After my season tickets sold on StubHub overnight, I had to decide whether to buy tickets outside the stadium or try to get on the rooftop in which I know the owner. Of course, going on a rooftop for free seemed better than trying to buy a ticket.

As I have written in the past, I normally can talk to the game day operations guy (Peter) and he allows me access to the rooftop. However, yesterday was different. He said the owner was in town and that I would need to go through the owner rather than him to get on the rooftop.

“Great!” I thought. The last time I called the owner for access he called me 20 minutes before game time (read story here). However, the owner has allowed me up on the rooftop plenty of times over the past couple of seasons so I figured it would not be a problem. The only issue was that I usually give the owner a day or two advanced notice and now game time was 90 minutes away. I called him immediately at 10:30 am, texted him at 11 am, and called him again at 11:30 am. At 11:45 am I still had no response. What was I to do? Give up and look for tickets on the street or stay confident and stand at the bottom of the rooftop like an idiot. Idiot I chose.

Next thing I knew his lawyer, Paul, showed up and asked me who I was waiting for. I introduced myself and stated that I knew he was the owner’s lawyer. He acted surprised by this knowledge and said the owner was asleep and that he would take care of my cousin and me. He walked up to Peter and whispered something. Next thing I knew we were handed two tickets for the rooftop. Game time (noon) was obviously the time where Peter and Paul (“the Apostles”) could make a decision for the owner – who we will now call the Big Guy.

We had our access to the rooftop even though it was the most painful experience thus far. Desperate? – Yes. Worth it? – Of course.

The Game
Randy Wells pitched 6 scoreless innings to extend his Cubs scoreless inning streak to 15 1/3 innings – the longest streak to start a Cubs career since Jose Guzman threw 17 1/3 scoreless innings in 1993.

Since we were sitting on the rooftop, we could see many fans leave Wrigley Field after the 8th inning. Little did they know, the Astros would score 4 runs in the top of the 9th to tie the game 4-4 and Alfonso Soriano would drive in the winning run in the bottom of the 9th inning to win the game off of whom else but Latroy Hawkins.