Wednesday we had tickets to the Cubbies game at Wrigley, where they took on the Dodgers. We were looking forward to Wrigley, and Chicago in general but it was awfully tough to leave Cincinnati because we had such a good time. We were staying with our good friend, Aric, who is in a PhD program at the University of Chicago. Matt was meeting us for the Cubs game and Alex was meeting us the next day to visit and see Chicago.
We got into Chicago around 1; picked up Matt from Midway airport; met up with Aric who showed us back to his apartment, a single room studio. After grabbing some well known Chicago chicken we passed right out while Aric went back to work before the game.
We headed down to Wrigleyville and the area around the stadium was buzzing for the game. Scalpers were very abundant, not being discrete at all, walking around with stacks of tickets. We got there around 6:30 for a 7:10 game so we just went right in.
Obviously Wrigley is an old park, similar to Fenway, but after being at all these newer parks, it seemed lacking in some areas. Just walking into the stadium, it felt like the whole place was pretty enclosed. Low ceilings and not very wide corridors but what can you do with a park built in 1914. Once we got to our seats, we had a giant pole in front of us, blocking from the front of the mound to the front of the plate, which isnt the worst but still annoying.
As for the actual game, we all agreed we saw probably the two worst defensive left fielders in all of baseball, Manny and Soriano. Jamula was getting so frustrated with their lack of effort on plays that he wanted to go down to the dugout and start yelling at the coaches that he could play better out there than they were, which he could. There were a bunch of other errors too, which gave the game a weird, not professional feel.
To top it all off we were at the game where the lights just randomly went out in the middle of play. When it initially happened I thought there were going to be fireworks or something like that. The power was not out anywhere else and not even all the lights were out. I still dont really know what happened. We used the time to go explore the stadium. Ushers were letting people walk freely and everyone was out of their seats.
The fans in Chicago are notorious as well. We had heard so much about how roudy they would be and they did not disappoint. It probably helped that the Cubbies are near the bottom of the NL central and the Dodgers went up early in the game. People liked heckling both teams just as much but the fan favorite of the day was defiantly Manny. He is so easy to hate.
All in all my experience at Wrigley was cool. We got to see a classic match up at a classic stadium. We even got to see a ball get stuck in the ivy!
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