sometimes

i agree.

me and shorty are heading to the bleachers tonight. hopefully the cubs won't make me weep with another performance like yesterday’s. i'm figuring the beer and hot dogs will be free flowing.

a lot of people complain that wrigley field is old and uncomfortable. a lot of these people are sox fans, but that’s unimportant. what makes wrigley such a great place to see a baseball game is that baseball is old, so i feel like a part of history when i watch baseball in a stadium with as much history as wrigley. stan musial and ernie banks and dozens of hall of famers played on the exact same field that I’m staring down on. i love the look of brick and ivy and wrought iron. i like the fact that i'm close to the field. i like the fact that it can be a little dank at times.

i really don't enjoy going to see games at newer stadiums as much. i went to a game at cinergy in cincinatti and it was only okay. the short bursts of pop songs and the people with the t-shirt guns seemed to signify an admission that the world is governed by the short attention span. but wrigley hasn't done that. there's no 'genie in a bottle' between innings, only an organ. no pounding animated graphics, only the scores from every major league game being played. no t-shirt guns, just ronnie woo-woo. it makes me feel like the game is the same no matter what joe morgan says. and god do i hate joe morgan.

for those of you who neither enjoy nor tolerate nor understand sports, look at it this way. for me, seeing baseball in wrigley is like seeing your favorite band at your favorite small club rather than at the nearest football stadium. it puts it on a human scale. it just feels right.

enough babbling about baseball. i know it doesn't really matter, but you have to pass the time somehow. i should work.