Day with Jay
Jay and I spent the afternoon and evening together doing the Chicago sports scene. I picked him up in the early afternoon and we drove down to Kankakee; or actually, Bourbonnais; for the Bears practice. The thing is pretty friendly, no charge even for the parking, though the $2.00 bottles of pop are a bit much. We stood on the side of the path where the team would walk by on the way to the practice field. They would occationally stop and autograph things for people, mostly kids, people in wheelchairs and good looking girls. But we were able to get Brian Urlacher to autograph a Brian Urlacher jersey belonging to Jay's cousin Brian (enough "Brians" in that sentence?) I took a picture just before he signed it with Brian signing the kids stuff next to Jay and Jay's back.
We took a few pictures but the Palm is not very good for that in bright light, you cannot see the screen well enough to know what you are taking a picture of until you see it later.
We watched the team stretch and do some drills, then they broke up into squads. The quarterbacks tossed to a college kid in front of us while the offensive line pushed the sled to our right. The defense and special teams went to the other side. Every so often a horn would blow and the drills would change. The squads would combine some and do more team things. The quarterbacks and the recievers got together. Later the whole offense as a group and after a couple of hours the whole team did a scrimmage. Also the special teams did kick/kick return scrimmages. It lasted from 3:00 to 6:00.
Before the practice and after we watched the Score 670AM as they interviewed some players live on the radio, making the proper noise when needed. Jay also got to climb a climbing wall. They had lots of free stuff to do like that. He was the only adult that did it when we were there.
After we bought some souviners we decided to high-tail it up to Chicago for a Sox game. There was a front passing thru that would delay the start of the game but not be a problem after it rained for a while. Sorta Florida like rain, heavy and short. We stopped at the Wal-Mart in KKK for 40-cent pops because it was Pepsi-half-price night at Sox Park. The pop cans saved us $14 each on lower deck reserved tickets.
Part of the reason we went Tuesday night is because Freddy Garcia was the starter. He has been great since coming to the Sox. Well, he had an "off" night. No...he stunk. He gave up a home run on the second pitch and another a few batters later. The Sox got one run back in the first inning but he gave up more home runs later. The Sox brought it back to 3-4 but when they replaced Garcia the reliever was worse. Twice in one inning he threw a wild pitch which scored runs. Eventually the score was 8-9 as the Sox bats were on. But in the ninth two more runs were scored and the game ended at 8-11. We saw plenty of fireworks and close calls but when the pitching is that bad it is hard to win. Anyway we had a good time and got to yell a lot.
With the rain delayed start the game did not end till after 11:00. On the way back to Mokena we ran into some road work so we did not get back there till after midnight. I ran into more road work on I-80 so I did not get home till 1:30AM. Now I am trying to wake up and get my head together.
We took a few pictures but the Palm is not very good for that in bright light, you cannot see the screen well enough to know what you are taking a picture of until you see it later.
We watched the team stretch and do some drills, then they broke up into squads. The quarterbacks tossed to a college kid in front of us while the offensive line pushed the sled to our right. The defense and special teams went to the other side. Every so often a horn would blow and the drills would change. The squads would combine some and do more team things. The quarterbacks and the recievers got together. Later the whole offense as a group and after a couple of hours the whole team did a scrimmage. Also the special teams did kick/kick return scrimmages. It lasted from 3:00 to 6:00.
Before the practice and after we watched the Score 670AM as they interviewed some players live on the radio, making the proper noise when needed. Jay also got to climb a climbing wall. They had lots of free stuff to do like that. He was the only adult that did it when we were there.
After we bought some souviners we decided to high-tail it up to Chicago for a Sox game. There was a front passing thru that would delay the start of the game but not be a problem after it rained for a while. Sorta Florida like rain, heavy and short. We stopped at the Wal-Mart in KKK for 40-cent pops because it was Pepsi-half-price night at Sox Park. The pop cans saved us $14 each on lower deck reserved tickets.
Part of the reason we went Tuesday night is because Freddy Garcia was the starter. He has been great since coming to the Sox. Well, he had an "off" night. No...he stunk. He gave up a home run on the second pitch and another a few batters later. The Sox got one run back in the first inning but he gave up more home runs later. The Sox brought it back to 3-4 but when they replaced Garcia the reliever was worse. Twice in one inning he threw a wild pitch which scored runs. Eventually the score was 8-9 as the Sox bats were on. But in the ninth two more runs were scored and the game ended at 8-11. We saw plenty of fireworks and close calls but when the pitching is that bad it is hard to win. Anyway we had a good time and got to yell a lot.
With the rain delayed start the game did not end till after 11:00. On the way back to Mokena we ran into some road work so we did not get back there till after midnight. I ran into more road work on I-80 so I did not get home till 1:30AM. Now I am trying to wake up and get my head together.
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