Dallas and I spent Easter at Wrigley Field with Todd and Kelly watching the Cubs lose to the Dodgers. I think the Cubs are now 11-10 now. Not that surprising, really!
We met up with Kelly and Todd at the new Sports Corner, which I’d never been to. It used to be kind of a dingy, dive bar. Then they demolished it and rebuilt it and now it’s a nice multi-level space with a rooftop beer garden. The old Sports Corner used to be constantly packed to the gills on game days. The new one was not, but the whole city was so empty yesterday because of the holiday. Who knows how it is on a normal day.
At Wrigley we played “the cup game.” The first rule of the cup game is to empty a cup, i.e. chug your beer. After that, everyone puts $2 in the cup. Each player takes turns holding the cup then passing it. Each turn lasts as long as a baseball player is at bat. If your batter gets an out, you have to put a dollar in the cup and pass it to the next person. If your hitter reaches base, you get to take a dollar out of the cup. If your batter gets a double, you get to take $2 from the cup. If your batter gets a triple, you take $3 from the cup. If your batter gets a home run then you get to take all the money from the cup and everyone has to re-ante up $2. I think that’s how it went. Might not be the exact rules. Anyway, I lost about $3 on this game and no one was a big winner, so we used the money to pay for drinks and food later on.
After the 7th inning stretch we went to Bird’s Nest. I don’t usually like leaving before the game is over, but the Cubs were getting killed and it was cold outside. Todd kept talking about how great the wings were at Bird’s Nest. I am not a big wings fan at all. When Dallas orders them, I might eat one.. if they look meaty.. but that’s about my limit. Well, maybe the Bird’s Nest wings really are that good, or maybe it was all the Miller Lite, but I ate probably 6 wings, setting all sorts of personal wing-eating records! I liked that the wings were not soggy at all, very crispy. And the sauce was delicious.
This was the first game I’d been to at Wrigley since 2009! Wow, crazy. I went to a Cubs game last year, but it was in Milwaukee. Nice to be back in the friendly confines.
