Oh, right! Sorry about that. Bloody American, assuming the world knows who the Cubs & Sox are. ;-) Big apologies! It's baseball. In the context of my original post, I used the word bleachers to mean just your typical stadium seats.
However, when you are inside the baseball park, there are seats behind homeplate and 1st & 3rd base: closest to the field are the premium box seats, then behind those are the terrace seats, then grandstand, then upper grandstand. But the seats behind the outfield are called the bleachers. There are left field bleachers and right field bleachers. Cross town is just a team from one side of the town versus the team from the other side of the town. In this case, north side against south side. Glad you liked the essay. Big thanks & cheers, Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:10 AM Subject: RE: GESO: Chicago Cubs & White Sox Crosstown Game June 22, 2008 > Excellent essay Christine - a great big thick slice of American pie. > > Thanks also for the explanation - whatever sport they're playing > doesn't mean anything to me, and some of the vocabulary is a bit alien > (cross-town series? bleachers?) but it doesn't matter because the > pictures are as American as a steaming hot dog. > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Christine Aguila >> Sent: 23 June 2008 09:44 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: GESO: Chicago Cubs & White Sox Crosstown Game June 22, 2008 >> >> Hi Gang: >> >> I made this for all my new PDML friends, but I also made this >> especially for >> folks who aren't from the U.S. The Chicago Cubs & Sox had their 1st > >> cross-town series of the season at Wrigley Field, which is on >> the north side >> of Chicago; The White Sox are from the south side; the Cubs >> from the north >> side. >> >> >From the rainbow to the 1st Wrigley sign represents my walk >> to the stadium. >> The 1st Wrigley sign to the dog represents pictures made outside the > >> stadium. The dog to the Monty Python storefront represents >> pictures made >> across the street from the stadium. The building owners >> across the street >> have built bleachers on their rooftops & sell tickets. From >> Monty Python to >> the last picture represents my walk back to the EL. >> >> I didn't have tickets to the game, but I wanted to get some >> shots around the >> park. Oh, one last thing: the couple with the cubs/sox >> jerseys are, in >> fact, married. I was gleeful when I spied them. It was the >> shot I was >> hoping for. The rainbow is nice, but I got the portrait I >> was looking for. >> >> Oh, & the brooms, which were everywhere, signify a desire for >> the Cubs to >> sweep the series, which, in fact, they did. Sorry, Paul!!!! >> >> >> Folder with thumbnails >> http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=843433 >> >> >> >> Slideshow >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=843433 >> >> Cheers, Christine > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
