Today's View from the Unemployment Line
With all the recent hurricane activity in Florida, the Marlins and the Expos moved their two game from South Florida to Chicago for the next to day. Not able to resist the novelty, and given the opportunity to donate $5 to hurricane relief, I headed to the New Comiskey on the South Side to watch today's misplaced match-up.
The Marlins were the home team, and the game was produced as if we were in South Florida, complete with Billy the Marlin in the stands, and all the between innings Marlins hype. It was definitely a low budget version of the real thing, but being so, it still beat the hockey arena atmosphere that most Sox games produce in the same venue.
Attendance was pretty low. The official figure was 4,003 and that sounds about right. From the pictures below, you'll get a nice feel. The crowd was so small, I could clearly hear fans behind the third base dugout yelling at the third base coach while I sat behind the right field foul pole! It was not a good day to be the "visiting" team and commit three errors that contributed to 6 game-breaking runs. Attendees appeared to be mainly college students, riff-raff, and the seriously unemployed (myself included).
The Expos looked like winners until they transformed into the Bad News Bears in the bottom of the 8th, committing the three errors that doomed them to the L column. Armando Benitez appeared for the Marlins in the 9th, and promptly gave up a monster homer to Tony Bautista. Looked like the Benitez I remember from the O's. He recovered (unlike with Bmore) and went on to shut down any potential rally. The fans filed slowly to the El, and for many, it was on to the nightcap at Wrigley.
Probably the best part of the game was the between innings tribute to Steve Bartman on the JumboTron. Even though Chicago was gracious enough to host the game, Florida couldn't resist the chance to rub it in. Somehow, I don't think White Sox disapproved.
Just another nice view from the unemployment line, Chicago- (or is that Miami-?) style.
The Marlins were the home team, and the game was produced as if we were in South Florida, complete with Billy the Marlin in the stands, and all the between innings Marlins hype. It was definitely a low budget version of the real thing, but being so, it still beat the hockey arena atmosphere that most Sox games produce in the same venue.
Attendance was pretty low. The official figure was 4,003 and that sounds about right. From the pictures below, you'll get a nice feel. The crowd was so small, I could clearly hear fans behind the third base dugout yelling at the third base coach while I sat behind the right field foul pole! It was not a good day to be the "visiting" team and commit three errors that contributed to 6 game-breaking runs. Attendees appeared to be mainly college students, riff-raff, and the seriously unemployed (myself included).
The Expos looked like winners until they transformed into the Bad News Bears in the bottom of the 8th, committing the three errors that doomed them to the L column. Armando Benitez appeared for the Marlins in the 9th, and promptly gave up a monster homer to Tony Bautista. Looked like the Benitez I remember from the O's. He recovered (unlike with Bmore) and went on to shut down any potential rally. The fans filed slowly to the El, and for many, it was on to the nightcap at Wrigley.
Probably the best part of the game was the between innings tribute to Steve Bartman on the JumboTron. Even though Chicago was gracious enough to host the game, Florida couldn't resist the chance to rub it in. Somehow, I don't think White Sox disapproved.
Just another nice view from the unemployment line, Chicago- (or is that Miami-?) style.
posted by Mike C | 6:10 PM
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