Day 83 (Saturday, September 2)

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I can't believe I had been in Chicago this whole time and I finally got the chance to go work a Cubs baseball game. It's all good. I knew covering a game was going to be part of the internship experience and I wasn't in such a hurry to do so. But today I did.

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I tagged along w/ staffer Nam Y. Huh, who almost got taken down by Giants first baseman, on a foul ball in the above photo.

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The Cubs, as you can see, played the S.F. Giants. Booooooo! Oh wait, I am not supposed to show favorites here. Woops. OK! OK! So the Cubs played the Giants. Personally, I dislike the Giants because of my Dodger roots. But when it comes down to covering the Giants in an assignment, I forget about the fact that I am a Dodger. As a matter of fact, I left my LA hat in the truck today when I parked my car on the Purple Lot just west of the stadium.

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Above is the photo of when Bonds hit a home run. At that point he was 28 home runs away from breaking the home run record. There's that controversy of how real his home run record is. Just because he did all those enhancing drugs. Again, I cannot show a bias. I shot the photos of Bonds because he created the story. I couldn't let my feelings of his so-called home run record chase get in the way.

Bonds rounded third base during the home run and I was able to get some perspective of the Cubs pitcher and Bonds.

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Being on the sidelines at a baseball game can be dangerous. That's because the photographers' pit is so close to the stadium. Wriggley field has its photographers' pit right up close to the foul ball line. You're bound to get scared a few times. Just like the photo above where Feliz swung a foul ball. The ball is seen on the top left corner as it headed toward me. I ducked and was able to be saved by the small fence in front of the photo pit. Whew! That was close.

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The seventh inning stretch was given by Rod Beck, long time Cubs reliever. Beck graduated from Grant High School in Van Nuys, Calif. That's the same high school I graduated from. During my high school baseball days we often talked about Rod Beck, the only person to give the Lancers a City Section title.

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Bonds struck out on the above photo. He makes news every time he goes up to bat, home run or not.

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