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Talk about beating a dead horse into oblivion. WTF!
Unbelievably pathetic.


Harry Caray's to offer taste of Bartman ball

The Associated Press
Published February 15, 2005, 2:50 PM CST

Blowing the "Bartman ball" to smithereens last year didn't help the Cubs win a World Series. Maybe eating the smithereens will.

Harry Caray's Restaurant has cooked up a new promotional scheme involving what's left of the infamous foul ball that deflected off Cubs fan Steve Bartman during Game 6 of the National League Championship Series in 2003. The Cubs lost a sure out and their cool from the play, subsequently giving up eight runs and the lead as they blew a chance to reach the World Series for the first time since 1945.

A year ago, after buying the ball at auction for $113,824, Harry Caray's had a Hollywood special-effects expert detonate it on live TV.

In the marketing sequel, Harry Caray's said Tuesday it intends to soak the ball's remnants in Budweiser and combine them with other ingredients into a "curse-ending sauce." The sauce will be poured over spaghetti and served to willing Cubs fans next week at its locations in Chicago and Rosemont.

"At the urging of faithful Cubs fans, Harry Caray's will try once again to use the power of the ball to generate positive energy for the Cubs," said Grant DePorter, managing partner of Harry Caray's Restaurant group.

He said the stunt was inspired by two separate fan suggestions a year ago when the restaurant received 20,000 letters from people with ideas on how to destroy the ball.

The sauce will be served for four days ending Feb. 24 when the restaurant stages its annual worldwide toast to Caray, the longtime Cubs broadcaster who died Feb. 18, 1998.

Proceeds will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in honor of ex-Cubs great Ron Santo

maybe if they feed it to jerry hariston jr, his bowels will compel him to hit 50 hr's.

I normally don't get this riled about shite like this, but I had to fire off an email to the restaurant. Here it is:

"I just read about your new Bartman Ball promotion. Talk about beating a dead horse into absolute oblivion. Can you not turn the page? Are you so incredibly deprived of creativity that you have to resort to this? I don't care if it's for charity or not, this is the dumbest promotion I've seen since - well - never.
It IS the dumbest, most unimaginative promotion I've ever seen.
Please, think about hiring someone younger than 60 to think of your next brilliant promo. This idea may have sounded HILARIOUS to a bunch of old, wine-sipping, brie-nibbling, out-of-touch socialites at a cocktail party, but to the majority of us Chicagoans/Cubs fans... it's old, it's tired, it's unoriginal, it's embarrassing, it's not clever, it's confounding, it's tailor-made for unending ridicule and simply put - it's just plain asinine.
It's 2005. Come join the rest of us. JESUS!"

what will save baseball in chicago?


can we get Steve Dahl to do a GOTH DEMOLITION this time ?


THX,
Jason D

the baseball will still be shatted out their bodies, thus the baseball will still exist.

The lunacy continues:


Recipe for disaster? Health dept. has its say

David Haugh
Published February 18, 2005

In cooking up a recipe for sauce flavored with the blown-up Steve Bartman baseball, Harry Caray's restaurant has taken every measure to stay out of hot water with the city's department of public health. The two sides stayed in constant communication Thursday as the restaurant's team of experts considered ways to incorporate remnants of the infamous ball in conjunction with health-code standards. Chicago municipal code 4-8-010 states that food cannot be served if it "consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for human consumption." A baseball blown up a year ago fits in that category, according to Tim Hadac, spokesman for the health department. But Grant DePorter, managing partner of Harry Caray's, has enlisted a team of dietitians and chemists to maximize flavor and minimize health risks. The ball itself will not be part of the sauce. "They're going to capture the steam that rises off the ball and put it into the sauce," Hadac said. "And if they do that, it will not violate any public health regulations."