eventful weekend

here's a brief recap of the fun events of the past 4 days: thursday i basked in the glory of correctly picking pickler's demise; beanes grew immune to benadryl and scratched half his face off, terry solidified his grasp of the group on survivor. friday - i went to the er at 6:30am because i thought i was having a heart attack, got to work at 9:30 and everyone laughed at me; finished season 2 of the sopranos. saturday - woke up at 6 to clean the house for our first pre-game bbq of the year; downed the first sam's summer of the season; cooked up drunken salami, egg and cheese sandwiches; sat in less than pleasant weather for 2 hours watching the cubs suck more than i've ever seen them suck (granted i only moved to chicago in 2001); had a few beers and wings at ginger's; night cap at diner grill. can you tell i'm not concerned about my ekg results?

speaking of wrigley, i have to say i like the bleacher renovations. it seems like a more modern park now with the vendor carts and what not, but still feels like the old bleachers. the biggest improvement, at least for me, is the fact that they raised the level of concrete behind the actual bleachers. in the old bleachers, if you wanted to lean on the bleacher behind you, your butt would sag down and after about 4 minutes it was uncomfortable. with the added height, it's completely comfortable. i suppose it helps that everyone left early because the cubs sucked so bad. i can't say i remember them losing 2 games by a combined 25-2 margin - pretty pathetic. i think the great steve stone diagnosed their problem correctly 3 years ago - the cubs cannot hit soft tossing lefties. good thing we still have the great sarge matthews and gene clines and dusty baker working to fix those problems from 2002...

MO