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OneLegUpAlex Takes You Inside Wrigley Field as Cubs Celebrate 150 Years on 8-29-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, here are the sights and sounds from
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  Speaker 1: Wrigley Field a week ago today as captured for you
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  Speaker 1: right here at One Look Up Alex Media. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the 150th anniversary celebration. And then, of course, the famous,
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  Speaker 1: let me hear you, seventh inning stretch as conducted by
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  Speaker 1: members of the Team 150 Cubs all-time team. Take me
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  Speaker 1: out to the ball game. Members of the iconic Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs 150th anniversary team. On behalf of everybody up here
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  Speaker 2: in this suite, all my guys, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for everything you gave us over the years. We appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you sitting together.
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  Speaker 1: You ready? A one, a two, a three.
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  Speaker 2: Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out to
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. I need some peanuts and cracker jacks. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care if I ever get back home. It's group, group, group,
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  Speaker 2: rolling party. And maybe the wind is a shame. But
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  Speaker 2: it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball.
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  Speaker 1: Now, up until this point, the Cubs' Pete Crow Armstrong
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  Speaker 1: had two home runs, and he had never had a
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  Speaker 1: third home run in a day. So he never had
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  Speaker 1: a three-run home run game until this swing of the bat,
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  Speaker 1: which I did get, both on video and for the
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  Speaker 1: audio fans. And as fans chanted MVP, I'm right along
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  Speaker 1: with them. MVPCA, as my buddy Ryan coined it. And
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  Speaker 1: he was well on his way to an MVP season.
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  Speaker 1: And this is how the Cubs celebrate a win. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I was there 15 years ago, they did lose
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  Speaker 1: against the Yanks. So I never got to hear them
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  Speaker 1: celebrate a win until last Saturday, August 29th. Now I've
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  Speaker 1: got to play this interview with Scott, who's been around
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  Speaker 1: the ballpark at Wrigley since the age of six years old,
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  Speaker 1: talking to me about what it's like to watch Team
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  Speaker 1: 150 be honored a week ago Saturday at Wrigley. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: here at.
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  Speaker 2: Wrigley Field with Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, you've been coming to this ballpark since you were, what,
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  Speaker 1: five or six years old? Two years old, yep. And
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  Speaker 1: today's your birthday. Yep. What's it like to be here
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  Speaker 1: watching a.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred years of coming baseball be celebrated today?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, what is it? What's it like watching this
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  Speaker 1: celebration today? It's amazing. Seeing all the players here is great.
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  Speaker 1: All the old players. Where would you like to sit
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  Speaker 1: when you're here? What do I like? It's the bleachers, baby.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best, the bleachers.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the guys that were out there today, which
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  Speaker 1: player resonated with you the most growing up? Rizzo. Yeah. Rizzo.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: As a Yankee fan, I admire him. Yeah. I was
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  Speaker 1: pissed when he went to the Yankees. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: a great story. I got to thank him for winning
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  Speaker 1: the World Series back in 24. That's awesome. All right.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great guy. What are your thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs this year? I mean, they got to keep winning.
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  Speaker 1: We need a pitching staff. We don't got no relievers.
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  Speaker 1: We need a nice, we need to do something. And
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  Speaker 1: since he's six years old, so dad, mom, who brought
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  Speaker 1: him here?
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  Speaker 2: My mom.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, it was my uncle. My first game was a
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  Speaker 1: Yank Mets game, New York Mets game. It was 22
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  Speaker 1: in the evening. I was six years old. The game
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  Speaker 1: was like 1130 at night and I was still up.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I loved it. I was so
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  Speaker 1: proud of it. Do you like the monitoring? You know,
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  Speaker 1: all the modifications they've done to the stadium? It's all right.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for the people. Yeah. It's really nice. All right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today. You know, it's interesting. Like Scott,
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  Speaker 1: my first Cub game was with my dad. And that
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  Speaker 1: was when I was six months old or so, Mets Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, I, uh, won't ever forget
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  Speaker 1: the times we went to see the Mets and the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs play each other at Shea or Citi Field. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget the impact the Cubs have had on
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  Speaker 1: my life because my dad's love of the Cubs. And
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  Speaker 1: to go around a week ago at Wrigley Field and
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  Speaker 1: talk about how my dad took me out to Wrigley
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  Speaker 1: when I was five years old to meet Harry Carey.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we were, when I was about 19
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  Speaker 1: years old in 2011 and, uh, we hadn't gone in
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  Speaker 1: those times after that. So to go back in honor
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  Speaker 1: of my dad and I, in honor of his love
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  Speaker 1: of the team. And of course I played you the,
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  Speaker 1: I've read you the letter that the Cubs wrote to
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  Speaker 1: my dad. I mean, it's just, it's special. It's special
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  Speaker 1: to have the Cubs as part of our family. And
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  Speaker 1: to hear all I heard last week when I was
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  Speaker 1: at Wrigley was my dad say, well, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up a Cub fan or I was a Cub
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  Speaker 1: fan or, you know, I started rooting for the Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: And they tell me stories how he was at Wrigley
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  Speaker 1: Field at the Bleachers. And so this trip was not
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  Speaker 1: only fun to reminisce about 150 years of Cubs baseball,
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  Speaker 1: many of whom I've gotten to meet. I got Ernie
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  Speaker 1: Banks' signature many years ago. I met Rizzo a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. I've known Alfonso Soriano for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, Sammy Sosa we met in New York
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  Speaker 1: City at St. Patrick's Cathedral. So yes, I have gotten
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  Speaker 1: to know some of the Cubs lore. Over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And just to be there for that moment was emotional.
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  Speaker 1: It really was. And it was what I like to
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  Speaker 1: call Alex Bueller's day off. Spend at the friendly confines
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  Speaker 1: watching PCA put together an MVPCA kind of year. And
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  Speaker 1: you gotta love it. And the Cubs winning today against
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  Speaker 1: the Marlins winning that series. Maybe getting back on track
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  Speaker 1: here after losing the Reds and Brewers. We'll have to see.
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  Speaker 1: But personally, it was a cathartic experience. It was a
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  Speaker 1: fun experience. And proved to myself, I can travel on
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  Speaker 1: my own, and I'm excited to do more of that
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  Speaker 1: over the next years. I mean, my goodness, where did
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  Speaker 1: we go this year, right? Cooperstown. Philly. Now Chicago. And
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  Speaker 1: many more things to do. And of course, last year
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  Speaker 1: in Boston College. Many more things to do as the
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  Speaker 1: years progress, as we go to the drive to the 35.
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  Speaker 1: We're literally a month and a few weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: 35 years old. But that's my audio report from Wrigley,
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  Speaker 1: from the Friendly Confines. And we'll get you more content
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  Speaker 1: right here at One Look Up Alex Media. And thank you, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: for making me somewhat of a Cub fan. My Yanks
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  Speaker 1: are number one, but the Cubs definitely rank up there.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure.