On Sunday Julie and I headed to Cincinnati on our ‘mini honeymoon’ for the Mets – Reds game at Great American Ballpark. We got to the stadium early and hung out at The Machine Room which overlooks the outfield for the Reds batting practice. We had great seats about 4 rows back from the field on the third base side. The Reds ended up winning on a home run in the bottom of the 11th.
*Side Note:
Hurley from LOST sat a couple of rows in front of us:
Yesterday Julie and I headed down to South Side for the White Sox – Red Sox game. We got our tickets through the Blackhawks who were having a fan appreciation day (Julie’s got more on that here). I was there for the baseball. The Sox ended up killing the Sox 12-2.
I must say the food, seats, views and most importantly bathrooms are 100 times better at US Cellular Field as compared to Wrigley Field. Granted Wrigley is within walking distance to my house so that is why I probably end up at more Cubs games than Sox games. This year I have probably seen more baseball games than in any other year, including games in 4 different cities.
I guess my point to all this is that I’m really glad Football Season has begun.
Sidenote:
* Julie and I were able to ‘parade’ around the field before the game as part of the Blackhawks event. This is a photograph of us on the grass before the guy behind us threw us out. Clearly we were not supposed to be on the grass.
** The View From My Seat:
*** Beermen on the South Side are a little rougher than their North Side counterparts.
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.
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:
* Tim Tebow of the Florida Gators made an appearance.
** Billy Cub once again was adhering to his restraining order and roaming the perimeter of Wrigley Field.
*** The view from my seat.