I think that anyone that's been in ORD knows that to be sarcasm. You'll ****em off if you read that back verbatim. A few years ago there was a guy that did a PA announcment over ORD tower freq. It was a full blown "welcome aboard" and it was one of those days in ORD. Tower guy let him have it and about 5 other guys took a fun poke at him too. In the end, nobody died and everyone got their clearances. I too would rather fly with MLB guy vs the training dept stiff.