What is your first memory of Wrigley

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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    I'm a Truck wrote:
    cubBEE_girl wrote:
    When I was 5 years old we used to live in walking distance from Wrigley. That summer my grandpa took care of me a lot while my parents were at work. So, a couple times a week my grandpa and I would walk to Wrigley to catch a game (this was before ticket prices became ridiculous and you could just show up right before the game and still get tickets from the box office). He'd always get me a popcorn (sometimes if I was lucky, I'd get some cotton candy) and get himself a couple of beers and a scorecard. He would tell me about the history of the park, about the ivy, about the scoreboard, about what it was like when he played there when he was on the Bears, he'd explain the game to me, why he liked and didn't like certain players (I absorbed as much as a 5 year old could). Spending the afternoons at Wrigley watching the Cubs with my grandpa are some of my best childhood memories. So, when I go to games now, I will get myself a couple of beers and a scorecard and think of that time spent with my grandpa.
    Great story!

    Way better than mine and hot dogs.... :fp:

    Better than a klements sausage?
  • RKCNDY
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    cubBEE_girl wrote:
    When I was 5 years old we used to live in walking distance from Wrigley. That summer my grandpa took care of me a lot while my parents were at work. So, a couple times a week my grandpa and I would walk to Wrigley to catch a game (this was before ticket prices became ridiculous and you could just show up right before the game and still get tickets from the box office). He'd always get me a popcorn (sometimes if I was lucky, I'd get some cotton candy) and get himself a couple of beers and a scorecard. He would tell me about the history of the park, about the ivy, about the scoreboard, about what it was like when he played there when he was on the Bears, he'd explain the game to me, why he liked and didn't like certain players (I absorbed as much as a 5 year old could). Spending the afternoons at Wrigley watching the Cubs with my grandpa are some of my best childhood memories. So, when I go to games now, I will get myself a couple of beers and a scorecard and think of that time spent with my grandpa.
    Cool story! :D
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    I started going to Cubs games when I was really young...3-4. I sorta remember them then but it wasn't until I was older that I started to appreciate the game. I just remember the smells, the food, the sounds...which is why I love Wrigley so much. The second I walk in there it just triggers all those memories.
    I became a baseball stat junkie at an early age too. Every game, I'd get a scorecard...god, I probably knew every Cubs statistic from 1987-2000. :lol:
  • cubBEE_girl
    cubBEE_girl Waiting for next year... Posts: 3,367
    mca47 wrote:
    I started going to Cubs games when I was really young...3-4. I sorta remember them then but it wasn't until I was older that I started to appreciate the game. I just remember the smells, the food, the sounds...which is why I love Wrigley so much. The second I walk in there it just triggers all those memories.
    I became a baseball stat junkie at an early age too. Every game, I'd get a scorecard...god, I probably knew every Cubs statistic from 1987-2000. :lol:

    Exactly...as soon as you walk in there all those childhood memories are triggered! I know Wrigley needs some help and some sprucing up, but I really just love it and it is one of my favorite places to be.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    You have no idea how lucky you guys are to have the opportunity to live so close to these ballparks

    I'm jealous :lol:
  • I'm a Truck
    I'm a Truck Milwaukee Posts: 3,508
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    I'm a Truck wrote:
    cubBEE_girl wrote:
    When I was 5 years old we used to live in walking distance from Wrigley. That summer my grandpa took care of me a lot while my parents were at work. So, a couple times a week my grandpa and I would walk to Wrigley to catch a game (this was before ticket prices became ridiculous and you could just show up right before the game and still get tickets from the box office). He'd always get me a popcorn (sometimes if I was lucky, I'd get some cotton candy) and get himself a couple of beers and a scorecard. He would tell me about the history of the park, about the ivy, about the scoreboard, about what it was like when he played there when he was on the Bears, he'd explain the game to me, why he liked and didn't like certain players (I absorbed as much as a 5 year old could). Spending the afternoons at Wrigley watching the Cubs with my grandpa are some of my best childhood memories. So, when I go to games now, I will get myself a couple of beers and a scorecard and think of that time spent with my grandpa.
    Great story!

    Way better than mine and hot dogs.... :fp:

    Better than a klements sausage?

    Yes, they know hot dogs at Wrigley.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    I'm a Truck wrote:

    Yes, they know hot dogs at Wrigley.

    Well, fuck!
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    cubBEE_girl wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    I started going to Cubs games when I was really young...3-4. I sorta remember them then but it wasn't until I was older that I started to appreciate the game. I just remember the smells, the food, the sounds...which is why I love Wrigley so much. The second I walk in there it just triggers all those memories.
    I became a baseball stat junkie at an early age too. Every game, I'd get a scorecard...god, I probably knew every Cubs statistic from 1987-2000. :lol:

    Exactly...as soon as you walk in there all those childhood memories are triggered! I know Wrigley needs some help and some sprucing up, but I really just love it and it is one of my favorite places to be.
    Yeah, it def needs some renovations, I just hope they don't take it too far.
    While I love baseball and will go see any team play in any park, I just absolutely cannot stand most modern parks! Music blasting, commentator people on the jumbotron doing stupid games and whatnot between innings...it's like they have to keep people constantly entertained the second they walk in the park to the last pitch. F that! I'm there for the game and all that other shit annoys me to no end! Granted, we are in a time where we have to be constantly entertained (see smartphones, iPads, etc)....but why pay the money to go to a game if your staring at your damn phone the whole time?!?
  • cubBEE_girl
    cubBEE_girl Waiting for next year... Posts: 3,367
    mca47 wrote:

    Yeah, it def needs some renovations, I just hope they don't take it too far.
    While I love baseball and will go see any team play in any park, I just absolutely cannot stand most modern parks! Music blasting, commentator people on the jumbotron doing stupid games and whatnot between innings...it's like they have to keep people constantly entertained the second they walk in the park to the last pitch. F that! I'm there for the game and all that other shit annoys me to no end! Granted, we are in a time where we have to be constantly entertained (see smartphones, iPads, etc)....but why pay the money to go to a game if your staring at your damn phone the whole time?!?

    Exactly!! I couldn't have said it better myself! :clap:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,876
    mca47 wrote:
    ....but why pay the money to go to a game if your staring at your damn phone the whole time?!?

    Sorta like the peeps at a concert that watch it through their phone so that they can have good video of the show. When I was at the Super Bowl my buddy had his phone out taping the 4th down play at the end. Had I not been so focused on the play I would have smacked him. When he showed the video to me later I laughed at him. Now he really can remember the play just like he saw it -- looking through his iPhone. :lol:

    I have these Wrigley memories...but mine are from Fenway, where I grew up going to games. Something about the old time ballparks, being a kid, with family....it just doesn't get much better than that.
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  • 81
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    my first game actual game was a night game vs. the Brewers back in 06. cubs stunk. brewers weren't much better. but it was cool walking up the stairs to our seats and seeing the field illuminated by the lights. pretty sure the brewers won that game.

    fav memory is getting to pitch off the bullpen mound. that was cool.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    The Juggler wrote:

    ever go to their wine mixer?

    Where is that? No

    I think I was 14 or 15 when I was there
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,876
    81 wrote:
    fav memory is getting to pitch off the bullpen mound. that was cool.

    Priceless.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,876
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:

    ever go to their wine mixer?

    Where is that? No

    I think I was 14 or 15 when I was there

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5vMkV2OqvY
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:

    ever go to their wine mixer?

    Where is that? No

    I think I was 14 or 15 when I was there

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5vMkV2OqvY

    Ah. I don't think I ever made it through that entire movie. :fp:
  • wess.c.attle
    wess.c.attle Posts: 16
    I get the chills everytime you first pop up from underground on the red line and you come around the big curve and see Wrigley in the distance. Pull up to your stop and hear "doors open on the left at Addison". Follow the crowd down the stairs and out of the subway station. Take a right and walk down Addison, take another right on Sheffield and walk on down to Murph's. Stop and enjoy the bucket drummers for a bit. Take a glance up at the back of the scoreboard and hopefully see the Cubbies flag flyin on top. Down a few and wait for the bleacher entrance to open. Settle in the 3rd or 4th row in left field. Look for Woo-Woo (Cubs Woo! Win Woo! Cubs Woo! Win Woo!) And then just wait for Van Halen to start and see all the boys run out. (Don't know why they don't play "Jump" anymore, it was my favorite part as a kid.) I got goosebumps now thinkin about opening day.

    Can't wait for another '03!

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  • I'm a Truck
    I'm a Truck Milwaukee Posts: 3,508
    81 wrote:
    my first game actual game was a night game vs. the Brewers back in 06. cubs stunk. brewers weren't much better. but it was cool walking up the stairs to our seats and seeing the field illuminated by the lights. pretty sure the brewers won that game.

    fav memory is getting to pitch off the bullpen mound. that was cool.
    Holy Shit, they are lenient there. We won't let ANYBODY even step on the grass.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    I'm a Truck wrote:
    81 wrote:
    my first game actual game was a night game vs. the Brewers back in 06. cubs stunk. brewers weren't much better. but it was cool walking up the stairs to our seats and seeing the field illuminated by the lights. pretty sure the brewers won that game.

    fav memory is getting to pitch off the bullpen mound. that was cool.
    Holy Shit, they are lenient there. We won't let ANYBODY even step on the grass.

    infield was off limites....and we got a don't touch the ivy speach. but we got to shag fly's in the outfield and pitch....of course it was the visitor mound :lol:
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    I remember when the Twins used to play at the big inflatable... every sunday, the kids could run the bases

    Shit was cash

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