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One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:49pm.

I can't believe it has gotten to the point where I feel compelled to say this, but...

 

April Fool's.

 

(just in case anyone hasn't yet figured out that the entire thing was a scam. Nice work, everyone...)

 

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#1 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:54pm.

Screw that...

But so long Chad.

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#3 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:55pm.
Hope we didn't distress ya, Joe.  :)

#5 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:56pm.

I was a tad nervous. I don't want to have to read TWO blogs. That's just too much work.

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#7 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:59pm.

~manly guy-hugs~

 

Nope, still just us.  

 

But I DO wish that we had gotten cell phones and I-pods and all that other cool stuff. The Good Doctor was making me envious. 

#26 Re: One final update

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:36pm.

cell phones and I-pods and all that other cool stuff.
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...apparently, it was trying to get the Guitar Hero perk for Trans that was the deal breaker

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#32 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:40pm.

Awwwwww....

 

It's too bad, too. I've only played once, and would have loved to have my own....

#2 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:54pm.
Damn, we're smooth. (But mostly Cubnut, Rob and Ruz. They did virtually all of the heavy lifting. I just got to play myself - an angry crank with an over-inflated sense of dis-enfranchisement and isolation.)

#12 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:03pm.

you're still an ass. :)

 

 

#13 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:04pm.
Takes one to know one!

#14 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:05pm.
Manny agrees...

#16 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:07pm.
So does Heinie Massman

#66 Re: One final update

Submitted by 10man on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 8:56pm.

Speaking of Heinie Massman, where the hell was AZPhil during all this?

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#69 Re: One final update

Submitted by big_lowitzki on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:06pm.

Umm... I think AZ Phil may actually have a life.

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#70 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:22pm.
AZ Phil doesn't have time for our tomfoolery...

#4 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:56pm.

...so no jism?

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#6 Re: One final update

Submitted by jacos on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:57pm.

ha

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#8 Re: One final update

Submitted by nohit on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 1:59pm.

But how are we going to fund improvements to the site now??????

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#9 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:00pm.
Rob will be posting embedded videos of him dancing and singing Karaoke to "Let's Go Crazy", then asking for donations.

#67 Re: RobG posting videos of himself

Submitted by 10man on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:00pm.

That would be counterproductive cos then you'd have to start paying us to come here.

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#10 Next time, play fair

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:01pm.

Boooooooo --- saying "this isn't a joke" in the set-up is seriously bad form.

But, as an off-day actviity -- worth the effort.

Strong performances by the entire ensemble cast.

#11 Re: Next time, play fair

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:02pm.

sorry about that...not up on my April Fool's Day etiquette!

 

#15 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:06pm.

in case anyone missed the writers page
http://www.thecubreporter.com/our-writers

#17 Re: One final update

Submitted by Ryno on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:08pm.

Well that was fun.

What better way to spend day two of the season, an off day, after losing the opener:

Distraction.

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#18 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:15pm.

Now is Chad going to live up to his word? Or was he in on it too?

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#19 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:16pm.

I'm curious about that one, myself...

 

#20 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:22pm.

Maybe he's already over there, waiting for you.

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#23 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:25pm.
THE perfect conclusion to this day would be to discover that BCB readers bought in to all of this, and were saying "Why the heck are they getting advertising and cell phones and stuff, and we're getting Trans?  What sort of trade is THAT?"

#24 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:26pm.
100% certain Chad was playing along...he's not a fan of the BCB.

#25 Re: One final update

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:32pm.

I hate that fucking board. You couldn't pay me to be a regular there.

I knew it all was a joke, i thought I'd have some fun too. And I wanted to see if people would applaud my departure or mourn me. I got neither, really.

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#29 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:35pm.
Heh.  Nicely played, Chad!

#30 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:37pm.

I think everyone was just trying to figure what the fuck was actually going on.

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#31 Re: One final update

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:39pm.

At first I was a little confused but when Trans lost his shit and went berserk at Ruz, I knew it was a gag.

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#33 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:41pm.

Too convoluted for me.

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#61 Re: One final update

Submitted by Mister Whipple on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:29pm.

Not me. I was certain that Trans was playing it straight. He's just that arrogant and self-involved in real life. I can get away with saying that because he and I go all the way back to summer camp together. You think he's pompous now? You should have seen him at Camp Tawonga. He boycotted the canteen for a week because they started selling Pepsi. He's an asshat but I love him.

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#21 Cubs in on it?

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:23pm.

I am assuming Kerry's performance was all part of the scam? Maybe his calendar was off because of the leap year and the earlier daylight savings time.

#22 Re: One final update

Submitted by Hrothgar on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:24pm.

i don't give a horse's patoot if it's april fool's or not. i just want my farking free phone.

#27 Re: One final update

Submitted by jacos on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:33pm.

You guys are brutal.

You have ruined my day of listening to the radio of reports of aliens landing in New Jersey.

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#28 Re: One final update

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:33pm.

And Wrigley Field? Anyone see that POS movie the Comebacks? The crappy football cliche' coached by Lambeau Fields?

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#34 Re: One final update

Submitted by 433 on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:42pm.

Laughing is fun. I feel like a haiku!

Only T.C.R.
Could make an April Fools joke
Seem fake, real, then fake

I am addicted
To writing silly haikus
Someone please help me

#62 Re: One final update

Submitted by Mister Whipple on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:31pm.

You think Haikus are fun? You should try your hand at the six word memoir.

One of my favorites is "Put whole self in. Shook about."

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#65 Re: One final update

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:37pm.

Put hand in pants, shook about.

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#35 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:51pm.

It was good joke, but how is all this un-professionalism going to look your new sponsor? I can't imagine Motorola is going to like it's new sponsorship to begin like this.

And for the love of Jesus Presented by AT&T, can't you take down that logo now?

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#36 Re: One final update

Submitted by mannytrillo on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:53pm.

Shocking!!! Shocking I tell ya!!

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#39 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:59pm.

I feel like I was given a day-long shocker by TCR. Thanks guys.

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#40 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:03pm.
God, I feel bad for Joe.  We owe him a drink.

#41 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:09pm.

Yes you do. You shouldn't fuck around with peace-makers.

But actually, I was THANKING you for the shocker. Who said that it was a bad thing?

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#42 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:12pm.
Ok good.  Last thing I want is for fellow pacifists to put me on a hit-list....  how embarassing!

#45 Re: One final update

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:24pm.

Word, but what great irony! I don't have a hit-list, though I do have a piercing-sarcasm-list. You don't want to be on it.

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#37 Re: One final update

Submitted by Vegas Brian on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:55pm.

I just traded my Samsung for a new Motorola phone at lunch to support you guys..and I come back to see this?

What do I do now?

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#38 Re: One final update

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:59pm.

I can't imagine Motorola is going to like it's new sponsorship to begin like this.
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Moto-rola is probably too busy splitting up into two parts, separating the cell phone bus. from everything else and running like hell from investor/troublemaker Carl Ichan. As long as they can keep their ads up on that green screen behind home plate at Wrigley...all will be OK.

Oddly, I see a bizarro parallel between the above wrt Sam Zell and MLB.

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/who/who-int...

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#43 Re: One final update

Submitted by Andrew on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:17pm.

Nice work all around. The whole thing was good but the whole Trans' tirade was a stroke of genius. It too me a little while to figure out that was part of the act. When both Rob and Ruz responded within ten minutes though, I knew. That and the bit about potato salad.

But hey, I haven't had that much fun with the lame April Fool's Day in a long time. Kudos.

#44 Re: One final update

Submitted by Jace on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:22pm.

I started to suspect when I read crunch's post, but when Trans wrote "cripes", I knew it was a sham!! Noone writes "cripes" unless they are joking!

#46 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:36pm.

Aww cripes, I really must be the only person left who uses that word.  I blame Mamma Trans.

 

 

#63 Re: One final update

Submitted by Mister Whipple on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:32pm.

I'm really tickled by your use of "cripes."

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#68 Re: Trans cripes

Submitted by 10man on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:06pm.

Just be thankful Mamma didn't teach you to whoopsiedaisy

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#47 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:38pm.

I thought Trans threatening to go to BCB was the true giveaway...I mean no one could get that pissed to do something like that. :)

 

#48 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:44pm.
Bah.  For all you know they have been trying to poach me.  Where's my raise?

#51 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:51pm.

you are a valuable commodity to TCR (presented by Motorola), so I will offer a 300% raise on your current salary.

 

#53 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:52pm.
sweeeeeeeeeet

#54 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:55pm.
Do the math...

#55 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:03pm.
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww cripes.

#50 Re: One final update

Submitted by nohit on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:48pm.

Who wouldn't be gellin' like a felon to be tellin' their tales with Al Yellon? I mean, really...

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#49 Re: One final update

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:45pm.
I'll reset the site tonight btw...to reveal our actual new sponsor, Sam Zell!!!!

#52 Re: One final update

Submitted by carlosrubi on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:51pm.

Video analyzing K-Fuk's homerun cut from yesterday's game. Looks like he doesn't have a single hole in that swing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

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#56 Re: One final update

Submitted by Jace on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:16pm.

No, no, Trans. You are NOT the only one whouses that word. I think we have talked about this before, but I think it one of the most underrated words in the english language for comic value. I have been teaching my kids to say it. There are few things as funny to me as hearing my 3-year-old son say "Aw, cripes!".

#64 Re: One final update

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:37pm.

Good call, I'd forgotten that.  The army of cripes-users grows larger...

 

And Carlos, you got me, too.  In fact, I didn't even know what a rick roll was, until I got rick roll'd.

 

 

#57 Re: One final update

Submitted by Jace on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:18pm.

You ass, Carlos! You got me!

#58 Re: One final update

Submitted by gobuckeyes on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:28pm.

Fantastic job!

I figured it was an AFD joke the whole day, up until I saw Trans' explosion. At that point I started to wonder if it was legit...

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#59 Re: One final update

Submitted by Indiana JJ on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:14pm.

Dammit Carlos. You suck.

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#60 Re: One final update

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:24pm.

WAIT A MINUTE!!

Does this mean you are NOT gonna optimize for mobile use??!!

DAMN!

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