After spending the entire day touring Field’s Museum and Millennium Park on foot, I had to rest my feet from that all day walk and ended up at Mother Hubbard’s Cub’s Sport Bar. The bar was packed with sports fans and there were 30 flat screen tv’s throughout the bar. I kept my eyes on two particular screens, one where the Giants and Phillies and the other Padres and Cubs. The boys jumped out for a quick lead and the way the game started, I’d sworn the boys will continue to add more. The locals (Chicagoans) were very concerned coming into this game, as they were fully aware of the Padres’ starting pitcher Jon Garland. If you hadn’t caught on yet, Garland had pitched in Chicago actually the Southside for 6 years. The locals in the bar knew if the Cubs didn’t get to Garland early it may be a long night. As it turned out, they were right on with their pre-game sentiments. I was the only Padres fan in the bar wearing the Padres cap. Luckily, I managed to walk out with a slight smile of my face and made it safely to the hotel.
Tomorrow morning, I will be heading north on the subway to visit Wrigley Field for my first time as the Padres take on the Cubs again. I plan on taking lots of photos and videos, in a few days I should have them hosted up on here. In the meantime, as I wrapped up this post. My stomach feels like the pizza I had at Mother Hubbard’s was cooked in old grease. Needless to say, here is a blues music video by blues musician Jeff Chaz tilted “Cookin’ In Old Grease”. Let’s go boys and pad the lead on those Giants.
