"Soldier Field is where the Wrigley Cubs play baseball" (1 Viewer)

[spreagle]

Every time my kid does something smart or amazing that I want to brag about, I can't help but think of this quote of his and it stops me dead in my tracks. Should I get over it or is there just no hope for him?

 

[NCCommish]

That seems like a silly reason not to brag on your kid.

 

[Rove!]

I expected this to be something an esteemed political leader had said...

 

[cstu]

I expected this to be something an esteemed political leader had said...

Be proud, your kid is already up there with America's political leaders.

 

[Tom Servo]

I expected this to be something an esteemed political leader had said...

 

[lod01]

I expected this to be something an esteemed political leader had said...

Since it usually is, it looks like his kid's future is mapped out.

 

[AAABatteries]

Maybe Wrigley's twins are going to be featured playing ball before a Bears game. Maybe he's a psychic!

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Isn't your kid fifteen?

 

[Two Deep]

If he is 6 and under I'd give him a C-

 

[spreagle]

He mixes things up occasionally, like dyslexia but not quite. Like all parts of his brain are turned on at the same time but since he has only one mouth it sometimes combines into something funny. My favorite is this word he coined ... difflicated ... difficult and complicated at the same time ... I use it all the time now if I'm feeling lazy and don't want to do something. Like "I'd like to replace that burnt out floodlight honey but because of the snow and ice on the bushes it's just too difflicated to do right now".

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

"Soldier Field is where the Wrigley Cubs play baseball"

From a child.

Vs.

But when I moved to Chicago, I was living close to what was then Cominskey Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love."

From an adult living in Chicago.

Now, which is worse?

Full:

Just before he threw out the ceremonial first pitch Monday at the Nationals-Phillies game in Washington, President Barack Obama slipped on a broken-in White Sox cap to go with his Nationals jacket.

"I'm a South-side kid and I've got to make sure that (White Sox chairman) Jerry Reinsdorf doesn't get too angry with me," Obama said afterward on the air with Nationals broadcasters Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble.

The president has never held in words of affection for the White Sox. So it seemed natural when Dibble asked Obama to name one of his favorite White Sox players growing up.

"You know, uh, I thought that, uh, you know, the truth is that a lot of the Cubs I liked, too, but I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago," Obama said. "I was growing up in Hawaii and so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan. But when I moved to Chicago, I was living close to what was then Cominskey Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love."

Yes, he said Cominskey Park, similar to the "Cominskey Field" he praised over the summer during an interview with MLB Network's Bob Costas.

During the MLB Network interview, Costas repeated "the Old Comiskey Park" back to him a few moments later. Carpenter and Dibble just let the president go, and he took a mild shot at Cubs fans.

"And the nice thing about the Sox is it's real blue-collar baseball," Obama said. "We always tease about the Cubs, they, you know, they're up at Wrigley sipping wine …"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/04/president-obama-praises-cominskey-park/1

 

[Wrigley]

Giggle

 

[Ignoramus]

"Soldier Field is where the Wrigley Cubs play baseball"

From a child.

Vs.

But when I moved to Chicago, I was living close to what was then Cominskey Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love."

From an adult living in Chicago.

Now, which is worse?

Full:

Just before he threw out the ceremonial first pitch Monday at the Nationals-Phillies game in Washington, President Barack Obama slipped on a broken-in White Sox cap to go with his Nationals jacket.

"I'm a South-side kid and I've got to make sure that (White Sox chairman) Jerry Reinsdorf doesn't get too angry with me," Obama said afterward on the air with Nationals broadcasters Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble.

The president has never held in words of affection for the White Sox. So it seemed natural when Dibble asked Obama to name one of his favorite White Sox players growing up.

"You know, uh, I thought that, uh, you know, the truth is that a lot of the Cubs I liked, too, but I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago," Obama said. "I was growing up in Hawaii and so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan. But when I moved to Chicago, I was living close to what was then Cominskey Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love."

Yes, he said Cominskey Park, similar to the "Cominskey Field" he praised over the summer during an interview with MLB Network's Bob Costas.

During the MLB Network interview, Costas repeated "the Old Comiskey Park" back to him a few moments later. Carpenter and Dibble just let the president go, and he took a mild shot at Cubs fans.

"And the nice thing about the Sox is it's real blue-collar baseball," Obama said. "We always tease about the Cubs, they, you know, they're up at Wrigley sipping wine "

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/04/president-obama-praises-cominskey-park/1

I think we all know which is worse. Plus I betcha spreagle's kid is an American citizen, too.