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Cubs/Sox Series.
By Mike | May 20, 2007
I usually hate going to the Cubs/Sox games. I don’t enjoy them at all. You have to put up with drunken Sox (and Cubs) fans bickering for hours and then most likely listen to Sox fans chirp about winning the game/series/World Series. There’s only so much of that you can take. The joy of the Cubs’ wins in these games in no way offsets the misery of the losses, and I feel like the losses are far more plentiful to begin with.
You can’t enjoy these games. If the Sox are winning, you’re miserable. If it’s tied, you have a sinking feeling that at any moment the Sox will be winning and you’re miserable. If the Cubs are up you have that very same sinking feeling that the Cubs are going to choke and you are even more miserable. The only time you are happy is after the Cubs get the final out in the ninth or if they have a monstrous lead, although even then you are still nervous that they will choke.
Despite my dislike for these games, I ended up with four tickets from my brother who works for the Sox. I went with my wife and a friend who happens to be a Sox fan and his wife. It was the first time I’ve sat in the Bleachers since the very early Eighties when I was a kid and my dad would take me. Back then the Cubs were so bad and the stadium so empty I would bring my toy cars and run them across the bleachers. At least that’s what my Dad would tell me. I don’t remember. Or I’ve successfully blocked it from my memory.
Even though they ended up losing the game today, it wasn’t that bad. I think that since the Cubs had already won the series I wasn’t as concerned with them losing and having to listen to Sox fans brag for the next month. That being said it was a pretty boring game up until the eight when the Sox unloaded. Its too bad Carlos couldn’t have worked out of that inning because the Cubs came back in their half. They just couldn’t match the seven runs they had just given up. I guess the one positive thing to take away from that is that the Cubs are starting to score some late inning runs which I don’t think they’ve done all season.
There wasn’t nearly as much bickering between Cubs and Sox fans as there has been in previous years. There was one loud obnoxious Sox fan right behind us, and some guy with a “Sweep” sign in left center, but other than that the crowd wasn’t too rowdy. Maybe the sub 50 degree weather had something to do with that.
I don’t have anything else special to report about the game, other than I’m 0-2 in Cubs winning at games I’ve been to and 0-3 for good weather, suffering through two cold Cubs games and a rained out Sox game so far this year. I only have one more game planned, another Cubs/Sox game, but I’m guessing the weather will be nicer by then.
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