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I don't get the uproar over the Chubbies doing something for the kids in adding a "cute" type mascot.
Heaven forbid they try to engage younger fans by making a trip to the stadium a teensy bit more fun for the children.badComment
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It's an adorable cub that types tweets that look like this
Clark the Cub @ClarktheCub
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Still figryuing out how 2 tyype with these big pawz. Will gett lessons from @Cubs. Come back soon!!
3:59 PM - 13 Jan 2014
Sent from my mobile device."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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That absolutely isn't true. Clutch EXISTS. Clutch situations exist. It's just that it's mostly noise. There's no correlation year to year. It isn't a skill. Good players like Miggy and Ortiz will be good in the big moments because they're good players, not because they have some mystical abilities.
Tl;dr Clutch plays, no clutch players."Twelve at-bats is a pretty decent sample size." - Eric ByrnesComment
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Of course than some old cranky pants (someone close to my point of view) would say "hey look at Gene Tenace in the '72 World Series!" or "Mark Lemke was a clutch player when the spotlight was on him."
etc etc
It's a rather circuitous argument at times. I think I agree with you that there are clutch plays but not clutch players HOWEVER I do think some guys can have a short timespan when everything they do is HUGE and in the right moment.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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well...I wrote a rather lengthy explanation of my angst re: the mascot...
but it got lost due to timing out...
In short...it sucks being a Cubs fan.
The mascot thing feeds into the narrative that the Cubs and all their acoutrments are merely an "attraction"...and that narrative grows stronger by the day/season.
Sorry for being a "grown man" arguing about a Mascot...next thing you know, grown men will argue about wrestling, eh Uber?Last edited by fugazi; 01-14-2014, 05:18 PM.Australian Rules Football...just sayin'Comment
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The Cubs mascot is what it is something for the kids.MLB: Chicago Cubs
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Sports are an "attraction". It's grown men playing a kids game. MLB wants to have a little something for everyone.
It's really not that serious. Or I guess we should knock Minor League Baseball, the NBA, every MLB team with a mascot and college football while we're at it.
Maybe it comes from having to stare at this all the time (and loving him).
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I get people making fun of it. That's the internet, it's what is supposed to happen.
What I don't understand is the angst. Do you really think the Cubs are like "HEY GUYS WE GOT A NEW MASCOT. WE CAN ABANDON ALL HOPE FOR ANOTHER 100 YEARS WE GOT THE KIDDIES HOOKED."
Wait. I see your point
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I swear on my life I was NOT responsible for this!!
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