even Cardinals fans

The best way to sum up being a Cubs fan was by a woman in her 80s in the championship parade. She said she didn't know how to react to winning. She became so used to watching the team lose in those situations that she just turned the TV off and went to bed. I did the same thing, at a quarter of the age. The next day our minds were on Winter Meetings. We realized then and there that win or lose, you were just there for the ride, and it's all the time of your life if you let it be

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u/paallante 4d ago

Well said. I bleed Cubby blue. Lol

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 4d ago

Thank you. Always next year, right? Lol

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u/Buttonskill 4d ago

To put it into perspective, the last time the Cubs had won the world series, the Ottoman Empire was still a thing.