Baseball In The Daytime: 5-18-07
Today, today is Friday. Typically the greedy big-league clubs try and milk every nickel out Friday revenue by playing the game at night. But on the North Side of Chicago, one last vestige of old time baseball remains. When the Cubs installed lights nearly 20 years ago (and tell me that doesn't make you feel old) they were not permitted to play unlimited night games. To find out what the cap is would take actual reasearch, and fuck that. Alls I know is that when the Cubs host a weekend series, they play the Friday game under God's own illumination.
This brings up a quick question: what day of the week was Ferris Bueller's day off? The movie predates the actual lights at Wrigley. Would you go through all that trouble to ditch, would you end up going back to school the next day? It has to be a Friday, right?
Anyway, 2007's first interleague game happens at 12:20 mountain, I assume on WGN (and XM 186, Pat Hughes and Ron Santo on the mic, yo). A couple of lefties take the bump, one overpaid (Ted Lilly) and one soon to be (Mark Buehrle, in the last year of his contract. Should be fun. Sa-wing, batter.
2 comments:
20 years ago would have made you 37, right?
Kyle, you're older than my great-grandma's buckskin doucherag. Don't pretend you don't remember.
I had the commemorative "Wrigley Field, 8/8/88!" poster framed in my room. Right up until I broke it in a drug-induced frenzy. Or maybe the cat knocked it off.
Anyway. Go Cubbies. Soriano isn't a leadoff hitter, thank goodness we (might) seem to be past that...and there's simply no way Ferris went to school the next day.
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