It’s a good time to be a Cubs fan again. The team is in first place for the first time in a while. We have an exciting team, headlined by Pete Crow Armstrong becoming must see TV. The stands at Wrigley as usual, but it is actually exciting since they are playing so well.
The Cubs have been drama free. The biggest “controversy” was probably last week when influencer and podcaster Alex Cooper butchered the 7th inning stretch in a fashion that reminded me of Mike Ditka.
The difference is that this seemed to be a bit as her friends and her seemed to be enjoying how bad it was. I shamefully read to much about this and how much it pissed off people who were there or watched on TV. One comment I saw suggested (jokingly I hope) that she should be sued for doing that. Someone replied asking, “Can you do that?”
For those who don’t know Alex Cooper, she is incredibly successful at a young age. She’s twice sold her “Call Her Daddy” show for a sum reportedly around $180 million combined. I admire the hustle and respect the feminism, the fact that she’s a self made entrepreneur and from what I’ve seen, she talks directly, honestly and in plain English. That is something we strive to do when people contact us looking for a lawyer referral or legal guidance.
Does her terrible performance bother me? No. Who cares? It wasn’t meant for me. I’ve heard her show and it’s not for me either, but guess what? 53 year old men are not the target audience. I have Sirius in the car and she has a music channel there too. The music choices are good, her dialogue is again not for me. So why I am I mentioning this?
If I hear her on Sirius and don’t like it, I can turn the channel. If you watched the game on Marquee and she offended you, you can turn the channel. If you were there in person, it was over in a minute and your life went on.
So no, you can not sue her or the Cubs for this. Nobody was harmed by this performance. There are no damages suffered. It was bad, but it was also PG so no kids were harmed. I assume the goal was to get people to talk about her. It worked. She knows how to get people talking obviously. Would this poorly read blog be writing about her if the performance was normal? No.Would ESPN have tweeted about her if she played it straight? No.
She is clearly great at marketing herself. The people at Wrigley who already loved her will continue to do so. The ones that had no idea who she is, many will check her out as a result of this.
There is no lawsuit and it seems to be that she is playing chess while everyone mad is playing checkers.
In general, you can not sue somebody for being annoying. And this isn’t even the worse thing I saw this week. I saw a video of an entitled lawyer pushing her way past other passengers trying to get off a plane and then talking trash to all of them. This is life in 2025. People are brasher than ever and doing things for content. And unless they actually harm someone, there is no legal action to take.
