Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon found a clever way to simultaneously take a shot at Chicago’s recently-repealed soda tax and an MLB rule about blocking home plate following game one of the NLCS.
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Joe Maddon really hates something called the SODA tax.
What is this "soda" thing he speaks of? ? pic.twitter.com/teKH1MttXm
— Cubs Talk (@NBCSCubs) October 15, 2017
In the bottom of the seventh inning of Saturday night’s NLCS opening game, the catcher for the Cubs was ruled to have interfered with a Dodgers base-runner at home plate.
Joe Maddon compares MLB's block-the-plate rule to Toni Preckwinkle's Cook Co. soda tax: "My point is not all laws are good ones." #Cubs
— Bill Ruthhart (@BillRuthhart) October 15, 2017
The rule is relatively new, and Maddon voiced his frustration during the game (he got thrown out) and afterward in the postgame press conference.
https://twitter.com/RealFredSox/status/919399044455256064
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I have new respect for @CubsJoeMadd https://t.co/070JXxh95f
— Lawrence Hamtil (@lhamtil) October 15, 2017
Joe knows what's up https://t.co/icFd9V5wCN
— Ryan Stuprich (@RyanStuprich) October 15, 2017
Haha yeah, you're supposed to just pay it and NEVER ask why. Good job! LOL #mypoliticianthinksforme https://t.co/tmjW62pTW8
— BearFly (@Fly1965) October 15, 2017
Yeah, taxing soda is pretty dumb. So dumb, in fact, that Cook County, which contains Chicago, voted to repeal the tax on soda last week.
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