Wrigley food

I got a hot dog here at Wrigley and I forgot to take a picture of it. So here’s some video that’s a bit out of context but that contains footage of the wiener in question:


Pretty excellent hot dog, actually. I was unimpressed with the ballpark food the last time I was here and have always heard it was nothing special — which is pretty much understood when you’re at an old park like this one.

But the hot dog itself was tasty and sweet, not sweet like “sweet, man,” but actually sweet to the taste. Which, I guess, is why the guy said I shouldn’t put ketchup on it. Plus I liked the customizable nature of the thing, with the relish and hot peppers and all.

I liked the poppy-seed bun, too, though it was a touch chewier than I would have liked. Obviously you can’t expect the Shack-ago Dog from every hot dog you try in actual Chicago, but this was a decent estimation, especially considering it came at a rusty old ballpark.

I imagine I’ll do better when I get to The Wiener’s Circle everyone keeps raving about.

Is this thing on?

I am armed with a Flip cam this weekend to shoot some stuff for Mets Weekly, but I figured I should learn how to upload videos from it to this site in case I capture something I want to share with y’all. So as a test run, here’s me telling a silly joke pertaining to an earlier thread:


Fooled you!

I’m off to Brooklyn to film some Cyclones stuff for the Baseball Show. Actually by now I’m probably already there.

To be perfectly honest, this blog has been on autopilot for several hours now as I do a bunch of stuff to get my act together to go to Chicago on Friday. I got you good, suckers!

Anyway, I may or may not have some more posts soon depending on the Internet situation in the park and the whims of my crappy home laptop. In the meantime, enjoy this merengue-dancing dog:

Kiner’s Korner Revisited: Ed Kranepool

Fun fact: After their careers ended, both Kranepool and Cleon Jones worked with my grandfather. He was the foreman at a lithography factory and they were in sales, since I guess people are more likely to contract a lithographer that is represented by ballplayers. Kranepool came to my aunt’s wedding when I was real young and I got to wear his World Series ring. Pretty awesome.