Chicago White Sox

Our annual work outing lately (for the past five years at least) has been an afternoon spent in a skybox at US Cellular field (fka Comisky Park) to watch the Chicago White Sox play.

Most people spend their time eating the free food the dessert cart is a particular highlight), drinking the free beer, and not watching the game. But its a fun relaxing day away from the office either way.

This year the game coincided with the week of the Chicago Air & Water show, so there were some parachutists in town - this group, who landed in the field before the game, are Navy SEALs - I for one, didn't know they had a demonstration team. They had a target set up in the outfield, and although none of them hit it, they made dramatic entrances, some with the American flag hanging from their feet.

I have a couple of pictures of the game, and while it was exciting (the Sox slaughtered the Royals, with three home runs in a row one inning, something I've personally never seen) it is very hard to get good pictures, so I'm just showing a couple representative shots. One of the shots is of the ground crew doing their thing, which I always find fascinating.

Looking at the stands you can see that it's a good crowd for a Thursday afternoon. Although, the Sox are doing well this year I can't help but wonder if all these people are playing hookie from work - or if they don't have anything better to do than go to a ball game during the week.