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You really have no idea who is in the bar (or if it's even open) when you play a song, but it's pretty funny to imagine it full of confused customers listening to "Feliz Navidad" in June. It turned into a give-and-take with my Twitter followers, where they'd tweet me with the bar they were in (anywhere in the US) and I'd play something awful for them on that jukebox.like Christmas songs in the middle of the summer, or Yakety Sax, or Total Eclipse of the Heart. After a while I started playing awful songs when I wasn't there just to troll the other regulars.I'd play a song and immediately get hateful text messages. so if someone else precedes me, my hat's off to them!"ĭespite his Western roots, our friendly troll - who declined to give his real name - writes that he's "had a soft spot for the Cubs since watching them growing up in the '80s and '90s," adding that he traveled to Chicago last month to catch an earlier Cardinals-Cubs series.īut where did the idea for the prank come from? We'll tell the tale in his own words:Ī couple years ago I downloaded the AMI Barlink app to play tunes on the jukebox at my local bar here in Phoenix.
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"I'm not aware of any co-conspirators," he writes in an email. Louis jukeboxes for the sheer sadistic thrill of doesn't have all the answers. take his plan on a test-run on Monday? Did he copy the prank idea from someone else? Or did he inspire copycat pranksters who now prey on St. However, Manzelli says that the bartender on duty during Tuesday's game didn't hear the song play.Īfter talking with the bartenders, we were left with more questions. "It was just blasting, just really loud." "Nobody put money in the jukebox, it just started playing," Manzelli says. A manager at West Park Bowl, in Columbia, says the song began playing on their jukebox on Monday, although he also says he heard the tune playing yesterday.Īnd Jean Manzelli, a bartender at Crestwood Bowl, says the song startled her on Wednesday morning, long after the Cards went down to defeat on Tuesday evening, as she passed the jukebox inside the bar. (Still, Crowl adds that the bar patrons didn't seem bothered by the folksy strains of Steve Goodman's 1984 hit. "People were so into the game that they ignored the jukebox coming on," she says.)īut it seems that may not have been working alone, or, perhaps, he was not the first Cubs fan to corrupt St.
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"Oh my god, it scared me at first, because our jukebox doesn't usually play like that, you have to put money in it."Ĭrowl says the infernal song played twice an hour, and it was still playing when she left the bar at 6 p.m. "It started about 12:30, one o'clock," says Cheryl Crowl, a bartender at The Hanger in Belleville. xOHNPgR1q3- Clue Heywood October 13, 2015Īnd Heywood, as it turns out, wasn't full of shit. I'm trolling Cardinals fans the RIGHT way. I'm remote playing "Go Cubs Go" at every St. I'm trolling Cardinals fans the RIGHT way," he wrote. "I'm remote playing 'Go Cubs Go' at every St. Twitter user and Arizona native took credit for the prank, tweeting his plans about an hour before the first pitch.