i 'heart' the cubbies!

I ‘heart’ the cubbies

Cubs games are awesome. If you’ve never been to one, you need to come visit me immediately or if not this season then next… they are just so much fun and there isn’t a better ball park out there than Wrigley.

My friend, doug, was in town for a meeting and he got here Tuesday (the 11th) and left this morning (the 13th). That story is for another blog. I’ll explain who he is and what else we did then. But for this story, we met up with a couple of his friends who also happened to be in town. Sam and roddy. So last night, we scored awesome tickets b/c of his friends. The night before, sam and roddy had gone to barleycorns which is across the street from the stadium. Their waitress, michelle, was super cool and offered them these awesome seats on the third base line for free. The story, according to the guys, is that she dates the owner of the bar who has a bunch of tickets so she can give them out if no one is using them. She told the boys she might have tickets for the wed game too. So we ended up going to barleycorns again to see if we could get 4 tickets to last night’s game. Is this confusing?! I feel like I’m not explaining myself well…anyways…

Sam and roddy went to barleycorns to get some food and doug and I met them there. Luckily, michelle came through once again and gave us four tickets to the lower section along the 3rd base line! They were $75 tickets that we got for free! The boys tipped her well and doug tipped her on my behalf (see? A guy who won’t let a girl pay. Good.) we got to the game just before the 2nd inning and the cubs were already losing. And it didn’t get better from that stand point. It was an ugly 12-5 defeat by the phillies. However, I had loads of fun at the game hanging out with the boys, eating hot dogs and drinking beer. Since the cubs were losing so badly, loads of people started leaving as early as the 6th inning. We had our eyes on the even lower section that is also guarded. The first usher caught us and wouldn’t let us in the section. So we found another section and slipped right on in as some drunkies were on their way out. We sat for a couple innings in seats right behind the cubs dugout which were about 5 rows up. So much fun!

After the game, we went to few more bars: harry carays, red ivy, and then the cubbie bear where super loud karaoke was going on. after a few drinks, doug and i left the two other boys there and headed back home for the night.

this guy in red was loaded...we all thought he was hitting on doug which we all found hilarious - he kept coming over and pretending to kiss his biceps and be some big huge broad shouldered body builder type guy. then he talked about his gf and how she wants a baby...we were all, hunh?! but he kept coming back over...like 5 or 6 times...so finally i had to get a pic with doug and his admirer and roddy.




look how close we were!


i like this one of me and doug... check out those eyes!




illustrating how close we got...as in front row!