Irrelevant Dude

What the hell are you looking at Jeimer?

My wife is at a rooftop event today and they are gonna get screwed. The rooftops must love 2 hour games, but I bet they haven't lowered their prices.

Oh come on cameraman. You had me thinking that was about 8 rows deep.

Ok Taillon. That'll do

Amaya's throwing arm is going to be a problem.

That's 4 more pitches than Alzolay has thrown in a week!

Oh well, it's just a bad night and those happen. Maybe Taillon finds the magic again tomorrow, or the Cubs offense shows up and overcomes his inevitable blow-up. The Cubs are going to lose plenty more games this year, and this was one of them.

I wouldn't go quite that far, but I do agree with a few of those points: The speakers can be blaringly loud. It depends a lot on where you are sitting with respect to the speaker positions, but I have one directly above my seats and it occasionally becomes very distracting and drowns out any attempt at conversation. I wish the video board would be utilized more often for replays, as that is where I find the most benefit. I do miss the traditional organ music and would much prefer that over the personalized player walk-up songs (most of which have zero appeal to me), but I also completely understand that the world has moved on and the walk-up music is never going away. With that said, I think the game experience is largely the same as it has always been. You might have to put up with a few more advertisements and you might have to go to the concession stand instead of waiting for a hot dog or peanut vendor to walk by, but the cumulative changes that have been made are relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.

Grace is back in the studio, huh? I thought he was done with Marquee.

Annoying so far that the Diamondbacks hits are carrying into the basket and the Cubs' are dying at the warning track.

I can't get worked up about Assad having a bad start. The Cubs have already got more out of him than anyone could have expected. If they lose this one, just shrug it off and move on to tomorrow. Of course, there are still plenty of innings left for the Cubs offense to overcome the deficit.

Assad is getting hit hard tonight.

That ball carried surprisingly well. I thought it was a catchable ball off the bat.

Hats off to @Matt Trueblood for this article getting referenced on Bernstein & Holmes this morning.

It's weird that these teams who appear to be bad and on the verge of falling completely out of the race suddenly turn things around and go on winning streaks. A few weeks ago, I thought the Marlins were the unlikeliest of all the wild card contenders to make the playoffs and now they suddenly keep winning. Likewise, the Diamondbacks have alternated winning and losing streaks at various points. The Cubs have been the one steady team over the past couple months.

So you're advocating for replacing the entire back half of the bullpen with 3 complete wild cards? A break is one thing, but expecting those other 3 guys to just jump into late inning relief is crazy talk.

As much as I don't want the Cubs to take their foot off the pedal, tomorrow's game seems like a good candidate to give a few starters some rest. Day after night game with another big 4 game series coming and 7 more days total without a break. It probably wouldn't hurt to sit a few of the guys who have been playing every single day for the past month plus.

This has been quite a response coming off the 2 blown saves. Many of us have been conditioned to think that those types of bad losses are going to lead to the inevitable collapse, but this team has fought back time and time again. They just continue to find ways to win series after series

The Cy Young award might still be within reach.

Maybe Canario can make his debut as a pitcher.

So, who is up in the pen?

Leiter might be toast.

Counterpoint: Hit some dingers instead.

The same Reds offense that just scored 3 in the 8th to tie up the Mariners at 6-6?

I'll sit anywhere but Terrace Reserved. Some of the Terrace Reserved seats are ok if you know exactly what you are getting, but I would prefer to always be in front of the steel poles. Terrace Box are good for an affordable option, and I still think Upper Deck Box gives the best view in the ballpark. I'm coming from a fair distance south of the city, so I typically have to drive. Taking the Metra to the Red Line is usually more trouble than it is worth, especially when it comes to getting home at night after a game. For night and weekend games, I usually take advantage of the Cubs remote parking service at 3900 N. Rockwell St. They have buses running back and forth starting 2 hours before the game up until I think an hour after to shuttle people back and forth from the lot to the dropoff point. For other games, I used to park on the street just north of Irving Park and west of Southport, but there were some changes made to the parking rules this year that make LV2 parking a riskier proposition since street parking is only allowed until 5pm regardless of what time the game took place. That means if you park on the street and a game runs a little long, you are at risk of being in violation of the parking rules and ticketed/towed. With that said, I have started using SpotHero more, but I'm still in search of a better (preferably free) parking option, even if that means a bit more walking. The food is fine for what it is, but certainly isn't the best ballpark food around. Always get the grilled onions on the hot dogs, and stock up on the free dill pickle spears! One thing I have discovered more recently is that the giant soft pretzel in a box is worth the extra money over a regular-sized pretzel. Those standard soft pretzels are almost always terrible anytime I get them and taste like they are multipel days old. I think a regular pretzel is about $8 and the giant pretzel is close to $20, but the giant pretzel will feed 3-4 people and is almost always fresh. I have started just buying the giant pretzel anytime I take my son and we will just eat off that for multiple innings. Also, for the beer-drinking traditionalists, there are still a few places where you can buy Old Style, which is still my go-to beer whenever I'm at Wrigley. I haven't ventured out much in recent years and can't remember the last time I went south of Addison. Whenever I get something to eat or meet up with friends before or after a game, it is usually at Yak-zies. My wife enjoys Big Star, so we will occasionally go there as well, but I can't speak to much outside of that. The Diner Grill off Irving Park Rd. is another great spot for breakfast or late-night food further away from the ballpark.