After not attending an event for 5 days, I am going to the White Sox game today at 12:05 pm CT. The White Sox rarely have Saturday afternoon games (unless they are on national television), but play a Saturday matinee on the first home stand of the season because of the cold Chicago weather.
From experience, my budget for today’s game is $10. We’ll see how it goes.

The combination of the White Sox being home and my working about an hours drive north of Wrigley Field has kept my sporting events attendance at bay this week. Instead of attending, I began planning the hotel portion of our upcoming trip to Switzerland and Austria for Euro Cup 2008.
We are spending 4 nights in Switzerland and 3 nights in Vienna, Austria. Since we have more time and flexibility in Switzerland I chose to spend my time researching Vienna hotels.
We already have tickets for the quarterfinal match in Vienna, Austria …

We had planned to eat brunch at Uncommon Ground on the corner of Clark St. and Grace Ave. But, by the time we arrived (12:30 pm), it was a 45 minute wait. Since the Cubs game started at 1:20 pm, we decided to eat elsewhere and chose Yak-zies.
Since we were with Nicole’s cousin, Gina Skreens, we needed to buy an extra ticket. I thought we could buy a ticket for under face value, but the warm weather increased demand. The game was not sold out but the cheapest seat at …

The original plan yesterday was to only go to the Cubs game. I went with my colleague Charles Merritt. The Cubs won a back and forth game 9-7. Fukudome put the Cubs in the lead 7-5 with a clutch two out double in the bottom of the 7th inning bringing on supportive cheers from Wrigley faithful.
After the game, Charles and I went to the bar on the Northwest corner of Sheffield and Byron. I don’t know the name of the place but it has an “Old Style” sign outside of …

I am going to my 4th Cubs game this week as the Cubs host the Astros today at 12:05 pm. The weather is actually supposed to be nice with highs in the low 60’s!

Instead of going to work, I worked from home yesterday (at least I was working) and attended the final game of the series between the Brewers and Cubs. Instead of Kerry Wood starting and Ryan Dempster closing, Dempster started and Wood earned his first career save.
The Cubs avoided the series sweep beating the Brewers 6-2 in a cold day at Wrigley Field.

It was not a shutout but it was impressive. The Blackhawks jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period and never looked back winning 6-2 to keep themselves in the playoff hunt.
I had bought $10 tickets ahead of time since I knew student tickets (and the game) would sell out – which they did.
After the game, we tried to take one of the bar shuttles that stop at the corner of Wood St. and Madison Ave. but the West End Bar & Grill shuttle was already full. We …

The first game of the day passed without much fanfare. The Cubs lost 8-2 and the Brewers batted their pitcher 8th for the second straight game – a tactic they plan to use most of the season. The main news of the day was that the Cubs clubhouse attendant, Yosh Kawano, announced he would retire after 65 years with the club.
Now we’re off to see if the Blackhawks can post another shutout.

For the first time this year, I will attend two games in one day. The Cubs are hosting the Brewers at 1:20 pm and the Blackhawks host the Red Wings at 7:30 pm tonight. Weekday afternoon Cubs games means I arrive at work as early as possible in order to get to the game on time.

For the first time since 1996 I attended Major League Baseball’s Opening Day which was also at Wrigley Field. It was also the first regular season game I have attended in March.
The start of the game was delayed for about 40 minutes. During the delay I sold my parking spot for $60 – making up for the $60 I paid in Los Angeles Saturday night.
I was hoping to see a 0-0 extra inning game when Milwaukee scored three runs in the top of the 9th. But …