July 20, 2020: Exhibition Season

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Although there had been spring training, preseason, exhibition games played this year already, that was before the COVID; who remembers anything that happened before that? For the Cubs & Sox, Sunday night was the beginning of the shortened exhibition season. The first of two of these type of meetings would be held at Wrigley Field.

The Cubs would send their opening day starter Kyle Hendricks on the mound and the Sox would send… some bum. Why wasn’t their opening day starter Lucas Giolito pitching for them? Let me answer that for you. Because the Cubs kicked the crap out of him last year and the Sox didn’t want to start off like that. Instead, the Cubs scored a couple runs off the Sox bum to take an early lead.

It looked different on the TV; it was great, don’t get me wrong, just different. No crowd at Wrigley? Although that may not be so far from the norm at other stadiums in the city, well, really only one other stadium in the city, and for many other major league teams, seeing baseball being played in Wrigley with no fans was just weird. Then they pumped in the crowd noise; I didn’t love or hate it… it was fine. I did like the music that they played throughout; that really brought in the sounds of the game. Although there will be nobody singing or dancing to it between innings, the in-game organ play was great to hear. Overall, just great to see live baseball being played, even if this game didn’t really count.

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I watched for a couple innings then turned it off. Thank God Hawk Harrelson isn’t around any more. I don’t mind listening to Jason and Steve; Benetti is really good… kind of reminds me of Len Kasper. Steve Stone is Steve Stone… solid. The thing that was making me a bit queasy was all the Sox themed commercials. Every game counts? No shit, really? Could you come up with a more obvious motto for this year? All the guys posing, flexing, flashed in my face… I had enough. Of course, I wouldn’t have to deal with this if Marquee and Xfinity got their shit together.

I had moved on to a cooking show with my son by the time I got a text: SOX!!! I figured they must have scored for me to receive this text from this die hard Sox fan; they did… like 6 runs to take the lead, and eventually win the game. This is the stuff that I miss; this is the stuff that is coming back. Win or lose in this game, it matters little; even for that “pride” that comes with beating your crosstown rival. The nice thing about it, is that we will play games against each other this year that DO count. Now that’s where the trash talking will be out full force, and I am ready for it. At the end of this day, I think everybody was just happy to see baseball back; it felt great!

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