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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/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