Et tu Kris Bryant? You had to sell out and participate in this crapola? We need a Chicago version of the ?#?Merica? or ?#?Murrica? hashtags…suggestions?? The comments section is below.
I’m looking for a word you can say in response to ridiculous local news stories, or routinely awful things that continue to persist for some reason.
For example you say “Merica” when you see a dude in zubaz pants eating a “sandwich” where the bread is replaced by grilled cheese and things like that.
Or any weird news story out of Florida. We saw this locally at Wrigley Field with the people peeing in cups along the wall at the Cubs home opener. That’s a Chicago version of a #Merica kind of thing.
As is this Red Bull ad below. It has Mike Ditka. It has the goat curse story which has been beaten to death. It has one of the four whole people in this city who actually talks like the 1990s Saturday Night Live character. Aside from Joakim Noah, and the women from “The Wiener’s Circle,” the pile of crap below is just atrocious and awful on numerous levels.
Much as I love the Smashing Pumpkins, even Billy Corgan comes off as a meathead in this spot:
C’mon Kris Bryant, Billy Corgan, you’re better than this!
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