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This Photo Sums Up Everything About Being A Cubs Fan

This Single Photo Sums Up Being A Cubs Fan
Kim Bellware
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Reporter, HuffPost

It seems the Chicago Cubs' infamous curse extends to even replicas of Wrigley Field.

A five-foot by five-foot, 400-pound cake version of the Friendly Confines baked in honor of the ballpark's centennial landed in the dumpster -- uneaten -- less than 24 hours after it was unveiled Wednesday to delighted fans.

The epic confection, created by New Jersey's Buddy Valastra of "Cake Boss" fame, was reduced to a disappointing, crummy mess -- a sad but strikingly apt illustration of how Cubs fans must feel season after season.

The Wrigley cake, in happier times:

The cake was put on display with plenty of pomp at Wrigley Field on Wednesday. After the game, which the Cubs lost, the cake went to the Field Museum for a Cubs charity event.

It was all downhill after that.

By mid-day Thursday, a purported Field Museum employee tasked with disposing of the cake shared photos of the sad scene on Reddit. Naturally, they went viral, though his post has since been deleted from Reddit. (Good luck, buddy!)

In a rare reversal of roles, the Cubs got to be the disappointed party rather than the disappointers. The team released a statement to RedEye Chicago Friday:

"The Chicago Cubs are disappointed in how our Wrigley Field display cake was disposed by the Field Museum following our successful charity event. The team made a decision not to serve the edible portion after the cake was on display outside Wrigley Field for most of the day. Though the cake was mostly made up of non-edible material, it certainly does not excuse how a celebratory cake artfully created by Buddy Valastro and Carlo’s Bakery was handled."

The Field Museum responded in turn, saying, “We regret what happened and are taking steps to ensure that nothing like it happens again.”

The Cubs have made no such promises about the upcoming season.

h/t RedEye Chicago

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In this April 10, 2014 photo, Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard is seen before a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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This April 10, 2014 photo shows a view of the field from inside Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operators Brian Helmus, left, and Fred Washington look out to the field from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, metal plates of team names and numeral signs are laid out inside of the scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operators Brian Helmus, left, and Fred Washington look out to the field from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Brian Helmus changes scores from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Brian Helmus changes scores from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, a panel full of buttons that Rick Fuhs in the press box behind home plate operates and sends an electrical charge into a panel of half ball-shaped “targets,” causing specific ones to flip so that they add up to form the number of the batter, and the number of balls, strikes and outs on Wrigley Field's iconic scoreboard during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Darryl Wilson keeps up with the game as he watches from inside Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard as during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Darryl Wilson keeps up with the game as he watches from inside Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard as during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. Wilson mans the two top floors, little more than scaffolding of the three-level scoreboard, tracking scores from around baseball and changing scores and the uniform numbers of pitchers as managers in those games bring in relievers. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Darryl Wilson keeps up with the game as he watches from inside Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard as during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, metal plates of team names and numeral signs are laid out inside of the scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, an extra cushion from his old chair is placed on the seat of scoreboard operator Fred Washington as his fellow operator Brian Helmus looks out to the field from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Brian Helmus changes scores from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, scoreboard operator Fred Washington looks out to the field from inside the iconic scoreboard at Wrigley Field during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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