Minnesota Twins @ Chicago White Sox 5-8-08

On our way to Chicago (Wed. 5/7), we met Amy Stimpson for lunch. She looks great (see picture in the picture set). She seems to be managing without Bob although she has good and bad days. It was great seeing her.

We went to the game at US Cellular today (Thurs. 5/8). The weather forecast was not good ... cold and cloudy. We wore our down coats. But, we were pleasantly surprised. 52deg and sunny at game time. We actually took our coats off by the 3rd inning (and put them on again in the 8th inning when the sun went behind the stands). I really liked this stadium. Well laid out. Lots of room to walk. Lots of concession stands.

The White Sox won 6 - 2 behind good pitching (Jon Danks), home runs by Jermaine Dye and Juan Uribe, and a great take out slide by Uribe to break up a double play allowing a run to score. Here's a link to the box score:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_05_08_minmlb_chamlb_1&mode=wrap

Here's a link to the pictures from US Cellular:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14772189@N03/sets/

Hot Dog Rating: One of the best. We had an Italian Sausage ... hot off the grill. Absolutely loaded with great veggies and sauerkraut. Very high on the messy scale, although the cardboard holder was a plus (we could eat the veggies instead of having them on the floor). A "10".

A Post Script -- I saw something in a baseball game I've never seen before. With runners on 1st and 2nd and no out, Paul Konerko was batting. He had a 3-and-1 count. He took what seemed to ball 4. The runners began jogging to their next base. Konerko dropped his bat, took off his protective shin guard and began jogging to 1st base. Four or five seconds had passed when Joe Mauer (the Twins catcher) decided to appeal to the first base ump believing that Konerko had swung. The ump ruled he did, in fact, swing. By this time, the runners were on 2nd and 3rd. The pitcher figured the baserunners moved up illegally so he ran toward the guy on 2nd, and tagged him assuming the umps would call him out. He, then, ran to 3rd to tag him as well. Of course, they were safe since they had 'stolen' the base. The Twins manager came out to argue because the runners had moved up because the ump had not made the strike call in a timely manner. No surprise ... he was ejected even though he was right!