My U.S. Cellular field experience.

[sheetswannabe]

It all started yesterday (Thursday) in Racine Wisconsin. A few days before my friend (die hard Red Sox/Brewers fan) told me he had front row bleacher seats, and asked if I wanted to go with him. Being the baseball fanatic I am, I went. I have nothing against either team, but I lean more towards the Red Sox (Cubs tainted the Chicago name for me). So we figure we could take the Metra from Kenosha to Union Station.

 

So Thursday I go to class (Gateway in Racine), I get out at 225...24 minutes before the train leaves. So, we hurried ourselves over there and got there about 5-10 minutes early, bought our tickets and began our adventure.

 

We went though all the stations, and about time we his Waukegan Illinois, I see a huge black cloud. After all the rain and storms, I figure this will be bad. My friends girlfriend calls him (she lives in Illinois) and tells him there is a Tornado WARNING for our area. 15 minutes later, the train slows, the wind picks up, and it downpours. So were stopped in between 2 stations in this forest, as we watch the trees fall and lean. They decide we need to get moving so they have workers go and cut the trees on the track and we start moving. The next area we arrive in was somewhere by North Chicago. The town looked like it had been through hell. Trees down everywhere, extreme flooding (at this point it was still windy and raining very hard), we could see poles down and wires in water, backed up traffic everywhere. We stalled there for about 30 minutes as they cleared off the track ahead.

 

After we thought it was all over, another storm hit us around Evanston, so we then again stopped. Once we did get moving we couldn't go fast at all because of 2 reasons. They were checking for more trees and the railroad lights were out and the cross bars were torn down. We finally started moving and arrived at Union station at 6:20 pm. A 3 1/2 hour ride. We then walked 8 blocks in the pouring rain to find out the L was having problems, thankfully we only had to wait about 10 minutes under cover.

 

When we arrived to Sox-35th we got outside, and it stopped raining, but still very windy and lightning. All of a sudden when we were just about to start walking from the L station to the park people started running. It started pouring harder then Ive ever seen it rain. Me and my friend thought it would be fun to run to the stadium because were dorks. Big Mistake. After running from the station to the park (Id say about 3 blocks) we were completely drenched.

 

We finally got in to the park, we walked around and took a few pics of it raining and how wet the field was. We pretty much thought no chance at a game. Just to say something about U.S. Cellular Field, it is a very nice park and the bleachers (and seats because their outfield is mostly seats) are very cool because you sit so low to the game. We noticed the rain was slowing down and the wind was calming down.

 

Finally to our suprise the field crew came out, Beckett and Varitek ran to the bullpen and started warming up, we were finally about to see our game! After trying to squeege off the tarp on the infield(which the grounds crew was doing for about 20 minutes) it started to downpour again. Then about 10 minutes later it stopped, and they looked like they were going to try one more time..Then rain again! Finally they called the game at about 9:45 or so.

 

We couldnt go today because my friend has work and I have to help my sisters husband build a shed. So 2 seats at 40 dollars each were wasted. After it was all done and through, we could seriously look back and say we did have a lot of fun, but just not the kind we expected.

 

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