CUBS AT SOX
they would rather stay at home than fill the stands. There were plenty of good seats available in Round 1 last month, and that was at Wrigley Field.
Now that it’s moving to U.S. Cellular Field, plenty of good sections should be available.
The days of former Sox manager Jerry Manuel telling pitching coach Nardi Contreras to make sure the rotation sets up so lefties Jim Parque and Mike Sirotka face the Cubs in the first two games of the series at Wrigley Field in 1999 are long gone.
Manuel gave that order the first day of spring training. Why?
Manuel had no understanding of the magnitude
7:10, Ch. 26,
CSN.
Matt Garza (2-5, 4.04 ERA) vs. Zach Stewart (1-1, 5.18). 7:10, Ch. 9, CSN. Ryan Dempster (3-3, 2.11) vs. Gavin Floyd (4-7, 5.63). Cubs-Sox had throughout the city in his rookie year as manager in 1998, and the Sox were swept at Wrigley Field. Everywhere he went after that series, he heard about it from Sox fans.
That was when Cubs-Sox meant something — three games a season, switching venues every year.
These days, it’s a stale six games in which the media has to search for ways to hype it up and give it life.
Please, Bud Selig, pull the plug on the six-game interleague series between so-called rivals.
Ask a Cubs fan what happened the first time the teams met this season, and the response likely will be, “‘Kid K’ retired that weekend,” followed by a lone