On Saturday night I was in Wrigleyville on my way to a bar to celebrate a friend's birthday. As I got off at the Addison stop of the red line stop so many Cubs fans take to see their favorite team played, I walked along outside of Wrigley Field on my way to the bar. As I was walking by the stadium, I came across the as of yet unveiled statue of Ernie Banks. The statue was wrapped up for the most part, except for Ernie's feet and the statue's base. It didn't take me long to notice something wrong with the statue. The statue was inscribed with Banks' legendary "Let's play two!" mantra, but there was one tiny little problem. It didn't say "Let's Play Two" it said "Lets Play Two." My first reaction, of course, was to chuckle and think to myself that only the Cubs could screw up a monument to one of their all-time greats, and then I wondered how on earth nobody else had noticed this mistake.
Then the team unveiled the statue on Monday, and well, people noticed.
At least half the people I asked leaned toward the inscription, mouthed it-Lets play two, lets play two, lets play two-then shook their heads, no.
"That's just a nitpicky thing about English," said a guy named Brian when I pointed it out. He declined to give his last name on the grounds that he didn't want to be on the record insulting the Cubs.
