When Lou Piniella came on as Cubs manager starting in the 2007 season, he coined the term "Cubbie Occurance" This right here may very well be EXACTLY what he meant by such a phrase. On April 29, 1983, the Chicago Cubs suffered a particularly crushing home loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, being surpassed by the Dodgers at home by only one run. This proved particularly upsetting to the close to 3,000 fans in attendance at the game, who immediately started heckling the Cubs players as they walked off. After the loss, Elia gave a postgame interview to 4 reporters. One of those reporters(who just so happened to be from WLS) happened to have a mic turned on, which turned out to be a very good thing, as the following rant was captured for posterity:
"I'll tell you one fuckin' thing - I hope we get fuckin' hotter than shit just to stuff it up them three thousand fuckin' people that show up every fuckin' day. Because if they're the real Chicago fuckin' fans, they can kiss my fuckin' ass, right Downtown, and print it! They're really, really behind you around here. My fuckin' ass! What...what the fuck am I supposed to do? Go out there and get destroyed,and be quiet about it? For the fuckin' nickel/dime people that show up? The motherfuckers don't even work! That's why they're out at the fuckin' game! They ought to get a fuckin' job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a fuckin' living. Eighty-five percent of the fuckin' world is working. The other fifteen come out here. A fuckin' playground for the cocksuckers. Rip them motherfuckers! Rip those country cocksuckers, like the fuckin' players! We've got guys bustin' their fuckin' asses and those fuckin' people boo...and that's the Cubs? My fuckin' ass! They talk about the great fuckin' support that the players get around here, I haven't seen it this fuckin' year!"
Needless to say, the tirade did not do wonders for the career of Elia, although he did manage to hold onto his job for another 4 months before finally getting fired at the end of August. And at the end of the season, when the team thudded to a 71-91 record, nobody could have ever guessed at what the Cubs were getting ready to do that next season. The team would go on to win 90+ games in 1984 and become a household team name up till this day. But that's all another story...
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