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The Layoff Dopamine Hit

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The History of Big League Chew

Big League Chew is like shredded bubblegum that's designed to look like chewing tobacco and it was made famous in the 80s by baseball players. Todd Field, who did tar, invented Big League Chew when he was a bat boy for a Portland minor league baseball team because he was trying to impress the baseball players or something. So just for comparison, tar grows $6.7 million last year.

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