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Last Monday, Trey and I caught the Red Line to see the Good Guys take on the Texas Rangers. Seeing as this was Trey’s first game at The Cell, I had gotten us Lower Deck seats, which gives you a much better ballpark experience. As you see above, our tickets were just between the foul line pole and left field. If today’s game was going to produce a high number of homers, we would be in a good position to make a dive for a souvenir. After finding out seats, and watching a presentation for Stand Up To Cancer with Lance Armstrong, we grabbed us our respective dogs and beers. See below:

Super Comiskey Dog

Veggie Dog.

As you can see, my Super Comiskey Dog was a bit more attractive than Trey’s sad veggie dog. Next time, Trey said he was going to waste the money on a Comiskey Dog just for the extra condiments so that he could properly dress his veggie dog.

Back at our seats, Trey was immediately befriended by a group of ladies sitting next to us. The first thing they noticed was that not only was Trey not dressed in any Sox gear, he wasn’t even donning any black. When Trey mentioned he was just there for the game, the ladies seemed determined that he have a good time. Perhaps, I shouldn’t have said that it was Trey’s first Sox game because I believe they took it as if it were Trey’s first baseball game. In fact, as I learned that day, Trey has been to several baseball parks, including the soon to be history Yankee and Shea stadiums. Anyway, once the game started up, the ladies pretty much kept to themselves. I did not notice that the gals cheered the loudest for my man Crede, who I guess is the dreamiest when it comes to the opposite sex.

My surroundings included a family rooting for the Rangers and a loud duo from New York who commented on every aspect of the game. At times funny, they started to get on the nerves of the Sox fans around them when they began taking pleasure in the Sox’s lack of offense. At one point, one of the ladies next to Trey asked them why they were even at the game. It turns out they were Mets fans who were just visiting friends in Chicago. Their friends, who were die-hard Sox fans, had given them their Lower Deck seats, while they watched from the Upper Deck. Lucky us.

When one of the ladies got in an argument with one of the New York kids about baseball, it was her lack of even basic baseball knowledge that was a bit embarrassing. You see, one of the kids (the one not in the argument, I might add) was wearing a Boston Red Sox jersey (“I hate the Yankees,” was his explanation to me). Well, our lady mentioned how the Sox had beaten the Red Sox in the World Series. The statement makes no sense since both teams are in the American League, making it impossible to compete against each other in the finals. On top of that, she made some type of statement about how long it had been since the Red Sox won the championship. Umm, 2007. The kid was quick to jump on the attack with this obvious blunder. The lady, who was frustrated with losing this battle, even seemed to deny that this was true, which how can you argue a hard fact of who won the World Series? Heck, I don’t have a problem with being ignorant of baseball, but you better know something if you plan on starting an argument with it. So, that was a bit awkward.

(Note: Our lady’s confusion might have been that the White Sox had defeated the Red Sox for the Division Title in 2005, a year after the Red Sox had won the World Series. In 2005, it was the White Sox who won the World Series. Furthermore, she might have also forgotten that the Red Sox had won the championship last year, and was trying to claim that the Red Sox hadn’t won the series since the oh, so distant past of 2004.)

Still, despite this bit of uneasiness and the fact that the Sox had such a lackluster game (even though I finally got to see a Carlos Quentin homerun in person), I had a nice time at The Cell. And though I don’t think Trey will be rushing to another game, I think he had a good time as well. After this loss, the Sox have gone on to a 4-game winning streak, with a 3.5 game lead over in the Twins for first place in the AL Central Division. So far, I am 2-2-1 for games I’ve attended this year.

Trey doesn’t seem too torn up about the lost.