8/7 - Other Games

[erik316wttn]

GAME! Cards are 6 back.

 

I would love to make that a 9 after this weekend and really put the dagger in them.

[Laura]

Josh Fogg has taken all of the drama out o the Red/Astros game.

 

Holy crap, Oswalt is now 21-1 career vs the Reds.

[Soul]

6 games back for the Cards is a nice way to end the day.

[Ski]

This is a bit unrelated, but...

 

Okay, I am currently visiting some relatives in Chicago right now. I live in North Dakota, so I hardly ever get to see any baseball games. Tonight, my aunt was able to get some tickets to the Sox game tonight. I'm a Cubs fan, but I'm also a baseball fan, and since I hardly ever get to go to any games, I was excited to go.

 

Our seats were really good. We were in the left field seats, about ten rows back. The White Sox bullpen was one row down and an aisle over, really close. Now, I was wearing my Cubs hat just for the hell of it (I'm not afraid of getting beat of by rabid sox fans). Around the 2nd inning, I was eating a hot dog, when I noticed that the White Sox bullpen coach was motioning for me to come over. I go over there, and this conversation (along these lines) occurs:

 

Coach: "I'm glad you decided to come watch a real baseball game. Those other guys are AAA or AA."

Me: "Well, we're 23 games over 500"

C: "Yeah, in AAA."

M: "I was at the game yesterday. They hit a grand slam."

C: *Something I can't remember*

M: "We swept you guys this year."

C: "Yeah, we were drunk."

C: "There's a reason the AL has won the all star game 12 (?) years in a row."

 

(Obviously, we were just joking around)

 

After this, he tossed me a baseball, and we both laughed, and I went to go sit back down. At the end of the game, Octavio Dotel was signing autographs, and I got one (I took my cubs hat off obviously).

 

Overall, this experience was better than the game. I got to talk trash with the Sox bullpen coach, and I got a free ball, my first one ever at a game. I'll certainly remember tonight for a while.

Edited August 8, 2008 by Ski

[98navigator]

This is a bit unrelated, but...

 

Okay, I am currently visiting some relatives in Chicago right now. I live in North Dakota, so I hardly ever get to see any baseball games. Tonight, my aunt was able to get some tickets to the Sox game tonight. I'm a Cubs fan, but I'm also a baseball fan, and since I hardly ever get to go to any games, I was excited to go.

 

Our seats were really good. We were in the left field seats, about ten rows back. The White Sox bullpen was one row down and an aisle over, really close. Now, I was wearing my Cubs hat just for the hell of it (I'm not afraid of getting beat of by rabid sox fans). Around the 2nd inning, I was eating a hot dog, when I noticed that the White Sox bullpen coach was motioning for me to come over. I go over there, and this conversation (along these lines) occurs:

 

Coach: "I'm glad you decided to come watch a real baseball game. Those other guys are AAA or AA."

Me: "Well, we're 23 games over 500"

C: "Yeah, in AAA."

M: "I was at the game yesterday. They hit a grand slam."

C: *Something I can't remember*

M: "We swept you guys this year."

C: "Yeah, we were drunk."

C: "There's a reason the AL has won the all star game 12 (?) years in a row."

 

After this, he tossed me a baseball, and we both laughed, and I went to go sit back down. At the end of the game, Octavio Dotel was signing autographs, and I got one (I took my cubs hat off obviously).

 

Overall, this experience was better than the game. I got to talk trash with the Sox bullpen coach, and I got a free ball, my first one ever at a game. I'll certainly remember tonight for a while.

 

I'm PO'd by this exchange. If the Cubs are AAA then the mighty sox shouldn't have lost any games to them. Idiot

[David]

but they were drunk

[Ski]

but they were drunk

Guess we can forget about having any success against the Sox next year.

[Andy]

I'm getting sick of the AAA nonsense, especially when the White Sox play in possibly the second-worst division in baseball while the Cubs play in the second-best.

 

BTW, according to Pythagorean the Cubs should have the best record in baseball by 3.5 games. AAA that.