Item to check off: See the Cubs play a game at Wrigley Field.
Class ended early today, around eleven in the morning. When I got back to my room I caught up on e-mail real fast and then started thinking about "how I would spend the rest of the day". It occurred to me that at the beginning of the week, I'd been thinking about catching a game, but had vetoed today for some reason. I couldn't remember if it was because it was a day game and I was expecting to still be in class, or if it was because the Cubs were on the road.
Turns out, they were playing the Mets, at home. Ticketmaster told me the game was sold out, but throwing caution to the wind, I ran down to the train station and hauled my ass up to Wrigley. Turns out, it wasn't completely sold out. When I asked the box office person what the "best he could do for me" was, he happily took my cash in exchange for a field-level box seat. And there I sat enjoying the game until shortly after the skies opened up and rain poured down. Wanting to get back to my hotel before the trains were crowded with both Cubs fans and commuters, I took that as a sign, and so I bailed mid-game (something I could easily do since I had very little "invested" in the game, emotionally).
Wrigley is, frankly, a beautiful field. It's not the Stadium, that's for sure, but as one of the oldest remaining baseball parks from the first days of the sport, it was easy to feel the energy and history that fill that place.
/me jealous
BTW, you now have a new todo: sit in the /bleachers/ during a Cubs game at Wrigley.
I'd say get drunk in the bleachers during a Cubs game at Wrigley, but that would be redundant.
Man, I was like a 15 minute WALK from being able to catch a White Sox/LAA game when I was there in May, but didn't have any time. Closest I'll get to an MLB game this year.