Swimming with Shark could be dangerous!

My friend.  The shark.

This past weekend was very productive. With regards to the best baseball road trip ever, that is!  It wasn't really all that productive in any other ways.  Birdie & I have successfully procured tickets to the Cubs @ Brewers game on Wednesday, June 6th.  We hadn't really planned on going to this game but it is after all on our way from South Haven, MI to the Twin Cities!  And it just so happens that I have a friend that owes me a favor - big surprise right?  This friend will absolutely want to remain anonymous so he will just be known as Shark.

Shark is a lawyer by trade but does a variety of other things as well.  And since he definitely will not want to be identified, I will leave it at that and not go into the fun and fascinating details about his many other pursuits.  The one pursuit that I do need to mention is that he is a huge Brewers fan.  Huge.  I know, weird, right?  Anyhoo, not only is he a huge Brewers fan but also happens to owe me $150 on some misguided football bets from this past season.  He actually owed me $300 but magically talked me into taking the Vikings over Green Bay - I'm pretty sure I had been drinking.  Actually, I'm positive. I was drinking.

Miller Park

Home of the Brewers

So as part of his repayment plan, I called in the "Hey Shark, I need tickets" favor.  And POOF!  we now have tickets to the Cubs/Brewers game.  When asked where the tickets were located, he said, "On my desk".  Arrrgg!  He knew darn well I meant where are our seats located!  But he is a wordsmith of sorts so I shouldn't have been surprised.  He claims to have an IQ of 169, which I usually believe.  Until, of course, he starts calling me 132, which I do not appreciate.  That's a story for another day - or another blog.  (Ha ha, it still cracks me up that I have a blog.)  Shark can't remember exactly where our seats are located because he has purchased so many tickets to so many games blah, blah, blah.  Show off.  But they are either Left field bleachers or Left field baseline.  The really amusing thing is he provided me with the names of the beer vendors in both of those sections.  The man is prepared if nothing else!  So we are either sitting in beer vendor "Bucksnort's" section or in beer vendor "Jerry's" section.  Priorities people! 

I also asked Shark to make a recommendation for a hotel.  I wanted something cheap but not dirty.  Seems like there is a joke in there somewhere...So he gave me the name of the hotel he usually stays at when he goes to games.  And he is coming to this game too - which ought to be really interesting  - we like to party.  So I called the hotel this morning to inquire about availability and price, etc.  I totally dropped Shark's name to see what would happen.  And it was actually kinda funny.  She's all "Ohh, well since you know Shark, we will give you the double room at the single room rate".  This worked out to be exactly $5.  Bahahaha!  It's good to have friends in low places.  I'm totally going with the assumption that she thinks we are prostitutes coming to "visit" Shark.  Not.