On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Chase, Peter <pchase@cubs.com> wrote:

Phil,

Thank you for your e-mail.  The Cubs found the t-shirts to be offensive and confronted the issue directly.  You'll be happy to know that as of this afternoon, all sales of the shirt were put to a stop.

Thanks again for your concerns and for taking the time to write.

Peter Chase

Outfuckingstanding. Great job Cubs and great job lemon20pie bringing this to our attention.

I’m glad we could get this resolved, awesome team effort guys.

what happened with the formatting there. Try again:

a headband that says “Horry Cow” that I find offensive as well.

I am proud to be apart of this community. It is good to know we are not only loyal Cubs fans, but stand-up persons. I’m glad to see this was stopped.

Dan

Congrats BCB on a job well done!

Thanks you folks for your proactive actions on this.
It’s quite a bummer stuff in anyway…

To be a Cubs fan and part of the BCB and SB Nation community. Well done gentlemen.

..Great efforts towards solving an embarrassing and offensive issue.

Perfect example of how to make a difference.

Very proud to be part of BCB tonight.

About this situation as well, I’m sure he’ll be happy to know that these shirts will no longer be sold.

for everyone who stood up and voiced their opposition.

and would like to also commend the BCB nation and the Cubs for doing the right thing and putting a stop to this foolishness.

It’s unfortunate that the rush to make a buck brings out the knuckleheaded stuff like these “quick strike” t-shirts- ie. run them off, make as much as you can and then hope no one complains.

Until we consumers simply stop buying this kind of junk, unfortunately there’s always going to be someone who wants to turn a dollar.

Hopefully the Cubs and his teammates have let Kosuke know that the VAST majority of Cubs fans find this kind of thing vulgar and hurtful.

Thanks for the post Al.

well done by all. Thanks so much.

im glad to hear that the Cubs took care of that.

but i hope the cubs organization always agrees with us re: what they find to be “offensive.”

...I would have done more than just express my outrage in a fanpost. In any case, thank you to all who contacted the Cubs directly. And thank you to the organization itself for dealing with this matter so swiftly and decisively. I am very, very pleased!

who had April 18th in the pool?

Congratulations to all those who confronted this crap and for bringing it to the Cubs’s attention. The world needs people of courage like yourselves.

who worked to have this stuff end. Hopefully it’s over and done w/ now.

but when i was at the stadium today, it was ALL OVER. I saw multiple people wearing them, and more than a few street walkers hawking them. I think they realized what was going on and were trying to move the merchandise as fast as possible. So there will still be a few of these items being worn.

not living in Chicago, “on the streets” so to speak, don’t get to see it first hand, Just yanks my chain when idiots do garbage like this only for the buck.
Dome is a Cub, a player, a human being, not a novelty.
Good job all.

For showing that the actions of a few do not repesent all of us. I’m glad that a few proactive individuals stood up to this and took action. Those folks are real Cub fans.

Thanks Al for updating us on the developements of this topic and for giving us the platform to voice our frustrations on such topics as this. This is just another reason why BCB is the best Cubs blog out there and the best collection of true Cub fans out there. I saw this topic posted on other boards and for the most part, the majority opinion was “who cares” or “That’s actually funny” et cetera et cetera et cetera and so forth.

I actually felt much better about this topic after reading all the posts in that fanpost and that not everyone or “1 out of 10” didn’t care and that most were as angered about this as I was and that many took actions against this insensitive display of greed.

The best part too me about all this, is that Mr. Fukudome will undoubtedbly hear about us Cub fans who came to his support and showed are displeasure about it. We got your back DOme!!!!!!

Thanks again Al.

...to everybody involved, from lemon20pie for first bringing it up, to Gary Varsho for suggesting the emails, and to the Cubs for taking action.

Enough said. That was unacceptable

.....how do we get rid of the Kamikaze Headbands? I find that even more offensive than the tshirt.

WOW! SunTimes saves the day! How bout the other venues on the net – BCB for example – that also mobilized to make this happen. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/903754,cubshirt041808.article

Replace the racist one with “Marty Brennaman Is A Bitter And Jealous Old Woman”.