You know, just when you think you've seen it all at Wrigley Field.
Somewhere around the 7th or 8th on Monday night, I'm in the men's room.
I'm sure you've heard the descriptions or even been there, but the layout includes a sort of 5' tall wall in the center of the room, and along both sides are long, metal troughs.
So, you wouldn't call this a place with alot of privacy.
Etiquette demands you look up or maybe straight ahead at the guy across from you.
But out of the corner of my eye I thought the guy next to me was looking in a little mirror or something weird.
Couldn't help it.
I looked.
Guy was writing an email.
Just hangin' free, both hands emailing away and peeing at the same time.
He was so engrossed he didn't notice me staring.
On one hand, maybe it was admirable: not wasting baseball-viewing time with emailing.
On the other hand, he was probably on Twitter, writing "I am peeing in the men's room at Wrigley..."
But without either hand, it was just plain gross.
I scooched down away from him since I was wearing flip-flops and concerned about lack of concentration and aim.
The Cubs and Astros had an awesome multi-pitcher's duel Monday night starting with Big Z and Wandy Rodriguez.
Semi-dormant Cub Killer Carlos Lee creamed a ball out of the park early.
And our own Lee responded with one too.
Just before he did I leaned over to Sutter and said, "Lee's going long."
Why do I get so happy with myself when that happens?
Anyway, this was the game with the controversial squeeze play where Fontenot missed the bunt and Bradley was so out and the whole thing happened so fast you weren't sure what happened.
But now there were 2 outs and when Fontenot hit the fly ball that woulda scored the winning run, everybody was angry and vocal.
But it was an awesome game and when it went into extra-extra innings, the people still there were more of the hard-core variety, all totally engrossed.
So for me, when Alfonso Soriano hit the weak grounder to third and watched himself get thrown out from the comfort of the batter's box, it took all the wind out of my sails.
How could a guy not have his head in the game when everybody else at Wrigley was so into it.
(Later you'd find out he thought he fouled it off his foot, but still...)
I left in the bottom of the 12th with a big meeting early the next day, heard the grand salami by the immediately forgiven Alfonso on the radio driving home.
A great moment from Pat and Ron for sure as the Cubs beat the Astros 5-1 in 13 and stayed in first.
Last night went to a client dinner, snuck into the bar area a couple times and well, maybe Ryan Dempster will be better next time.
Cubs lose 6-11, and fall back into 2nd.
By the way, the Brewers have lost 2 in a row to the Nats, and are now 4.5 out.
Ouchee for them.
And at 1:20 today it's young Randy Wells vs. Mike Hampton.
Go Cubs.
One last thing.
Somebody offers their mobile device so you can send an email at the park?
Decline.
