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Mets – Cubs: Men of Wrigley Field

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This past weekend the Mets were in town and I went to a couple of games with Julie (I skipped the second game in protest of the concept of ‘Pitch Counts‘ which are completely arbitrary and in my humble opinion total bullshit).  Today’s game the Mets actually won and as you can see in the photographs above I focused on the beermen and the ushers.  Badass mustaches are nearly required to work as a beerman or an usher at Wrigley Field.

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Jon Lovitz threw out the first pitch (after a muligan he made a decent throw) and sung during the 7th inning stretch.  I must say I respect Lovitz as he didn’t wear the lame personalized jersey.  Instead he wore a Ernie Banks jersey.

Side Notes:

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* Tim Tebow of the Florida Gators made an appearance.

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** Billy Cub once again was adhering to his restraining order and roaming the perimeter of Wrigley Field.

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*** The view from my seat.

Sal has the best seat in the house.

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Once again Legendary Traffic Coordinator Sal Pisconeri came to town.  The main purpose of the weekend was to see another Cleveland sports team lose a game despite itself.  We accomplished this with the best seats in Wrigley Field.  I of course secured the tickets figuring no way a ‘Row 1’ seat can really be obstructed view.  I was wrong.   Dead wrong.  As you can see in the top photograph there was a load bearing steel I-beam directly in front of my seat.  I could only see the batter, center and right field.  Really quite amazing.  On two separate occasions I was shocked to learn from Sal (who sat to my right) that the Indians had the bases loaded.  This is because I could not see any of the bases… at a Baseball game.

Classic.

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The Kyle Neugebauer Bachelor Party was also in town, which of course led to a couple bar ‘throwouts’, several broken bottles and some really bad choices.  On the other hand Sal and I managed to go nearly the entire weekend with just two meals. I have to say if you’re going to spend 48 hours in Chicago and only eat twice you do as we did.  Wiener’s Circle (after 1am) and Lou Malnati’s deep dish pizza (I’ve moved on from my infatuation with Giordano’s over the last 8 months).  Needless to say Lou Malnati’s put us into a food coma which lasted about 4 hours and threw us off our game.

But as great men always do… we rallied.

Dominic's Bachelor Party.

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This weekend a group of gentlemen gathered in the Queen City for Dominic’s bachelor party.  As you can tell in the photographs below we managed to have a good time, watch some baseball and make reservations… everywhere.  We got to watch the Reds managed to beat the cubs in 11 innings from the comfort of a suite that included Skyline Chili and a desert/alcohol cart.  Not to mention the parting gifts…

There isn’t much remembered about the rest of the night but I believe these pictures tell a story:

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*Side Note:

  1. For the record this is my third baseball game in nine days.
  2. This was the chair in one of our hotel rooms.  We made a couple of aesthetic adjustments over the course of the weekend but essentially this is how it was when we received it:

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