I don't live there, but I made a 24 hour non-stop road trip to see the Cubs-'stros at Wrigley when I was in college. I sat in the bleachers right on the ivy in right field and I agree with what you say; I was severely disappointed by almost every aspect of the experience. I had to park something like 20 blocks away, even though I arrived at about 8:30-9AM for a 12:30 game time, and the supposedly rabid bleacher fans were more interested in getting drunk and eating hot dogs than what was happening on the field.
I saw that and crapped. Can you imagine? I wrote this season off a long long time ago. making up 6 games in 50ish games left.......it's not realistic, but 36-10 hmmmm where have I heard that before?
I bet we could do it to the Texans pre-season thread. It got quite here at work all of the sudden, wanna try? I'll take the pro-VY stance just to shake things up.
I've done it several times before. Mainly for the reason I did it last night. The thread got off track so I locked to send a message. Apparently there were some people that didn't read my posts on page 4 and started their own thread. I stated i thought fairly clearly that I was locking it up to stop the crap that was going on and I would unlock it if the game resumed last night or if not then this morning. That is what I did. Now back on topic. I thought the game should have been called way earlier than it was. When you put players on the field and they are getting jumpy because of the lightning you are asking for trouble. Whoever decided to keep it going was putting the some serious liability on the MLB. If a player fan or ump had gotten struck by the lightning it would have been a huge problem. when my teams are on the field and there is a weather threat we keep a meter handy. if it reads a certain distance from us we leave the field, no questions asked. What happened last night was pretty ridiculous.
Thanks to the umpires' absurd decision not to call the game, Geary hurt his groin again. http://blogs.chron.com/baseballblog/archives/2008/08/umpires_blew_it_2.html
Why is Wandy so ****ing inconsistent? I can't even remember the scouting report on him when he came up. Was he supposed to be a good major league pitcher?
Word...I was so worried, I created two un-official threads... Just to reiterate, Berkman jumping scared was ghey...that is all...
Berkman did what? When? (aycs, I didn't see it) Man, apparently Chicago is where Lance goes to embarrass himself.
Last night, when there was a lightning strike nearby, Berkman jumped out of fear and ran to the dugout before the umps even made the call to suspend the game. I don't blame him though. Those umps were being freakin' tards.
