One final update

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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Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:49pm
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Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:54pm

Screw that...

But so long Chad.

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:55pm

Hope we didn't distress ya, Joe.  :)

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:56pm

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

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

~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. 

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

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

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:40pm

Awwwwww....

 

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

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:54pm

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.)

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:03pm

you're still an ass. :)

 

 

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

Takes one to know one!

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:05pm

Manny agrees...

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:07pm

So does Heinie Massman

Submitted by 10man
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:56pm

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

Submitted by big_lowitzki
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 10:06pm

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

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 10:22pm

AZ Phil doesn't have time for our tomfoolery...

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:56pm

...so no jism?

Submitted by jacos
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:57pm

ha

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

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

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:00pm

Rob will be posting embedded videos of him dancing and singing Karaoke to "Let's Go Crazy", then asking for donations.

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

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

Submitted by billybucks
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:01pm

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.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:02pm

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

 

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:06pm

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

Submitted by Ryno
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:08pm

Well that was fun.

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

Distraction.

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:15pm

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

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:16pm

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

 

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:22pm

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

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:25pm

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?"

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:26pm

100% certain Chad was playing along...he's not a fan of the BCB.

Submitted by Chad
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:32pm

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.

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:35pm

Heh.  Nicely played, Chad!

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:37pm

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

Submitted by Chad
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:39pm

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

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:41pm

Too convoluted for me.

Submitted by Mister Whipple
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:29pm

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.

Submitted by billybucks
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:23pm

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.

Submitted by Hrothgar
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:24pm

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

Submitted by jacos
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:33pm

You guys are brutal.

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

Submitted by Chad
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:33pm

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

Submitted by 433
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:42pm

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

Submitted by Mister Whipple
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:31pm

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."

Submitted by Chad
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:37pm

Put hand in pants, shook about.

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:51pm

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?

Submitted by mannytrillo
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:53pm

Shocking!!! Shocking I tell ya!!

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:59pm

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

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

God, I feel bad for Joe.  We owe him a drink.

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:09pm

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?

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:12pm

Ok good.  Last thing I want is for fellow pacifists to put me on a hit-list....  how embarassing!

Submitted by The Joe
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:24pm

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.

Submitted by Vegas Brian
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:55pm

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?

Submitted by Cubster
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 3:59pm

I can't imagine Motorola is going to like it's new sponsorship to begin like this.
============
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...

Submitted by Andrew
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:17pm

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.

Submitted by Jace
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:22pm

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!

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:36pm

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

 

 

Submitted by Mister Whipple
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:32pm

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

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

Just be thankful Mamma didn't teach you to whoopsiedaisy

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:38pm

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. :)

 

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:44pm

Bah.  For all you know they have been trying to poach me.  Where's my raise?

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:51pm

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

 

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:52pm

sweeeeeeeeeet

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:55pm

Do the math...

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:03pm

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww cripes.

Submitted by nohit
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:48pm

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

Submitted by Rob G.
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:45pm

I'll reset the site tonight btw...to reveal our actual new sponsor, Sam Zell!!!!

Submitted by carlosrubi
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:51pm

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

Submitted by Jace
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:16pm

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!".

Submitted by Transmission
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:37pm

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.

 

 

Submitted by Jace
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:18pm

You ass, Carlos! You got me!

Submitted by gobuckeyes
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:28pm

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...

Submitted by Indiana JJ
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:14pm

Dammit Carlos. You suck.

Submitted by The E-Man
on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:24pm

WAIT A MINUTE!!

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

DAMN!

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