Lunching With Stuart At Old Chicago

Yesterday afternoon I had lunch with my friend Stuart, seen in the photograph above, at the Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom in ugly, but also very boring, Lakewood, Colorado, just to the west of Denver. Of course, when you are in the bar area at Old Chicago, you can't actually see Lakewood, and so no problem. While we were there, both the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies were on the television. Sadly, my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, weren't playing yesterday, resting up for today's game against the San Francisco Giants. The Cubs, who are in first place in the National League Central Division, beat St. Louis 3-0, and as usual, the Rockies lost to the Dodgers 3-1. Stuart, originally from the North Side of Chicago, is, of course, a Cubs fan, and is beginning to talk World Series. We'll see if he is still talking World Series in September. I myself am originally from the South Side of Chicago and have no illusions about the White Sox and the World Series. I am just happy they are winning a few games every now and then, giving the fans something to cheer about, as opposed to last year, when they lost a major league record 121 games. Our adopted hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, are on course to beat that record. And just today, in a major shakeup, they promoted the owner's son to executive vice president. The Rockies prefer to have friends and relatives run the team instead of people who know anything about baseball, and so I think the Rockies have a good shot at that worst in the history of baseball title. Making history at last!