Things You Will do on April 13 (Those going to Opening Day!)

[Soul]

One horrible, terrible for anyone sitting in a 100 foot radius around you.

 

When Milton Bradley is blasted by one of your toxic farts, is blinded and slams into the bricks, we will all be sad.

 

This post is all kinds of awesomeness.

 

I lol'd.

[nilodnayr]

1. Get to Wrigley by no later than 9:00am.

 

2. Get 3 soft tacos (no lettuce for good luck) by 10:00 am from the Taco Bell across the street from Wrigley. From the same lady I get my beautiful tacos from every year for the last 7 years.

 

3. Honor the Ernie Banks/Harry Caray statues.

 

4. Be in line for the bleachers no later than 10:20am.

 

5. Enter bleachers (RIGHT FIELD) at 11:20 and heckle the Rockies as they warm up.

 

6. Get an Old Style and Nachos immediately and pray for lefties to send a HR ball our way during BP.

 

7. Repeatedly ask Milton Bradley "HOW MANY OUTS!?!?!?" and have him wave his fingers at us with the amount of outs currently in the inning. (This practice would normally be frowned upon except when you see a veteran like Derrek Lee forget how many outs there are and cost his team an inning.)

 

Even if you are going to end up in RF (which is dumb), get in the left field line for the bleachers, typically much much shorter. I don't want to get into the RF sucks, LF sucks, becuase thats really lame, just that LF bleachers typically fill up later than RF bleachers and as mentioned previously, Soriano is very very interactive and fun to watch.

 

Anywho, I'll be sitting in section 206 for opening day since I've officially become too lazy for the bleachers.

[Keener98]

Out of pure curiosity, why do RF bleachers fill up faster? Im going to the Cubs-Cleve game in June and will be sitting in the bleachers for the 1st time, so I was just wondering. Also is it true that you need to get there about 2 hours early if you have bleacher seats?

[Cynosure]

Out of pure curiosity, why do RF bleachers fill up faster? Im going to the Cubs-Cleve game in June and will be sitting in the bleachers for the 1st time, so I was just wondering. Also is it true that you need to get there about 2 hours early if you have bleacher seats?

 

I get there no later than 3 hours before.

[Roast]

Out of pure curiosity, why do RF bleachers fill up faster? Im going to the Cubs-Cleve game in June and will be sitting in the bleachers for the 1st time, so I was just wondering. Also is it true that you need to get there about 2 hours early if you have bleacher seats?

They don't. Left field fills up far faster. The LINE into the RF bleachers is much longer, generally, however because it is closer to the Red line (CTA train), hense most people come from that direction and get into the first line they see.

 

EDIT: and it's true you need to be there when gates open (2 hours before game time) if you want a seat in the first few rows. You generally need to be there at least an hour early to get a bleacher seat at all. If you don't get there till game time don't expect to find anything more than a single seat scattered here and there.

[Keener98]

Out of pure curiosity, why do RF bleachers fill up faster? Im going to the Cubs-Cleve game in June and will be sitting in the bleachers for the 1st time, so I was just wondering. Also is it true that you need to get there about 2 hours early if you have bleacher seats?

They don't. Left field fills up far faster. The LINE into the RF bleachers is much longer, generally, however because it is closer to the Red line (CTA train), hense most people come from that direction and get into the first line they see.

 

 

Ahh ok that makes sense. Does it really matter if you get there early for the bleachers or not? 12 05 game and I kinda like going around before the game(cheaper beer) but if it is really a concern Ill definately get there as early as possible.

[UMFan83]

I need that SlingPlayer app to come out for iPhone already. That will be key.

 

Is that actually coming out? All I hear are rumors. The second that app comes out I'm going to buy a slingbox. I wasn't too sure about streaming video on the iPhone, but then I bought that NCAA tournament app and it was pretty damn good quality.

[Keener98]

Out of pure curiosity, why do RF bleachers fill up faster? Im going to the Cubs-Cleve game in June and will be sitting in the bleachers for the 1st time, so I was just wondering. Also is it true that you need to get there about 2 hours early if you have bleacher seats?

They don't. Left field fills up far faster. The LINE into the RF bleachers is much longer, generally, however because it is closer to the Red line (CTA train), hense most people come from that direction and get into the first line they see.

 

EDIT: and it's true you need to be there when gates open (2 hours before game time) if you want a seat in the first few rows. You generally need to be there at least an hour early to get a bleacher seat at all. If you don't get there till game time don't expect to find anything more than a single seat scattered here and there.

 

 

Ok gotcha. I forgot gates open 2 hours before gametime, I was thinking we'd be standing in line for a long ass time. Im a dumbass

[mjohnson71]

Take the next day off from work.

 

Then again I'm getting older and Opening Day is no longer a day long drunkfest for me.

[imb]

i'll read pages and pages of info at collegiatecub.blogspot.com

[manbearcub]

i'll read pages and pages of info at collegiatecub.blogspot.com

dammit how did i not know about this until now

[The R-Train]

Get 3 soft tacos (no lettuce for good luck) by 10:00 am from the Taco Bell across the street from Wrigley. From the same lady I get my beautiful tacos from every year for the last 7 years.

 

What the hell is wrong with the world?

 

She's actually addicted to crack I think.

 

I'm surprised she can afford it.