Thursday, May 2, 2013

Game 9 – Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Cubs vs. Padres 7:05 – Heather, Wigs, Kevin, Julie

May Day!  Another beautiful night in Chicago.  Temps were in the 70’s today/tonight.  Our friend Jon (fellow season ticketholder & my spring training pal) also showed up with Girl #1.  I think we need to start tracking his Girl #’s too – I’ve never seen him with the same girl twice at a game. 

Corey, er Scott Feldman was pitching, and he pitched a gem (even in his baggy pants).  This was a fun game to watch.  At one point he had struck out 7 in a row, and retired 18 in a row.  He ended up with a complete game (his first one - after arguing with Sveum to stay in the game at 100 pitches), and had a career high 12 K’s.  And he had a double! 

The Padres had former Cub Andrew Cashner on the mound, making his first start as a visitor at Wrigley.  We got Rizzo as a result of the Cashner  trade.  I’m thinking we got the better end of this deal.

Game Tidbits:
·         Feldman was born in Kailua, HI and is 6’7”.  His salary is $6,000,000. 
·         We've been on Ivy-watch all week, and last night Wigs spotted one tiny little ivy leaf so far.  I tried to get a picture but it was too far away.  I should’ve had Wigs take one with his new fancy phone.
·         Fans started the wave in each game this week.  Monday night, it was in the 6th.  Tuesday and night was in the 5th.  So in the 3rd, Wigs says “wave in the 4th tonight”.  And sure enough, right on cue in the 4th inning, the dumb fans tried to start the wave.  Monday and Tuesday night, the wave got stopped by the Cubs hitting a home run.  Last night, it seemed to be more of a lack of interest.  No wave-ending HR.
·         Kevin got side-tracked trying to figure out if a pitcher has ever hit for the cycle.  It was some dude from 1888.
·         Jon was talking about seeing something on Yahoo ranking the Stadium Beer Prices.  I found this link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/beer-prices-at-every-major-league-baseball-game-sports-chart-of-the-day-2013-4

Although I think they need to break this down by cost per ounce so we can really gauge the pricing.  Fine Business Insider, I’ll do this for you (using your data):

Rank
Team
oz
cost
cost/ounce
1
Red Sox
12
7.25
0.60
2
Cards
12
6.75
0.56
3
Blue Jays
14
7.34
0.52
4
Nats
16
8.25
0.52
5
Yankees
12
6.00
0.50
6
Mets
12
5.75
0.48
7
Mariners
12
5.50
0.46
8
Reds
12
5.50
0.46
9
Braves
16
7.25
0.45
10
Cubs
16
7.25
0.45
11
Giants
16
6.75
0.42
12
Rays
12
5.00
0.42
13
Tigers
12
5.00
0.42
14
Royals
16
6.50
0.41
15
White Sox
16
6.50
0.41
16
Marlins
20
8.00
0.40
17
Dodgers
16
6.25
0.39
18
Brewers
16
6.00
0.38
19
O's
18
6.75
0.38
20
Rockies
16
6.00
0.38
21
Twins
20
7.50
0.38
22
Philly
21
7.75
0.37
23
A's
14
5.00
0.36
24
Astros
14
5.00
0.36
25
Padres
14
5.00
0.36
26
Pirates
16
5.50
0.34
27
Indians
12
4.00
0.33
28
Rangers
16
5.00
0.31
29
Dbacks
14
4.00
0.29
30
Angels
16
4.50
0.28





 Looks like we need to hit the Angels park after all this year!!
Funniest thing of the night:  drunk guy in front row with his box of nachos who was really unsteady and kind of waving his nachos around.  I said “I really want him to drop his nachos.”  Sure enough, 5 minutes later, he did.  Nachos into the basket, and chips onto the field.  We were cracking up.  He eventually got tossed, but I'm not sure why, because it wasn't until 10-15 minutes after the nachos. 
Here’s the box and the cheese in the basket:
Here’s the chips on the field.  Hahahahaha. 

Recap:
Cubs win 6-2!!!
Weather was beautiful and warm.
Trish & John Parking Update: $20 and $25.  From JO:  One was only $20 as the driver haggled a bit, and I think the alley parking operation just north of us (between Eddy and Addison/Racine and Lakewood) was only charging $20, so I took it as a 'bird in the hand'

Jon Girl Count:  1

My season record:  Visitors 5, Cubs 4
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