a pathetic end to a long night[yet strangely satisfying]

Those of you who know me know how big of a Cubs fan I am. When I was living in Kansas City I never really had many opprotunities to see the Cubs play, as the Royals are in the AL and the Cubs are in the NL. Now that I live in NYC I have the once a year chance to see the Cubs play the Mets for a three game series at Shea Stadium. Needless to say, when I found this out several months ago, I immediately went to the Mets webpage and bought tickets to see the game that took place this past Wednesday night. For the past few weeks I had been anticipating the game, hopefully to see my Cubbies take on the surging Mets.



After a day of rain, I got to the stadium to see this view from my seat, where I sat for three hours waiting for the rain to stop. It was 10pm before the rain stopped, and I was quite depressed at the thought of not getting to see my team play in the one opprotunity I would have all year. At 10:15pm the game finally began in front of a very empty Shea Stadium. I only paid $9 for my ticket, which on a normal day would have allowed me to watch the game from the nosebleed section, but due to the misfortune[or luck] of rain and a delay, I took a chance and ran down to the lower section of the stadium and took my seat 7 rows behind the Cubs dugout! I could not wait to see the Cubs pound the Mets after destroying them 8-1 the night before.



But of course, the game was a typical Cubs disaster. Into the 7th inning they had only one hit and were losing 4-0. Being that it was 12:30am and I had to work the next day, I took my tired and weary Cubs soul and headed for the #7 train, content that I had gotten to see my Cubbies play, but disappointed in their poor performance at my one time this year to see them play. They ended up losing 8-1 with only 2 hits.



Another exciting experience that I had recently was a trip to the NYC Ballet to watch the performance of Romeo and Juliet. Now before anyone makes a smartass comment, my main reason for going was on a date with my girlfriend who loves ballet. Anyways, The show was pretty good and I had a great time. It is always fun dressing up and watching all the people out enjoying a wonderful spring night in New York City.


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