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Pearl Jam and the best semi-official music bands of baseball

Jonathan DanielFULL DISCLOSURE: Your humble author has attended three of five Pearl Jam shows at Wrigley Field and wept openly at four of them. This generally occurs when Eddie Vedder performs “All the Way,” the monolithically earnest acoustic sea chantey he wrote in 2016 when the Cubs won their first World Series since 1774, the year that they validated all our hopes, the year that I got to call my 93-year-old grandmother and tell her the Cubs won it all, the year that FAITH IN THE UNIVERSE WAS RESTORED for about 20 minutes until the election.
Anyway, “All the Way” is the culmination of years of Cubs fanship from the north-side native Vedder, who is seen on the 2016 concert film “Let’s Play Two” wandering outside his Wrigley cathedral in his 1992 skater-shorts-and-four-shirts grunge years and sobbing on the Progressive Field concrete in Cubs GM Theo Epstein’s VIP box when the Cubs won it all in Cleveland. Also he’s (checks papers): sung “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” 400 times, brought..

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Only one fan was cheering for Eddie Pepperell, so Pepperell rewarded him mightily

David CannonEddie Pepperell, whom you probably remember as the guy who shot a final-round 67 at the 2018 British Open and then came clean to the press saying he did so hungover, is picking up even more fans. This time, he's taking his charm straight to the gallery. Or in this case, lack thereof. While at the Czech Masters, Pepperell gave one adoring fan his lob wedge. Here's the footage:
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The 27-year-old Englishman said that the fan earned the wedge by being the only guy on the property out there actively rooting for Pepperell. Take note, golf fans, every cheer matters.
“If he's still around he can have the other 13 maybe,” said Pepperell after his round. “He gave me a clap for my shot and he's the only one I heard clapping, so I said here you go, you can have my lob wedge.”
This is a great move by Pepperell, so great we're guessing he'll have more people cheering for him in the future. As Pepperell's fanbase grows, he's p..

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The Northern Trust’s greatest style statement was this amazing Jena Sims tee

For a tournament that was pretty much over by 5pm on Saturday, the Northern Trust Open certainly served up its fair share of intrigue. You had Phil talking trash about Tiger WHILE HIS BALL WAS STILL IN THE AIR, Tiger being pressed on his feelings about DJT, and Cameron Smith showing up for some post-round chit-chat with a dog under his arm. By far the most entertaining thing at Ridgewood Country Club, however, was this human:
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Before you ask, yes that's golf's most recent Meme of Fame inductee plastered on a t-shirt, and no, we have no idea how to get it, short of printing your own, which, if we had to guess, is exactly what John Belushi Jr. here did. It's unquestionably the style statement of the Northern Open—a tournament won by a 20-something man in a newsies cap—and we are Hulk-green with jealousy.
In case you've been living under a rock since Shinnecock, the shirt depicts Jena Sims—girlfriend of Brooks Koepka—giddily side-eyeing Tiger Wo..

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