LOL, supporting the local team because they are consistently good and deserve the praise is one thing, supporting the local team as a pathetic bunch of losers that they are is quite another issue altogether!


I cannot help it, I was born in Brooklyn and spent my youth supporting the Mets and Jets, true torture. Yankee distaste is a fine sport where I grew up. I was rescued just in time to become a Cardinals fan in St. Louis where baseball has been more about the game itself than about its surroundings and the entertainment "choices" inside and outside the ballpark. But old habits die hard and given the record of the local teams I suppose "true" Chicago fans need other things to keep them interested in the game!

If I arrive at 10:19 pm into ORD, is it worth me trucking into town to try to meet everyone for afterdinner drinks? The next leg of my MR is the next morning at 8am.

(I'm doing an SFO-CVG x2 run next weekend via ORD)

Someday I'll actually leave ORD and see Chicago...

Sure, venture inside our fiefdom... you know you really want to!

It'll take about 55 minutes at that time of night to get downtown from O'Hare. Were you planning on getting a hotel someplace or just staying up all night??

Turns out that blort's uncle is getting remarried this weekend. The festivities are somewhere a couple hours south of the city but apparently it won't be a very drawn-out affair, so I might just be able to stop by on the way home.

Wireless, if you want to stay up all night, the last bars close at 5am. You can always meander around Wicker Park for a little bit afterward (my favorite taco place there doesn't close until 6 or 7am on the weekends) and catch the Blue Line back to O'Hare. I've hopped on from the Damen stop (see transitchicago.com) a little after 6am and made 7am flights before, but that might be cutting it a little close.

It turns out I have another engagement as well, but mine is later - so, I'll be available right after the game for awhile. So, it looks like we've got Fred covered from 6 pm until 5 am!

Turns out I'm having dinner with the sis and bro-in-law after the game, who have opted to return to Whorrenville Sat. night instead of staying downtown at their condo. Seems they've heard enough of what goes on (from the NYC "spy" sister) at these "sordid" (shall we say) events and are scampering their whimpering little selves back to the "safety" of the "burbs". So, I'm free (or at greatly reduced prices) about 9PM Saturday or so to join up with the fiefdom. PL'd a dump...er...closet...er...room at the Palmer House for Sat. night.

So, maybe I'll be joining you later, as opposed to earlier. Hope you don't end up in the room with the mysterious fire of last week!

What about some lunch up in Wrigleyville...Goose Island or that little joint with the patio out back just south of it?

That could work. Or.....(just to make Missy jealous - not that the food is any good ) Heaven on Seven (on Clark) just about a block south of the ball yard.

How much did the PL room cost?

So are the festivities now starting at 9? Or do people want to get together around 7 anyway for dinner? We could have dinner where Fred's having dinner and recreate the scene from Chez Paul in The Blues Brothers.

Nick, I bid $90 for a 4*, but they countered and got me for $102 I was going to do the old Univ. of Chicago "student" ('bout time law school paid for SOMETHING) rates thingy at the Homeywood, but they wanted around $150.

ILP, lemme call the B&B (what I fondly refer to their 11,000 sq. ft. house as) and run Heaven on Seven by 'em for lunch. I'm all for it, and Missy's on vacation...she'll never know

I'll definitely let y'all know about the dinner place...that would be hysterical, since my 13 y.o. smartass (wonder where she got it) niece will be with us..."how much for zee little girl?" "C'mon, we're putting the fiefdom back together"...

For $102, I'll sleep on the floor of my office if I'm too drunk to drive home.

It'd have been much cheaper if you'd just done a U of C student...

I think to have a home in Warrenville (or the unincorporated part east of it towards IL 59), 6000 sf is a minimum requirement. Two of my friends have a compound out there - seven bedrooms, five baths, and a basement bigger than my townhouse.

On Saturday night I scamper from the boring burbs into the city. I think I should be able to meet up around 9.

What EVER!

OK, folks, I just informed Fred that FOX has decided to broadcast this game and changed the time to 12:20 p.m. So, we'll let Fred let us know what, if any, change of plans will result.