September 25, 2007
What if He Becomes a Sox Fan?
There are a lot of us who can be accused of taking our team spirit a bit too far. Some of us may spend a few paychecks to see our team play in the Super Bowl. Or maybe we name our dog after our favorite athlete.
Then there those like Paul and Teri Fields of Michigan City, Ind., who crossed a line with their level of obsession with a certain Chicago baseball. When choosing a name for their newborn son, they wanted something that would signify their love for the Cubs. His name? Wrigley Fields, of course.
The poor kid, born September 12, can now expect a lifetime of torment and ridicule for his stadiumesque name. While Dad suspects he may chose to go by his middle name, Alexander, down the road, Mom seems pretty insistent that he go by Wrigley.
Chicagoist is really hoping that the kid grows up to be a Sox fan just to spite his idiot parents. There are so many perfectly nice names to choose from ... say, Joshua, for instance.
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When I told my friend Fat Johnny (who is a Sox fan) about this yesterday, this is the story he related:
"I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a Cubs fan, and she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields."
When I told my friend Fat Johnny (who is a Sox fan) about this yesterday, this is the story he related:
"I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a Cubs fan, and she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields."
When I told my friend Fat Johnny (who is a Sox fan) about this yesterday, this is the story he related:
"I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a Cubs fan, and she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields."
When I told my friend Fat Johnny (who is a Sox fan) about this yesterday, this is the story he related:
I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a Cubs fan, and she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields.
When I told my friend Fat Johnny (who is a Sox fan) about this yesterday, this is the story he related:
I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a Cubs fan, and she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields.
Thanks for the info Matt.
Hey Matt, you don't know a guy named Fat Johnny do you?
A haiku I made up especially for this occasion!
Dumb down CUB fans
War, strike, Iran,no concern
values rooted in stupidity
Cubbies win again
Hot chicks dig B-Tuck at Murph's
Me and Cubbies score!
Brad "B-Tuck" Tucker
Sounds like Benjy is having a little postseason envy... don't worry, your Sox can work on their golf swings and start making sure their 401(k)s are funded next week.
You and Jay Marriotti should get together next week in your (or his) moms basement and swap White Sox trading cards while you can regal each other with your profound "journalism".
Normally I'd just ignore your flame-bait, but I feel like you need someone to hear you today. Your welcome
yes, world events are dire;
but baseball is a sweet salve
for wounds of the day.
OK, so the reason for the multi-post is that I kept getting "internal server errors" when posting my comment. I thought maybe it was the quotation marks, so I left them off, and then it seemed to work.
Of course, I come back now and see that all of the posts went through. Yay.
I have a friend who's brother and sister-in-law had a baby girl last Friday and named her Addison Grace. SUPPOSEDLY they just really like the name and it has nothing to do with the Cubs (or Grey's Anatomy), but my friend's brother said that if the Cubs win the WS it will definitely have everything to do with it.
"who crossed a line with their level of obsession with a certain Chicago baseball."
I think you mean "baseball team" not "baseball".
Bush League
Also the "addison and clark" story is an urban legend. I mean, yes it could happen, but I doubt it was "your friend."
Actually, it wasn't my friend - it was my friend's friend. And no, it's not an urban legend. There ARE such people in this city :)
Then there's the family who named their first four kids after the streets surrounding Wrigley.
What did they name their fifth and final child? What else? Ivy.
Not to mention that you read the story wrong. His children are NOT named "Addison and Clark".
Only one is named "Addison".
Indiana "parents"
Name baby “wriggle field”
American family values
yeah, i have a friend who named all 17 of their children "ron santo" just cause they love the cubs so much. Isn't that crazy! I'm totally not making this story up or anything like that.
James, don't you know that it's an "urban legend"? Listen to the all-knowing Guest 14!
maybe you could post your story 15 more times and i'll believe you.
I hope the Cubs change the park to Starbucks Field....then the Indiana parents will look like even BIGGER idiots! ;-)
Guest 21 - I already explained the multi-posting. Go back to feeling superior behind your anonymity.
Poor kid is destined to change his name and become a Sox fan.
Wrigley would be OK for a middle name but a first name just seems cruel. how about Clark Wrigley Fields? Or Ryne Wrigley Fields? I know people who have named their dogs Wrigley but not a kid. That being said, I also think it's pretty bad ass. If the Cubs actually do something meaningful this year, the name will be even better.
As a registered user I think your Fat Johnny story is a load of crap. Something you would tell someone at a dinner only to find out that five other people have the same exact story.
The only thing worse than bad haikus are bad haikus that aren't even haikus.
You don't believe I have a friend named Fat Johnny? Or that he emailed that story to me? I never said it happened to someone I know. I am just passing along the email I received from a good friend of mine who would have no reason to make this up. But honestly, I don't care if you believe it or not *shrug*
My point was, someone said that naming a child "Addision" was an urban legend...despite the fact that there is documented proof that it's been done. No, the documented proof was not about my friend's friend - but that's not the point.
What about my friend whose son's middle name is Shea? Is that made up too? Or are you only willing to believe that Cubs fans would be so ridiculous as to name their children after their favorite team?
Ryan: you remember my friend Brian that flew to chicago for the mets game
Matt: yup
Ryan: his second son is named Oliver Shea K******
Matt: I wonder if there are any mets fans with the last name "Stadium"
Ryan: the deal was that his wife got to pick the next one's name. it was just a girl and she named it after a character in Les Mis
Ryan: his sister is going to be named Strawberry
I'm not trying to "prove" anything - I'm trying to actually post some more amusing anecdotes about sports names. *shrug*
The new guest two
sounds like bitter old man
offers no haiku
"No, the documented proof was not about my friend's friend - but that's not the point."
That's entirely the point. You said that your friend's friend named their kid addison and now you take it back. I mean, why lie. Just say that you read a story about it and be done with it - dont' personalize the story to make it more intersting.
It's a pet peeve of mine. Consider yourself called out on it.
A pet is one thing. After the White Sox won the World Series, I got my fiance to agree that if we ever get a dog we can name it Ozzie.
First, five syllables
And then seven for this line
Back to five again
No, bud, my story is from an email I got yesterday from my friend. I am not taking it back - I'm saying that someone said NOBODY did it, while there was proof to the contrary.
And the whole point of the story was not that someone else named their kid "Addison", but the bit about not having to name them "35th".
Delivered-To: matt.stratton@********.com
Received: by 10.114.125.13 with SMTP id x13cs595601wac;Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:46:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Jeff R*****"
Cc: "Doug *********" ,
"Matt Stratton"
Subject: Re: Wrigley Fields
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.4 CCH5 September 12, 2005
From: john.t.******@********.com
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:46:09 -0500
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
I have a friend who named his daughter Addison. He wanted to name his son
Clark, but his wife vetoed. His wife is just lucky he's a cubs fan, and
she didn't have to name her girl 35th or Shields .
John T. S****
you're insane
And jesus christ, Matt
Give it a rest already
Please take a breather
Why am I insane? Actually, I'm insane for trying to explain to you that a) I didn't lie, and b) there's no point to it anyway.
*sigh*
I suppose yes, I am insane for trying to convince you of anything. The only reason I even included the "my friend..." was because I wanted to post FJ's email to me verbatim. The point of the post was the Sox Park joke. But please, continue to think I made it all up so you'd think I was cool because a friend of a friend had a baby named "Addison".
A screenwriter named a character Addison De Witt (All About Eve). I can verify that. I have the video.
My best friend Kaitlyn named her dogs Addison and Meredith from Grey's Anatomy, the BEST SHOW EVER!
lol @ Matt Stratton
The BEST SHOW EVER was Homicide: Life on the Streets.
my boyfriend was named after the dallas cowboys. luckily, his name is dallas and not troy.
44 - Your boyfriend was named after a city not a football team.
I know a guy who named his son kal-el. I swear to god.
You know Nicholas Cage, Matty?!!!
lucky his given name wasn't "cowboy" rachelle
This is the most asinine comment thread on Chicagoist in a long time.
And that's saying something.
with faulty haiku,
and back and forth arguments;
so hilarious.
BATTLE Fields! FTW!
Rachelle, I'm not a wagering Spook, but I'd bet that your boyfriend is either from real redneck stock or a third or second generation immigrant striving to reach the American Dream by being more American than American.
I wish I could put this in Haiku form
Spook, I just learned something cool on the History Channel. Redneck used to be a compliment--it refers to a red bandanna that striking miners wore when they marched to do battle with the Baldwin-Felts gun thugs on Blair Mountain in West Virginia.
Funny how things change,today those same rednecks are still working in unsafe mines,
except now they respect authority and vote republicans
Not so sure about that. Most of them are still union and you can bet with the recent cave-ins, loss of life, and unearthing of repeated safety violations, the miners won't be so respectful.
Nope that not how America works, ferdy. Hate to pull of those liberal rose colored glasses, but rank and file mine, auto and steel union workers still in mass voted for Reagan, the First Bush and this fool twice, with only a break to vote for fellow southerner Clinton. It’s not about economic issues for them, just “Guns”, “God”, “Gays”- against, “Affirmative action”-against.
like the miner they pulled out the mine in Virginia. The first person the thanked was God, as if God decided to kill all 13 of his buddies but spare him. And then he thanked the Republican Governor and the mine owner for pledging to take care of his medical bills, even though republicans have made mines more dangerous as they have ever been in the last 50 years.
Middle class and poor white males never vote their class issues. It’s all about pretending that if they vote for the rich elite, they might one day get there, suckers
Kfunk, are you serious?
Why should we have post-season envy?
Who won the World Series two years ago?
If anyone should be jealous it should be Cubs fans, though the Cubs may get into the playoffs (in the dump of a division that is the NL Central) there's no way in hell they're winning the whole thing.
A boyfriend, huh? Well *that* explains where Rachelle was all summer.