Drink some Gatorade, put some dirt on it, he'll be fine...

Awesome launch into the summer – a Cubs sweep of the cross-town scumbags and their low class road show!! Being at the final game of a three game sweep is a beautiful thing in general, but when those brooms are pointed at the south-siders in their lovely grey and black attire, it is all the more satisfying.


Cousin Jamie came to meet me for the game and we got in just in time to see the first pitch of Ryan Dempster’s (suddenly frequent) gem of a game. I mistakenly lead us to really nice seats right on the first row of the right field upper deck, naturally drawn towards Fukudome as I am. During the Red’s series back in April I made my first t-shirt jersey purchase, due to the fact that I had caught the Fukudome fever. The guy is a right-hander that bats lefty for the sole reason that it is closer to first base from the left batters box – so fundamentally sound!

When we sat down the couple next to us asked where we got the tickets, I said we bought them, and they seemed puzzled. Apparently they and their friends have these as season tickets – which struck me as odd because the dude had a White Sox hat on. He also had a Disco Biscuits shirt on, which left me very, very confused – as if I saw George Bush helping up an old woman who had fallen down – I’d want to throw a tomato at him, but I might wait just a minute…Eventually their friends showed up and we were moved back to our intended seats.

Our new row mates were a cool couple, even though the woman had a PINK Cubs hat on, she knew her shit and had some great things to say, the title of this entry being the beaut of the night – said after Fukudome was hit on the back of the elbow with a pitch. Without recapping the whole game, there were some clutch walks, a few homeruns, two very successful hit and runs, some stolen bases and generally a clinic on how to win a baseball game (maybe Ozzie learned something?) This team is good, really good, the best I have seen in my time as a Cubs fan (which happens to coincide with exactly how old I am). We are going to win the World Series, not without caveat, but it will happen this year.
Alright, flight to Miami is about to take off, here I go……