One thing is for certain: Theo Epstein knows how to throw a party.
Over the weekend, Paradise Rock Club hosted Boston’s annual Hot Stove Cool Music charity concert that benefits Epstein’s Foundation To Be Named Later organization while the Cubs were in town to face the Boston Red Sox. The Cubs dropped Game 1 of the series on Friday but bounced back to win Game 2 Saturday evening.
Theo must have been in a celebratory mood after his new team defeated his old team because he got absolutely ripped at the event and took a mean spill while he was trying to shred onstage with Pearl Jam front man, Eddie Vedder.
The event looked like it was a pretty bad ass time which was highlighted by Vedder rocking out early into Sunday morning.
What you DON’T see is the fact that when Vedder was rocking everyone’s faces off, Epstein took the 2004 and 2016 World Series trophies from backstage and let the two trophies crowd surf with the drunken Red Sox and Cubs fans.
Not the best idea he’s ever had.
Mark Shanahan of the Boston Globe reported earlier today that the Cubs trophy had a few missing parts when the concert finally ended.
“Problem is, the Commissioner’s Trophy, as MLB’s ultimate prize is called, is fragile. It weighs 30 pounds, but it features 30 little gold-plated flags — one for each MLB team — that apparently can break very easily. We’re told that at least a few of the flags on the Cubs trophy snapped off while it was making its way through the crowd.”
Luckily, the pieces were retrieved and the trophy was repaired in time for fans to take pictures with for the final game of the series which was held Sunday night. Shanahan goes on to say,
“As far as we know, none of the fans who donated $20 to the Red Sox Foundation and Chicago Cubs Charities to have their picture taken with the trophies noticed the solder (or superglue) that was keeping the Cubs trophy together.”
Shanahan hit the nail on the head with fans not being able to notice the damage. I was one of those fans who was lucky enough to get my picture taken with both trophies Sunday night and had no idea that the Cubs trophy was being held together by glue.
To my credit, I may or may not have been a few beers deep at that point.
Let’s just keep the Commissioner’s Trophy in a trophy case moving forward please.
