June 24

We made the short four-hour trip from Detroit to Chicago. Philly, Milwaukee, KC and this park are the only games we parked at the game. The last hour was through Chicago traffic at two in the afternoon. You think rush hour was a few hours off, but it’s always rush hour in Chicago.

Cellular Field was probably the least interesting of all the parks we have been to up to this point. There is not really anything outstanding about this park compared to the others. With only half the seats filled for this game, there certainly was an emptiness to the stadium.

We sat in the third deck behind home plate. This has been a popular spot for us in these stadiums. Cellular’s third deck does not overhang the deck below, so one sits a bit farther back than the rest of the stadiums.

When a White Sox player hits a homerun, the scoreboard lights up and fireworks are set off. There may have been a chance of running out of fireworks tonight at the White Sox hit FIVE homeruns and beat the best team in the National League 10-7. The game lasted over three hours and the temperature was still 80 degrees by the end of the game. Quite a nice night for baseball. Man the weather has been nice on this trip.

After the game, we made our way closer to Milwaukee for tomorrow’s afternoon game. Still rush hour traffic at 10:30. The traffic in Chicago is worse than in New York. Chicago traffic delays are on the interstates and they go all day long. The joke must be that the speed limit on I- 90/94 through Chicago is 55 mph. I think the last speeding ticket on this stretch of Chicago interstate must have been back in 1973. New York traffic is just on the city streets. The highways are more like Los Angeles…70 mph bumper-to-bumper.

June 24

RUNNING RECORD WINS
Home Team – 5
Away Team – 6

American League – 6
National League – 5