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Cubs Game And A Gig Tour: New York

BCB's Danny Rockett continues following the Cubs and playing comedy music.

When Citi Field was being completed during the horrible stock market crash of 2008, many New Yorkers snickered when the naming rights were announced. Instead of calling the stadium "Citi Field", fans preferred calling it "Debits Field," a pun on Ebbets Field, the old Brooklyn Dodgers ballpark. The irony was inherent that a taxpayer bailed out bank would use taxpayer money to pay for a taxpayer-subsidized stadium. We all had a good laugh over it. Then the news hit about Bernie Madoff ripping off the Mets' owner Fred Wilpon for hundreds of millions of dollars.