I think I was complaining last week that the world was too small and I needed some big city fun. Boy did I have some fun 
I went up to Chi-town with SternO this last weekend for a classic Chicago Cubs game; they lost, to the Nationals. Wrigley was an experience. I’ve been to quite a few stadiums and arenas, but Wrigley was much more low key than any place than I have been before. There was no big screen, just 3 - 2′ x 20′ tickers that would flash the score and the famous hand operated score in center field. Hot dogs and beers were cheaper but small than what you would get from Busch Stadium. $5.75 for an Old Style; I’ll let you be the judge of that. Dogs were 5 bucks. But nothing to the foot long from St. Louis.
Advertising was limited to the electronic tickers on the field else where inside the stadium Cingular was stamped promptly on about everything. I think the orange symbol was even on the bathroom sign.
That reminds me, the bathrooms. Back when Busch Stadium still had artifical turf all the guy bathrooms (don’t know too much about the womens) were troughs (be hell of a way for women to go to the bathroom). Wrigley has stuck with the communial bathroom. Can we say, “target practice.”
I enjoyed the game, and the eye candy, and the mullets and other assorted blue dressed creatures. Great time!
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After the ball game
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After the ball game is a whole nother’ story.
A. White boy dancing to the highest degree.
B. Stern disappeared for an unknown amount of time.
C. A round of Jaeger bombs were about as much as what I make at the bar some nights.
D. Cabbies.
E. C-B ….. EVIL
F. My southern accent.
G. GREEK WOMEN are HOT!
H. Greek bars at 5 AM - nothing you’ll experience in this town.
I. I, just wanted to go to sleep, ohh wait the sun is rising.
The End.
Hi All
Well, at least the white boy dancing was alleviated somewhat by the dancing ability of the girls we were with, eh Shoo?
And hey, fist taps all around…not to mention the countless times you decided to drill me in the shoulder at Barleycorn
What are you a girly man? Mr. Personal Trainer?
Shoo, it’s awefully sad that you’re trying to find faults in wrigley field by complaining about the size of their hot dogs and the cheapness of their beer (hello, that’s a good thing)… Busch is an overpriced soon to be crap pile(compared to wrigley). I’m sure the new stadium will be the same, just more expensive. Wrigley’s beautiful and full of tradition. I would kill to be able to go to a wrigley game this year. You should have just enjoyed the experience…
Ya it’s also falling apart.
But I did enjoy it.
And btw, this was a comparison not a critizal entry.
Okay, maybe not criticizim, but you definitely showed your favoritism…. But that’s why you have your own web page, right? So preach on, Brother Shoo. You know I just had to get on ya a little bit, right????
But i truly believe that anyone that has been to both Wrigley and Busch, has to admit that watching a game in the Friendly Confines is far, far better than watching a game in the Gateway City!! The beer IS cheaper, but smaller. But Why? In the STL, you get a $9 beer that is as big as 2 $5.50 Old Styles in the Windy City. BUT…your beer in Busch gets warm before the beer in Chicago. So it doesn’t taste as good. So that is why you get almost 2 beers for the price of one. So you can savor the flavor!!!
vyaxg ayxja
“So preach on, Brother Shoo. You know I just had to get on ya a little bit, right????”
I gotta admit, I read that as “I got on the preacher man, brother.”
Oh, and as far as friendly confines, those fickle ass cub fans BOO poor Corey Patterson everytime he gets up to bat. REAL friendly.
Recall when Larry Walker struck out his first time at bat in St. Louis as a Card? Standing O.
Now THAT…that’s called class.
Stern, your humor amuses me at 8:50 AM… I believe that’s all I’ll say about that one. Anyways, I was just trying to make the point that even though Shoo’s point of view is both skewed and misguided, it’s HIS website, so he get to write whatever he wants.
You don’t know me….
The “you don’t know me” comment was a hat tipper to the Maury show. Do you think we could all get on? We all lead pretty crazy, drama-full lives. I think we’d make excellent Maury guests!
You Don’t Gnome Me!!
Amen sister. Amen.
Just that I would let you all know that!!!
She ate her shoe.
Guess who is getting hammered and going to Greek town?!?! AGAIN!!!
Ohhh say its me, say its me??!?!?
Mr. Shoo, when did you get to be so exciting and dangerous like Indiana Jones? You stud.
Don’t forget to bring your own sheep this time, Teddy.
I keep some sheep in a storage locker over there…
I keep some sheep in a storage locker over there…
Nothing to say, interisting point of view.
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John from monaco hotels (http://www.go-monaco.com) ***