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Had a lot of fun in Chicago. A huge contrast in the two stadiums and the fans in them!
US Cellular Field is very modern, high tech, and glitzy. I hope the fans we were surrounded by are not typical Sox fans, because we were surrounded by a lot of loud mouthed rude drunks. The people sitting right in front of us were a nice couple from Iowa who had come just to watch a big league baseball game, and were not particularly fans of either the Sox or the Indians. By the end of the game they were cheering for the Indians because they could not deal with the drunken, nasty Sox fans sitting around us!
The game at Wrigley Field was relaxed and fun, in huge contrast to the Sox game. There were a lot more children there, and while people were drinking, it was because it was a hot day and the beer was cold - it was light social drinking, not drinking to get drunk! I loved the old fashioned organ music - it reminded me of listening to Tigers games and Red Wings hockey games on the radio when I was a little girl. Rather than being nasty to the visting fans, the Cubbies fans gave us Tigers fans more good natured ribbing (along the lines of "Well, your Lions still suck!"). We had lunch before the game at this great sports bar called the Cubby Bear Lounge, across the street from the stadium. Huge portions of simple, well prepared food, and they even had their own house brand of Cubby Bear Root Beer!
I truly hate to say this, being an American League girl and always rooting for the American League team in the World Series and the All Star Game (yes, even the Yankees!) - but if I lived in Chicago I think I would be a Cubbies fan, at least going by the inital visits to the two stadiums and seeing the two groups of fans in action. ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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