I Got A Ball At A White Sox Game

Okay, I am currently visiting some relatives in Chicago right now. I live in North Dakota, so I hardly ever get to see any baseball games. Tonight, my aunt was able to get some tickets to the Sox game tonight. I'm a Cubs fan, but I'm also a baseball fan, and since I hardly ever get to go to any games, I was excited to go.

Our seats were really good. We were in the left field seats, about ten rows back. The White Sox bullpen was one row down and an aisle over, really close. Now, I was wearing my Cubs hat just for the hell of it (I'm not afraid of getting beat of by rabid sox fans). Around the 2nd inning, I was eating a hot dog, when I noticed that the White Sox bullpen coach was motioning for me to come over. I go over there, and this conversation (along these lines) occurs:

Coach: "I'm glad you decided to come watch a real baseball game. Those other guys are AAA or AA."

Me: "Well, we're 23 games over 500"

C: "Yeah, in AAA."

M: "I was at the game yesterday. They hit a grand slam."

C: *Something I can't remember*

M: "We swept you guys this year."

C: "Yeah, we were drunk."

C: "There's a reason the AL has won the all star game 12 (?) years in a row."

After this, he tossed me a baseball, and we both laughed, and I went to go sit back down. At the end of the game, Octavio Dotel was signing autographs, and I got one (I took my cubs hat off obviously).

Overall, this experience was better than the game. I got to talk trash with the Sox bullpen coach, and I got a free ball, my first one ever at a game. I'll certainly remember tonight for a while.