{"id":3836,"date":"2009-09-05T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T02:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2009-09-05T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T02:18:30","slug":"last-baseball-game-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"Last Baseball Game of the Year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0288.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3890805825\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2651\/3890805825_a137ee7a32.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0288.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Julie and I headed down to South Side for the White Sox &#8211; Red Sox game. \u00a0We got our tickets through the Blackhawks who were having a fan appreciation day (Julie&#8217;s got more on that <a title=\"Chicagometsfan.comBlackhawks Night at U.S. Cellular Field.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagometsfan.com\/?p=679\">here<\/a>). \u00a0I was there for the baseball. The Sox ended up <a title=\"ESPN:  Kotsay stings former 'mates with 3 RBIs as White Sox hammer Red Sox.\" href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=290904104\">killing<\/a> the Sox 12-2.<\/p>\n<p>I must say the food, seats, views and most importantly bathrooms are 100 times better at <a title=\"Wikipedia:  US Cellular Field.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Cellular_Field\">US Cellular Field<\/a> as compared to <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Wrigley Field.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrigley_field\">Wrigley Field<\/a>. \u00a0Granted Wrigley is within walking distance to my house so that is why I probably end up at more Cubs games than Sox games. \u00a0This year I have probably seen more baseball games than in any other year, including games in 4 different cities.<\/p>\n<p>I guess my point to all this is that I&#8217;m really glad Football Season has begun.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0005.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3890795427\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3461\/3890795427_f625063658_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0269.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3890803703\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3486\/3890803703_98d2508ee8_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0269.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0302.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3891599390\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2595\/3891599390_520bb6322a_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0302.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0117.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3891589450\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3521\/3891589450_dc55e8c836_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0117.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sidenote:<\/p>\n<p>* Julie and I were able to &#8216;parade&#8217; around the field before the game as part of the Blackhawks event. \u00a0This is a photograph of us on the grass before the guy behind us threw us out. \u00a0Clearly we were not supposed to be on the grass.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0127.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3891583944\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2618\/3891583944_b6d7d21dec.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0127.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>** The View From My Seat:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0315.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3891602258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2599\/3891602258_51a71d5d88.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0315.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*** Beermen on the South Side are a little rougher than their North Side <a title=\"Mets \u2013 Cubs: Men of Wrigley Field.\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3829\">counterparts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0244.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3891592284\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3515\/3891592284_fd33535243.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0244.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Julie and I headed down to South Side for the White Sox &#8211; Red Sox game. \u00a0We got our tickets through the Blackhawks who were having a fan appreciation day (Julie&#8217;s got more on that here). \u00a0I was there for the baseball. The Sox ended up killing the Sox 12-2. I must say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,17],"tags":[40,87,300,415,401],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-common-man","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-red-sox","tag-u-s-cellular-field","tag-white-sox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-ZS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}