Pee-mail: A Blackberry in Wrigley Field Men's Room

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.

Comments

[Tim@Cubby Blue]

I usually work from a photo for reference when making these illustrations.
But I've said this before - you simply can NOT take a photo in the men's room.
I asked a guy at work, Josh Thornton, if I could take a picture of him emailing in the hall (I can make the rest of the illustration up).
He said okay.
After, I told him what it was for which made him...uneasy.
And now that it kinda looks like him, I'd just like to make that story clear.
No, Josh Thornton was not the peemailer.

[Sarah]

Ick, Tim. Just ick. And that in no way is a comment on your illustration. It is a comment on the pee mailer. Ick.

[Bud]

Thanks for a good belly laugh this morning!

The show-off, "look Ma, no-hands" guys are at the top of my list of idiots I've seen in public bathrooms! I've actually seen a guy standing with his hands on top of his head. But "pee-mailing"?..that's a first!

You're right...don't stand anywhere near one of these whizz-ards!

OK ladies, can you top this?!!!

[Aaron]

LOL! Now, that takes some skill but it's still gross.

But anyways, everything seemed to be going the cubs way, and now the DODGERS are loosing to the Cardinals! 2 games in a row! I was watching last night's game and my Dad has been saying when Rami gets back we will take first and everything will be fine. He was right. He called the Home Run and hit with I think 2 men on (might have been 1, I forgot) and he was right. But I was sick of it so I just stopped watching tv after the cubs lost. The cardinals won 10-0 last night and the Brewers lost again to the Natinals. What's going on in the NL Central!?!? Dempster SUCKED but the entire bullpin was used last night so what could Pinella do? He did look like a genius with putting in my boy Reed Johnson. But, they still lost. Tonight's game will be interesting. The Dodgers need to play like they should and so do the Cubs. If the Brewers can't beat the worst team in baseball then I think we have a safe lead ahead of the Brewers.

[Sarah]

I instantly thought of this post when one of my students stood at the urinal, said "and they're off!" and began to pee with his hands on the back of his head and shaking his hips back and forth.
Did I mention he's 3?

[DB]

1) EWWWW!

2) Last night SUCKED, but today is a lot better. Hampton is the GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. And what's better? They can't bring in their bullpen because it's been decimated in the past two games!

3) Please let this continue tomorrow.

4) Dear Dodgers, I thought you were supposed to be all that and a bag of chips. FRIKKIN BEAT THE STUPID CARDINALS ALREADY!

[Cire Ddot Nekliw]

Pee mailer, hahaha, should have slapped him on the back and made him drop his phone, see if he'd have fished it out, yukkk...They should pass a law against using your cell phone at the game unless you're either taking pictures or calling people you know who are fans of the other team to taunt them and call them silly names a la Monty Python...That and eating nachos and other non ballpark foods....Dog and a beer, good enough for Terrance Mann, good enough for me...Oh, so I'm listening to the game after work today, man this game was so over after the first inning, reminds me of last year, but I'm thinkin October, and yes I know my current hometown boy (Cliff Lee of Benton, AR) is now a Phillie, like they needed help.

[DB]

The Dodgers suck. I just thought I'd say that. THEY SUCK. THEY REALLY REALLY DO.

[Tim@Cubby Blue]

Hi Guys,
Once again, super busy.
Sorry I didn't get back to anyone yesterday.
Sarah, the 3 year old story is priceless.
Bud, how did I not think to get "look ma..." in this post. Thank you.
Aaron, Demp will get better. Promise.
Eric, had I not been so shocked at seeing the guy peemailing, I might have thought of something at least clever to say. The backslap woulda been too touchy there.
DB, I watched the 9th of Card game on mlbtv. Passed ball killed the dodgers. They HAD that game. But even tho it's against the Cards, LA has gone way up on my list of dislikes. One big reason rhymes with "Fanny".

[DB]

Nah, Tim, you gotta call him "Tranny" now since he was taking the female hormones..!