On this the second full day of Olympic coverage, uneven bars specialist Chelsea Memmel wowed the Beijing crowd with...oh, who am I kidding? We came for BASEBALL. And what's better than a double dip in Chicago.Wrigley. Day. Game.
For those of you unfamiliar with baseball, those might be the sweetest three words in the English language. And against their bitter rivals the Cards no less. Holy cow, what a day.
The history, the tradition, the rivalry. And more beer than I have EVER seen 40,000 people consume. By the cup, can and pitcher, beer was guzzled at a rate that would have killed an elephant.
Sadly, it did little to change the outcome of the game. They may go on to win it all, but today the Cubs got rocked. Carlos Zambrano, depite hitting a rare home run, got taggd for four the other way. Cubs lose, 12-3.
In the end, it was all worked out. The fans were great, the food was good and we got to see maybe the best rivalry in the best stadium in baseball.
An Old Style pour, from the can.
Rival fans put their differences aside.
1/1,000,000th of the total wreckage.Now we just need to run across town to catch the Red Sox/White Sox game...
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My first-ever pro ball game was a daytime double header at Wrigley vs. the Astros (this was in '91). I will always have a soft spot in my heart for that stadium and for the Mark Grace rookie card I got in a pack of Topps a few years before.
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