I didagree with you. I could see them thinking "what a perfect opportunity to attract some attenion. with Cubdom so worked up over Dusty, its going to be EASY to get them to show up for this in NY. We dont need to go to Chicago for this at all, there are more then enough Cub fans all over the country to get this done in NY...." I really think was their line of thinking. Why would the deny an email existed if in fact they REALLY wrote it? If the email wa fake, that would be another story and I would fully by your thoughts..... A, we don't know it was fake. The guy who is using this to promote his site is the one claiming it was not fake. B, if it was real, we don't know who sent it, who knew it was sent, or who denied it was real. What we have is a guy who is trying to bring eyeballs to his own site by acting like some sort of hero, and then repeating the story. I live here. I see Cubs fans from time to time. When I talk to them most of them are just bummed about the season, and they do not have anywhere close to the amount of disgust toward Dusty that I have. They generally buy the myth that he's a great manager and that things just haven't gone our way. And bottom line is it was a joke. They didn't go out recruting booers, they mentioned that if you wanted to boo, you could boo. Big freaking deal. Characterizing this as an attempted ambush is a joke. I disagree it is a joke. if Kasper and the Tribune are involved, its one hell of a joke, and it would seem that Smith at some point would either say "hey, look kids, it was all a joke!!" or go after this guy for lying about the email and getting everyone else involved.