Take Me Home From the Ballgame

[billroper]

Due to a bad scheduling confluence, I ended up planning to go to both tonight's Cubs/Tigers game and tomorrow's Cubs/Braves game. Sadly, I couldn't find anyone to go to the game with tonight. This turned out to be just as well, as I left with the Cubs trailing by four runs in the bottom of the fifth when the Tigers starter went down with an injury. The replacement pitcher was going to be given as long as he needed to warm up and it was already nearly 9 PM.

I was really tired and I figured that it would be just as well to go home and put the girls to bed and try again tomorrow night.

Given that the Cubs lost 15-8, I think this was a good decision.

However, I did score 50K AP in Ingress on the way to and from the ballpark. And I created the largest field that I'd ever created linking off Ernie's statue. And I upgraded my first portal to P8.

That last means that I finally made it to Level 8 a couple of days ago. :)

Comments

[patoadam]

I have nostalgic childhood memories of going to Cubs games with my friends. Ernie Banks. Billy Williams. Ron Santo. Ferguson Jenkins.

We took the train and the L from Highland Park. I actually preferred the White Sox, but we couldn't go to their games because my friends' parents thought Comiskey Park was in an unsafe neighborhood.

So I have been following the Cubs' attempts to make the playoffs. Seems like Jon Lester is having a very disappointing year. And they say he can't throw to first base.

[billroper]

Well, getting off the El at Comiskey was where I got my pocket picked once. The old Howard line stop used to be next to a potentially nasty housing project -- since then, they've rerouted it as the Red Line which runs a bit closer to Comiskey. (Excuse me, U.S. Cellular Field...)

Lester has not been what the Cubs would have hoped for thus far. And he indeed has a serious case of the yips when trying to make a throw to first. It's a mess.