Whiny Cub Fans
Um, correct us if we're wrong, but Sam Zell, bought the Tribune Company, right?
OK, we thought we missed something. And he bought everything that comes along with it, right? Including a certain hapless baseball team that wins the World Series once a century or less?
All right then. So why are so many people making such a big damn deal about selling the naming rights to a ball field? It's his, isn't it? He owns it. He can name it whatever he likes and personally, we're hoping for some sort of hemorrhoid cream, seeing as how everyone's ass must be raw waiting for the Cubs to actually win.
Zell can sell whatever he wants, but he can't make Chicagoans change their way of thinking. The Standard Oil Building will never be the Aon Center to us. Sears hasn't been in the tower for years, maybe a decade, but it's still Sears Tower. Even though Reinsdorf tore down Comiskey Park and built a monstrosity, there are still more people who call it "Comiskey" than call it "the Cell." Think of all the police stations long gone, yet their names exist every day on radio zones across the city.
OK, we thought we missed something. And he bought everything that comes along with it, right? Including a certain hapless baseball team that wins the World Series once a century or less?
All right then. So why are so many people making such a big damn deal about selling the naming rights to a ball field? It's his, isn't it? He owns it. He can name it whatever he likes and personally, we're hoping for some sort of hemorrhoid cream, seeing as how everyone's ass must be raw waiting for the Cubs to actually win.
Zell can sell whatever he wants, but he can't make Chicagoans change their way of thinking. The Standard Oil Building will never be the Aon Center to us. Sears hasn't been in the tower for years, maybe a decade, but it's still Sears Tower. Even though Reinsdorf tore down Comiskey Park and built a monstrosity, there are still more people who call it "Comiskey" than call it "the Cell." Think of all the police stations long gone, yet their names exist every day on radio zones across the city.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
64 Comments:
Why are Sox fans such utter and complete COCKS all the time? The macho, tough guy posturing is so laughable. You all go on and talk about the "sport", I'll ENJOY the spectacle of a Cub's game...gorgeous women, decent food, shitty sight lines, luke warm beer, and the find 'em & F*ck 'em attitude of the entire neighborhood!!! All the homophobes are quick to point out all the gays guys in the area, too bad they completely miss the real talent! I've been to many Sox games...better food, better sight lines. FUGLY women, NO atmosphere. Enough said.
The best part? People are freaking out that it will be named for a corporation.... WRIGLEY FIELD, as in the LARGEST CHEWING GUM COMPANY....please! They practically started the whole corporate naming business! And don't argue that it's named after mr. Wrigley.... if he did not want the wrigley BRAND name, it would be CUBS park..... I don't care what the hell they call it, as long as the $ income goes to a win! Sincerely, a PO'D cubs fan.
I am a Cubs fan but that may be changing soon... not because of the name change of Wrigley, not because we are at a century of futility, but did you see the newest bidders for the Cubs? A BUNCH OF ASSHOLE REVERENDS AND "MINORITY BUSINESSMEN" ... thats right They came into town tonight, claim they have the assets and finances in order, are ready to put down an offer and buy the Cubs. "It's time MLB embraces minority ownership" one asshole reverend said. They are offering less than asking price, claiming that the low paying price would be offset by the opportunity to be the first MLB team with minority owners, playing the race card and looking to/bullying MLBs commissioners office to make sure this goes through. They are saying basically "we have a reasonable offer, we are black, we are here sell us the Cubs OR Y'ALL RACIST!" NEWS FLASH YOU FUCKING RETARDS! EVERY BIDDER OUT THERE HAS THE CHECK IN HAND! THAT ISNT HOW IT WORKS! Maybe at Pulaski and Maypole when you want to buy "something" cash in hand is all you need. But in the real business world I think not! UGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
"Revs" fucking me at work, "revs" fucking my team.... what next??? Anyways, if this happens Im turning my loyalties to the Brewers I decided. Since I still have all of my teeth, use deoderant, and dont live in a double wide and or in my parents basement Im not allowed to be a Sox fan.
by the way, since when do a bunch of reverends have enough money to by a professional fucking team let alone one of the most expensive professional teams out there??? Maybe the IRS outta look into some of this!
i quit going there years ago. watch it all on cable. to much cash for me to plunk down with wife and three kids. i think they should hire drew peterson to kidnap that big nosed greek and slit that goats throat. don't need an foi card for a knife job.
News Flash: As reported on the Score, the Pigley Wiggley Food Chain has purchasd the rights to Wrigley. It will now be known as Pigly Wiggley Wrigley field.
The short answer is, the Sun-Times is putting them up to it because it's fighting for its corporate life.
The Cubs haven't won championship since they've been playing in Wrigley Field. They haven't been the champs since 1908, before the ballpark was built in 1914.
Haven't you Cubs fans figured it out yet?
The curse isn't the goat or the cat.... IT'S WRIGLEY FIELD ITSELF!
I propose this... Build the Cubbies a new ballpark and they'll go to the big dance and walk away as World Champions within their first year or two. I guarantee it!
It's as simple as this, you need to "Wreck Wrigley" if you want to see a team of winners instead of whiners on the North side.
WRECK WRIGLEY!!! A.S.A.P!!!!
SCC Said, "Even though Reinsdorf tore down Comiskey Park and built a monstrosity, there are still more people who call it "Comiskey" than call it "the Cell."
You're wrong. It's now "The Cell". Even from Sox fans and their sons. Afterall...it's been 17 years since Comiskey was torn down. Now it's "The Cell". Ask the youngsters grandpa. They watch tv.
Mr. SouthSide says---
OK SCC, now you've gone and done it. Ever since the Cubs flubbed in the playoffs, led by O-Fer Ramirez, you haven't rankled the spiked hair of the metrosexual north siders. With this post, you have committed the most heinous of sins, messing with Wrigley Field.
As a loyal Sox fan and life-long resident of Canaryville, I like things at Wrigley Field just the way they are, for the following reasons:
With every stupid move the Cubs make, it takes the heat off the Sox
management's stupid moves.
Since North Side guys are much more interested in looking at each other instead of the hot women at Wrigley, the pickings are easy.
Ronnie Woo-Woo is the South Side's ultimate trump card.
Please don't get them any more riled up than they already are. We don't need their guys coming down here trying to find their double fraps.
The new name for the park will be
HEMLICH FIELD . Need I say more .
And they are from the burbs.
THE CUBS & THIER FANS STILL SUCK!!!
I am a life long Cub fan. It really doesn't bother me. The park will be torn down when the new owners take hold anyway. A new park will be built within 5 to 8 years.
Afterall...it's been 17 years since Comiskey was torn down. Now it's "The Cell". Ask the youngsters grandpa. They watch tv.
Maybe we just run with an older crowd. Damn those kids.
Are they gonna change the name of the neighborhood too?
btw. i still call it comiskey not the cell. oh well
maybe mariotti and all the other cub fans could raise the 400 million, buy the naming rights, and keep calling it wrigley for the next 20 years.
a rose by any other name is still a rose.
quit getting caught up in the name and worry instead about how much the cubs are gonna suck this year.
for the record- i was one of the people who wanted wrigley to keep it's name- until the mariotti article hit. what an annoying self righteous fuckin prick that guy is. after his article, i decided i'm on zell's side@
To 3/01/2008 02:45:00A.M.
It is the Tribune that owns the Cubs,not the Sun Times.
The Chicago Cubs. 100 years of futility and counting.
Why do you "retarded Southsiders" think our Northsiders taxes are twice as much as yours??
Sorry...it will always be Comiskey to me. I guess I am old too huh?
The Cell my ass. I hit a lot of Sox games with my kids and I can not recall even once hearing them or their pals calling it anything but Comiskey or Sox park.
DEPENDS brand just bought the naming rights to the park since there are transister radio carying fans in black socks and white gym shoes still going to the park.It will now be called "STOP PEEING ON YOURSELF PARK".....GO SOX!!!!!!!
WRECK WRIGLEY!!! A.S.A.P!!!!
3/01/2008 03:13:00 AM
My sentiments exactly and they should build the new park at the bottom of lake michigan or better yet move them to wisconsin were the can be called the Fudge Packers. Just a few sugestions
IT's still Comiskey there hairgel.
boo whooo u poor cubbie fans. did you see us cry when they changed the name at comiskey? no! we were busy winning a world championship! its amazing how you cub fans actually kiss your mothers with those mouths! and to think i actually thought that was gel in your hair? take it deep!!!!!
This Country is becoming the peoples republic of the United States of Amerika.
I'm watching the debate between Hillary "rotten" Clinton and Barack "hussein" Obama last night on CNBC.
Hillary is bitching about Exxon Mobil making the largest profit in US history and then says essentially "we have to take exxon's profit and invest it in America" (code speak: screw the saver's and investors and give it to the spenders and consumers AKA welfare state)
Then she say's if she is elected she will create 5 million new jobs. (HOW?)
She said the same thing to get elected as senator of NY. She said she would creat 500,000 new jobs for New Yorkers if elected senator. In her 6 years as senator, NY has seen a net loss of 30,000 jobs.
Lying,theiving,bitch! People are so gullible. Its funny how her networth has multiplied 10 fold in the last 10 years.
Keep voting Democ(RAT) sheeple!
Lastly, George Bush isn't even running for re-election, but everytime her or Obama is asked what they'll do as president, instead of stating their solutions they start the same, tired bull shit that's starts something like this.."Well, President Bush blah,blah,blah........................................................................................................President Bush, Blah,blah........................................................Bush Lied!If Al Gore hadn't had the election STOLEN from him by George
BUSH,blah,blah,blah.............................................................................And when I'm elected President I PROMISE to blah,blah,blah!
I'm going to Puke now!Shit I just threw up in my mouth, YUK!
i call it comiskey park, and im 26 years old. does that make me an old timer?
No self respecting Sox fan calls their ballpark by it's fake corporate name.
We still call it Comiskey, or maybe just "Sox Park".
Typical of disappointed Cubs fans, by the way, that they enjoy the beer garden "spectacle" that's Wrigley Field, as opposed to the real baseball atmosphere at "new" Comiskey!
Any word on the bidding war for wrigley by moo'n oink and harrolds?
Again with the race card: I'm a minority I demand you give me the cubs organization not to mention 99% of people attending games are white. I wouldn't demand the soul food restaurant on 51st street- that doesn't make sense either. Lets see if Mr. Zell bends to Liberal Racism.
Man, you sox fans are a forgetful group. Remember when Reinsdorf announced that he was building the new park and tearing down Comiskey? Oh my God, the weeping and gnashing of teeth. Even though Comiskey was falling apart (as is Wrigley) and needed to have skyboxes (and the attendant revenue) to compete. An argument can be made that the decision to build the new park led directly to the 2005 World Series victory. So now some Cub fans are upset about pending changes to the name and the fact that the ballpark will have to be replaced at some point. I go to about 10 Cub games a year and love the inside (field) of the place but everything else about the building sucks. Access, parking, ancient restrooms, crowded concourses, roach and rat infestation (I can only assume) are but a few of the problems. So listen up my fellow Cub fans-whatever they do to make more money to be possibly be spent on players is ok with me. Now getting someone to make good player decisions, thats another story.
All that being said, I have a question for the sox fans in the crowd-why do you give a shit about the Cubs? Watch your team, and don't worry your heads about the Cubs. Because trust me, we do not give a rats ass about the sox. And enough with the "Cub fans are gay" rap. That is really getting old. It is no more true than the old "sox fans are all drunken fighters". There are good looking women at both parks, though I personally give the edge to Wrigley in that regard. Something to do with it being sunny during the day brings out the scantily clad women. Is that a bad thing?
Daley Field,Stoeger Stadium,Abbatte Arena,Greylord Gala Park.
After they went commercial and began selling the club name I stoppe attending professional sporting events. Much cheaper and more fun to hit the minor league circuit. Go Kane County Cougars,Chicago Wolves and Loyola Ramblers.
Part of the reason for the uproar is the prospect of public funds being involved in the whole deal. And with former Governor "Big Skim" Thompson on the case to get public funds, it should get weird before it all ends ... .
Why are Sox fans such utter and complete COCKS all the time? The macho, tough guy posturing is so laughable. You all go on and talk about the "sport", I'll ENJOY the spectacle of a Cub's game...gorgeous women, decent food, shitty sight lines, luke warm beer, and the find 'em & F*ck 'em attitude of the entire neighborhood!!! All the homophobes are quick to point out all the gays guys in the area, too bad they completely miss the real talent! I've been to many Sox games...better food, better sight lines. FUGLY women, NO atmosphere. Enough said.
3/01/2008 12:01:00 AM
you must've never been to a sox game. good food at wrigley? you mean the food you have to go get underneath the ball park and miss the game? oh yeah, that food.
and as far as women go. honestly, i've been at both parks. sox girls are just as good if not better than cub girls (and younger). the atmosphere is fine at the sox games.
tear down wrigley already.
fireworks night, honestly who can beat that?
How do you see tough-guy, all I can remember is two father and son in-bred, mullet headed, druken assholes who when running onto the field to attack an old man ump they stumbled and fell over themselves and then took a grand beating from the players of both teams.
Yes sir, two poster-boys for the tough-guy fan of the year award. Every time I think of that scene I laugh my ass off.
I am offering myself to public coporations so they can rename me for a price. I can see it now, names like the Butterfinger Kid, or Gyros Sandwich or Hostess Cupcake, you get the drift. I want six figures, in cash, small bills in a brown paper bag and you can call me anything you want. Hey how about calling me Wrigley Field, after all that name will be up for grabs shortly.
The Sox are as bad as the Cubs, after all you both had that drunken asshole Harry Caray working for you. So lets not be so quick throwing the names around.
As a loyal Sox fan and life-long resident of Canaryville
3/01/2008 07:23:00 AM
Another F'IN inbred hillrod. Lifelong Viller! That is the biggest hillbilly ghetto going!
How soon you sox fans how reinsdorf strong-armed the stse to have the public (YOU & I) to pay for a stadium due to his threat of moving the team to florida. you same people bitch about the politicians hitting us up by taxing the shit out of us, how do you think U.S. CELLULAR FIELD was built? With our money! I wish he would've moved to florida. they don't support baseball worth a shit. the team would've folded by now.
Can't we all just get along?
No self respecting Sox fan calls their ballpark by it's fake corporate name.
We still call it Comiskey, or maybe just "Sox Park".
Typical of disappointed Cubs fans, by the way, that they enjoy the beer garden "spectacle" that's Wrigley Field, as opposed to the real baseball atmosphere at "new" Comiskey!
3/01/2008 01:55:00 PM
yes asshat the "real" baseball atmosphere, 2007 sox 71wins 91 losses enjoy your 2005 trophy how the stumblebums ever got that one is a mystery of all times.
the sox will be lucky to win 75 games this year with that shitty pitching staff. so stick your new sox park up your ass you southside crack smoking trailer park, bridgeport, mt greenwood trash.
GO CUBS GO
I don't care if you won in 2005 get over it .
Dear Mr. Zell:
Please re-name Wrigley Field as "SEISER FIELD".
After all, Seiser runs it.
Just keep those bitching hot dogs with the frilled onions. Gawd, I love them!
I heard "moo n oink" are ahead in the naming rights with woo woo doing play by play.
I know a name that the Cub fans will love, how about "Rainbow Field" Taste the rainbow fellas
What's the difference between Canaryville and Bridgeport?????????????????????????
In Bridgeport, they take the dishes OUT of the sink, before they piss in it!
As a loyal Sox fan and life-long resident of Canaryville,
only a hillbilly would make a statement like this and actually feel proud about it..
Get over 2005? If the Cubs win it this year, don't you think Cub fans will never stop talking about 2008, even if they don't win again for another 100 years?
Cub fans keep venerating the '69 team that didn't win anything. So who is living in the past?
I suppose the Bears should stop talking about 1985 as well. Yes, it's the past, but it meant a lot to the people who experienced it. So I'll always cherish 2005, and rightly so.
As for the 2008 White Sox? Can't see them going higher than 3rd place, but I'll be at the park, cheering them on and having a good time. That's the bottom line. Beats being at work!
Moo 'n' Oink just agreed to pay 405 million for the naming rights.
It's all over the radio and cable news.
"...and enough of the Cub fans are gay rap....that is just getting old...".
Yup, old gay guys.
"...two mullet-headed drunken father and son assholes attacking an old man..."
I remember last year at Wrigley, Mr. Metrosexual tough guy went to attack a pitcher and was taken down by a five foot tall usher.
As a Cub fan, I could give two shits about the phony uproar over Zell threatening to sell the naming rights. What bothers me and should bother all Illinoisians, is this apparently done deal of selling Wrigley field to the Illinois Sports Authority so the tax payers can pay for the upkeep of the park and line Zell's pockets with more than he could get if he sold the park and the club together.
With the constantly rising taxes, how is this supposed to help the people of Illinois. This authority has only helped Reinsdorf and now Zell.
The ISA and McPier are there to make these fuckers richer. How has owning "The Cell" worked out for the state?
yes asshat the "real" baseball atmosphere, 2007 sox 71wins 91 losses enjoy your 2005 trophy how the stumblebums ever got that one is a mystery of all times.
the sox will be lucky to win 75 games this year with that shitty pitching staff. so stick your new sox park up your ass you southside crack smoking trailer park, bridgeport, mt greenwood trash.
GO CUBS GO
I don't care if you won in 2005 get over it .
3/01/2008 11:23:00 PM
Disclaimer first, I have all this info. due to a Sox/scrubs bet last year.
Since 1968: Sox 20 x's at 500 or better. Cubs 14 x's at 500 or better. Sox 3 x's of 2 winning seasons in a row, 2 x's of 4 or more winning seasons in a row. Cubs 2 x's of 2 winning seasons in a row 1 time of 4 or more winning seasons in a row.
Sox- 5 division champs, 1 league champ and 1 World Series. Cubs- 4 division champs, 0 league champs and 0 World Series.
If you want to go back to 1901 (basing it on that year because that's when the Sox started to play) Sox 62 x's at 500 or better. Cubs 50 x's at 500 of better. Sox 3 World Series. Cubs 2 World Series.
THE FACTS SPEAK FOR ITSELF.
Both teams have not been that good but at least the Sox have not been as bad.
By the way, that it matters much, the Sox were 72-90 last year, not 71-91, yes they did suck, I agree. I hope you are enjoying your eking into the playoff's last year and getting spanked by the D-Backs after all that off-season spending. Yes you do have 7 pitchers this year but all but two are either to old. unproven or just are not that good. Enjoy your 1908 World Series trophy and enjoy a Century of Suck at that run-down, worse place to watch a game, take a piss, get some good food, piece of shit wrigley field.
I don't care that you won in 1908, (damn that is a long time ago and I am also being sarcastic), the Scrubs still and always will suck.
How do you see tough-guy, all I can remember is two father and son in-bred, mullet headed, druken assholes who when running onto the field to attack an old man ump they stumbled and fell over themselves and then took a grand beating from the players of both teams.
Yes sir, two poster-boys for the tough-guy fan of the year award. Every time I think of that scene I laugh my ass off.
3/01/2008 07:33:00 PM
You must have forgot storming the field and attacking someone started at Wrigley Field. Only difference was drunk frat boy attacked Randy Myers..... a Cubs pitcher.
I don't care if you won in 2005 get over it .
3/01/2008 11:23:00 PM
1969 anyone????? Sox fans can't get over winning. Cub's tools can't get over losing. We'll stop talking about '05 when you stop talking about '69.
don't care if you won in 2005 get over it .
3/01/2008 11:23:00 PM
1969 anyone????? Sox fans can't get over winning. Cub's tools can't get over losing. We'll stop talking about '05 when you stop talking about '69.
3/02/2008 03:17:00 PM
whatever sox fans you guys one five more games in your history than the cubs, yeah get over 2005, it won't happen again anytime soon , and the 2005 world series was watched by less than a million people. the cubs on a single GAME TELECAST IN SPRING TRAINING HAVE BIGGER RATINGS WATCHING FELIX PIE WHIFF. NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE SOX
except for some of the inbred trailer park sister banging southside trash who troll this website.
remember the last crosstown classic cubs won 5 southside inbreds won 1 yes the cubs beat sox ass. cubfans are worldwide
soxfans limited to a small southside area.
yes we know the cubs suck we like them anyway.
a park with storied history,
better atmosphere, hotter chicks
nicer neighborhood. you don't hear any stories like babe ruth calling his homerun in the world series? that was at wrigley. you never hear anything about the history of the whitesox before 1983? the cubs are rich in tradition where the sox have none. oh yeah they sold the 1919 world series to some mafia related gamblers go go white sox!
how bout just go go go away!
p.s. we don't talk about the 69 cubs anymore, we talk about the 2003 cubs and whine about them.
i only wish the 2005 cleveland indians had 5 more wins that season because the biggest choke in sports histoy would have been the whitesox blowing the 15 game lead in august and sept that year.
when the lead was under three games
all you sox fans were jumping off the boat like it was the titanic.
boy did i feel good that week.
of course know my life sucks having to listen to you blowhard fairweather sox fans who just hate the cubs.
If you put perfume on a pig its still a pig. Rename Wrigley and it is still the same. Nothing but LOSERS.
Poor Cubs fans. You just can't forgive and forget the 2005 World Series. Maybe in about a hundred years, you'll get your chance to be there, too.
Sorry to have hit such a sensitive nerve, in citing the real baseball atmosphere on the Southside!
WILL SOMEBODY TELL ME WHEN THE WORLD DECIDED THE "AMERICAN LEAGUE" WAS REAL FUCKING BASEBALL?????
I WILL CONCEDE THAT THE U.S. CELLULAR CRACK PIPE AND SYRINGE GIVE AWAYS BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF ANY PROMOTIONS AT WRIGLEY FIELD!
Poor Cubs fans. You just can't forgive and forget the 2005 World Series. Maybe in about a hundred years, you'll get your chance to be there, too.
Sorry to have hit such a sensitive nerve, in citing the real baseball atmosphere on the Southside!
3/02/2008 11:50:00 PM
actually there is more baseball atmosphere at a little league game
than at whitesox crackwhore stadium.
by the way the cubs have been to many World Series , they just haven't won one since 1908, they were in many world series up until their last apperance in 1945.
yes another undereducated sox fan that doesn't know the history of baseball or even his own team.
i bet 90% of sox fans couldn't name half of the players on the current sox team. all sox fans live for is to rip the cubs because that can't argue baseball and have limited knowledge of baseball .
go go go away white sox you suck!!!
lets see, after looking at the numbers, the facts are in the cubs are better than the whitesox all time, the cubs have won 10,091 games and have been to the world series nine times in thier history winning twice.
the white sox have won 8372 wins all time and have been to the world series 5 times, selling away one to gamblers winning 3.
and here is an actual fun fact for all the white sox fans,
THE ORIGINAL WHITESOX NAME WAS USED BY THE NOW CHICAGO CUBS, AFTER DISCOVERING THE TYPE OF HILLBILLIES COMING OUT TO THE PARK , THE ORIGNAL WHITESOX CHANGED THEIR NAME TO THE CHICAGO CUBS, THATS RIGHT THE CUBS WERE THE SOX FIRST,HATED THE NAME AND DUMPED IT. SO EVEN THE WHITESOX NAME WAS A CASTOFF LOSER NAME.
LOOK IT UP IT'S 100 PERCENT TRUE THE CUBS WERE KNOWN AS THE chicago white stockings.
and now you know the rest of the story!
Just like my dad use to say
"the best thing about the southside is the ride back north".
Mr. SouthSide says---
At least we hillbillies speak a form of English. When I go up to the north side to help relieve the stress of the underloved women up there, all I hear is Assyrian, Korean, and some other weird language.
and here is an actual fun fact for all the white sox fans,
THE ORIGINAL WHITESOX NAME WAS USED BY THE NOW CHICAGO CUBS, AFTER DISCOVERING THE TYPE OF HILLBILLIES COMING OUT TO THE PARK , THE ORIGNAL WHITESOX CHANGED THEIR NAME TO THE CHICAGO CUBS, THATS RIGHT THE CUBS WERE THE SOX FIRST,HATED THE NAME AND DUMPED IT. SO EVEN THE WHITESOX NAME WAS A CASTOFF LOSER NAME.
LOOK IT UP IT'S 100 PERCENT TRUE THE CUBS WERE KNOWN AS THE chicago white stockings.
and now you know the rest of the story!
3/03/2008 12:15:00 PM
Now here is an interesting fact for all you cubs fans. The cubs used to be a South Side team. They played at the West Side Grounds located between Polk and Taylor, Wood and Wolcott streets. In fact they have never won a World Series on the North Side... A century of futility.
Tear down Wrigley Field and build section 8 housing.
Poor folks want to enjoy the benefits of yuppie living too.
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