Just an hour south of me.
Had a nice trip with some of my girls tonight. And the Cardinals won so it was a success.
My Cardinals-fanatic son wasn’t there so we got to show the youngest what it was like when the Cards win.
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Those baby blue jerseys have to be the best in baseball. So sharp.
Yankees v. Padres would be a fun WS. Being a Rockies fan, I (have to?) like a lot of baseball teams.
Oh, oh, I know this one! That is literally the hotel where I attended a convention last year. After hours walked across the bridge to downtown Cincy. Timing of the convention was terrible, though. Well, for me. I was ready to pack my Cubs swag for a game. Maybe next time. Have a blast at the game tonight, Scott. Go Cubs Go!
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Tatis Jr. is being suspended for 80 games for Closterbol. I missed that news yesterday when I suggested SD in an interesting WS matchup. Still, I’ll be pulling for whomever the underdogs might be. Not the Yanks nor the Dodgers. Maybe the Os and the Phils…TBD
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How was attendance at that game?
Funny you should ask!!
I took a photo because I was amazed. The place was rocking with 45,669 souls. Free embroidered jersey to the first 25,000.
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Read about the Tatis suspension yesterday. Losing a franchise player the Padres lineup was built around is tough. Why would anyone risk his career with a banned substance? What a waste.
The Jackie Robinson Museum had it’s Official Opening in July. I’ve been waiting for it’s public opening since 2017. I always wished to have been able to view the Dodgers Ebbits’s field in Brooklyn, or the Giants Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan. I did spend loads of time in the old Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, where, as a Cub Scout, I first saw the Cubs play, way back in 1966.
When I was a teenager, I had a summer job in a massive printing factory near the JFK airport in Queens, NY [the “Goodfella’s” neighborhood]. I came across a bin of brass printing plates slated for disposal. Being curious, I riffled through them and found, among other things, this partial plate for a Jackie Robinson doll from the 1950’s. Still have it to this day.
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No offense to any Chicago North Side Baseball Team fans here, but any time they lose is a good day in my book.
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No offense taken. But, prepare to be disappointed tonight.
Go Cubs. Get that ‘W’!
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Apologies, but we carry the burdens we grow up with. It will always be hard for me to wish the Chicago North Side Baseball Team well as a South Side kid who always saw my Sox as second-class citizens in town.
Even in 2005, the story seemed to be “yeah, but the CUBS will be here soon”. Add in the fact that I have a Cardinals fanatic (as a kid, he didn’t just know the names of the players’s wives, but the names of their pets) and it’s a pretty hostile environment for the North Side in my life.
Ah well. Probably more explanation than you needed to hear. But I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve. Especially here.
Love to all.
Mike
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Due to a series of lifetime circumstances and opportunities, I have been to more White Sox games (including the old Comiskey Park, where the drunks spilled beer on little kids from the upper deck, as well as the “new” park) than Cub’s home games.
But, I grew up with a die hard Cubs fan for a father and I still have fond memories of straining to hear the game on the family TV during the summer when I was supposed to be asleep in my bed.
Pepitone, Cardinal, Beckert, Williams, Jenkins and so on are the players’ names of my youth.
However, I still have a special place in my heart for the South Siders, especially the “Winning Ugly” crew from 1983 (the year after I graduated high school).
I wish the White Sox luck, so long as they are not playing the Cubs – and I would love, love to see an actual cross-town World Series some day.
Cheers.
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Taking my four year old grandson to the White Sox game this Thursday. It will be his third game there. I’m betting a good time will be had by all.
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Nice! The last time I had seats behind home is when my kids played Little League.
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There are times when I kick myself for not going to a game. Last night is one of those games at Wrigley. Miley, back from the IL, starting. But then, I was following the game on-line, Ross put Hayden Wesneski on the mound for his Cubs rookie debut. Wesneski is the 24-year old prospect Jed Hoyer traded Scott Effross to the Yanks for. Now the 12th ranked prospect in the Cubs farm system. Well OK, I thought. One year minimum in AA/AAA before being brought up.
Nope.
For 5 innings my jaw dropped. This kid threw a 5 pitch arsenal: 4-seamer, curveball, slider, sinker, changeup with a 70%+ strike rate. He totally blanked the Reds. I can’t remember a Cubs rookie debut remotely as good. Nor can the club historians who had to go back to 1901 for a comparable rookie debut. Wesneski is sensational. And just a taste of the talent the Cubs have refreshed the farm system with. Wow! Demonstrated command of 5 pitches … what is left to develop. A knuckle-curve?
Too bad “we” can’t play the Reds every other series.
Just wait ‘till next year!