BSC 2019 Top 20 Countdown - #7 Mouse Gate

This is the 14th entry in the Barstool Chicago Top 20 Moments of 2019 blog series. The list is coming from our perspective as 4 dudes who got the job of a lifetime exactly one year ago.  

We covered this list in person at the December 20th live show. We're following it up on our podcasts to close out the year under following schedule: 

#20-16: Red Line Radio 12/23

#15-11: Dog Walk 12/23

#10-6: Red Line Radio 12/30 

#5-1: Dog Walk 12/30

#20 Eddie & Pres In Vegas 

#19 Miller Lite Sailboat

#18 Keeping The Watch Party At Declan's Alive

#17 St. Patrick's Day Got Rowdy

#16 March Madness In Wrigley

#15 Dee Brown Comes On Red Line Radio

#14 The Coldest Day In History

#13 Becoming Best Friends With Jeremy Roenick

#12 Going To The Joffrey Ballet

#11 Repeated WSD Blogging Errors

#10 Bears vs. Packers FanDuel Live Stream

#9 Burger King Manager Goes On Dog Walk

#8 Susanna

#7 Mouse Gate

One of the all time classics in my opinion and the start of just an all out war on White Sox Dave in 2019. Poor guy couldn't catch a break but at the same time he digs the grave himself. Calling out Pres on Super Bowl Sunday while he's getting kicked out and being the #1 influencer at the Super Bowl is mind bottling. Even more crazy though is the logic WSD has used to justify not chaining himself to the statue: 

I've spent probably 50-60+ hours in active conversation about this with WSD and I'll still never understand just how it came together. Why go after Pres? Why not chain yourself immediately? Who cares about Daniel Palka? What ever happened to that podcast? Why, again, not just chain yourself to the statue? Why not listen to Big Cat or Chief or Me or anyone who was repeatedly saying to chain yourself to the statue? Why did this become such a big fucking deal? 

That's the beauty of WSD. Only he can make this a story. Just like how only Frodo can carry the ring even though he's not the strongest in Middle Earth. It's the same thing. WSD is the chosen one I swear to fucking god. As we'll see later in this list he capitalizes on this big time, but realistically speaking it took a long time to get there and that's because Mouse Gate was so huge. Mix that with a bad White Sox team and it was like waves on a beach every day with the kind of shit talking that was coming into Barstool Chicago HQ.

Well guess what. In the words of my business partner White Sox Dave

You guys are all cocksuckers

Some people are born entertainers and WSD is one of them. No other reason for how the guy does it.

Up Next - #6 WSD Finally Chains Himself To Statute, Almost Gets Struck Down By Lightning