Game #46 / Restaurant #31 – Ñ

Game #46 / Restaurant #31 – Ñ

Friday, September 20, 2013
Heather, Trish, Lyletta, & Julie

Cubs vs. Braves. 
Last homestand of the year. It’s almost over. Mixed feelings – I love baseball and the Cubs (although I’m sure it doesn’t always seem that way..), so this signals the true end of summer for me. Boo hoo. But games like today make me somewhat happy that the end is near : )

Scott Baker on the mound today for the Cubs (he of the $5 million, one-year contract making his 3rd start of the year…) vs. ex-Cub lefty Paul Maholm. It was windy and overcast today. So just waiting for the homers to start. Cubs are 0-4 against the Braves this year, and their magic # to clinch the division going into today was 2. Meaning they can celebrate on the field on Saturday if they beat the Cubs. On the pre-game, Dale said something like “it’s good for the young kids to see other teams clinch/celebrate so they get a taste of what it could be like.” Huh???

Braves hit 2 homers and the Cubs hit 3 (Castro, Murphy and Navarro). According to Al Yellon of bleedcubbieblue, Navaro’s homer broke a window in a post office minivan parked outside the park:

https://twitter.com/bleedcubbieblue/status/381159178514857984/photo/1


Game was tied 5-5 going into the 9th – kudos to the Cubs for coming back and tying it up. In comes Kevin Gregg. He started the season surprisingly well, but has returned to the Kevin Gregg from 2009 that we all know and love. He gave up 4 runs in the 9th – walk, out, walk, out, single, single, walk, double, out. Ouch.

After the game, apparently Kevin Gregg went on a rant to the media, and Theo got pissed and called him into Sveum’s office threatening to release him on Saturday. Gregg apologized and then even went up to the press box to tell the media his apology. This season is so weird… I guess the Drama gives us something to talk about.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0921-cubs-braves-chicago-20130921,0,3476700.story

Cubs have lost 22 of their last 29 home games. Yikes. After the game, we went to …. Bernie’s! Where we sat at the back bar and hung w/Lloyd until Wigs, Kevin & JO showed up. Trish & John & Lyletta all headed home and we went to dinner at Ñ. I had to copy/paste that from yelp, since I can’t do the tilde in Word. Or at least I don’t know how. This is an Argentinian place was over on Elston in the Avondale neighborhood.

Atmosphere was dark. Seriously, it was really, really dark in here. We felt very hip. Until we had to pull out our assistive lights on the phones to read the menu. Not very crowded at all. Heather & Wigs got fancy drinks and Kevin & I got a bottle of wine. We started with the 5 empanada appetizer and they were delicious. Just like at Tango Sur on Southport.

Milanesa – breaded beef seasoned “la napilotana” (topped w/ham, cheese & tomato sauce – Kev had that) while Wigs had it “al caballo” (fried egg on top). Kev said it was good, but not great. Heather had Ravioli. I can’t find the description on the website – maybe it was this: potato dumplings in tomato cream sauce. I had the Tilapia. I thought it was good.

Recap:

Cubs Lose 9-5

My season record: Visitors 30, Cubs 16 – this is really awful.

No parking today.